Nobody Else but Me by Oscar Hammerstein & Jerome Kern

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 28 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D 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

• Cmaj7 – F7 – Em7 – A7
  Imaj7 – IV7 – iii7 – VI7
• Dm7 – G7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• C♯m7 – F♯7 – Bmaj7
  #i7 – #IV7 – VIImaj7

B Section

• F♯m7 – B7 – Emaj7 – Fdim7 – Bmaj7/F♯ – E♭7/G – Am7 – D7 – Dm7
  #iv7 – VII7 – IIImaj7 – iv°7 – VIImaj⁴₃ – bIII⁶₅ – vi7 – II7 – ii7

C Section

• G7 – Cmaj7 – F7 – Em7 – A7 – Dm7 – G7 – Dm7 – E7 – Am7 – A♭7 – Gm7
  V7 – Imaj7 – IV7 – iii7 – VI7 – ii7 – V7 – ii7 – III7 – vi7 – bVI7 – v7

D Section

• C7 – Fmaj7 – Fm7 – B♭7 – Cmaj7 – A7 – D7 – D♭7 – Cmaj7 – C♯dim7 – Dm7 – D♯dim7 – Dm7 – A♭7 – G7 – C6
  I7 – IVmaj7 – iv7 – bVII7 – Imaj7 – VI7 – II7 – bII7 – Imaj7 – #i°7 – ii7 – #ii°7 – ii7 – bVI7 – V7 – I6

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Fm7 (iv7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• A7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm7.
• E7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am7.
• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to Fmaj7.

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.
• 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.