George Benson ft Patti Austin Moodys Mood for Love ( Warner Bros. Records 1980)

Moody s Mood for Love is jazz saxophonist James Moody s 1949 instrumental solo based on Jimmy McHugh s 1935 song I m in the Mood for Love with lyrics later added by Eddie Jefferson. In 1952, jazz singer Eddie Jefferson wrote lyrics to this improvisation by Moody, a practice known as vocalese. This particular arrangement of the song did not come to be known by its now common title of Moody s Mood for Love until King Pleasure released a very popular vocal version in 1954. Following King Pleasure s succ br, br,