I Wanna Be Loved by You by Herbert Stothart & Harry Ruby

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 3

Form: A Section → A Section → B Section

Where these chords come from: a lead sheet of this public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive and preserved in the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). It describes the song as written, not any particular recording. This page shows that lead sheet as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

A Section 1

• C – Caug – Baug – B♭7 – A7 – D7 – G7 – C♯dim – G7 – C – D7 – G7
  I – I+ – VII+ – bVII7 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – #i° – V7 – I – II7 – V7

A Section 2

• C – Caug – Baug – B♭7 – A7 – D7 – G7 – C♯dim – G7 – C7 – F
  I – I+ – VII+ – bVII7 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – #i° – V7 – I7 – IV

B Section

• Fm – C – Am7 – C7 – F – Am7/E – D7 – G7 – Baug – B♭ – A9 – D7 – G7
  iv – I – vi7 – I7 – IV – vi⁴₃ – II7 – V7 – VII+ – bVII – VI9 – II7 – V7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Baug (VII+) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Fm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to F.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.
• Section names: detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases; a phrase that comes back keeps its letter). Lead sheets rarely print section names.
• The sheet has D.C./D.S. jump markings (go back to the start or a sign); those repeats aren't written out here, so part of the song may be played more times than shown.
• Not verified: only one lead sheet of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.