You Made Me Love You by James V. Monaco

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 8

Form: A Section → B Section → A Section → C Section → A Section → B Section → A Section → C 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 – Em7 – E♭m7
  I – iii7 – biii7
• Dm7 – G7 (×3)
  ii7 – V7
• C
  I

B Section 1

• A7 – D7 – Am7 – D7 – Dm7 – G7 – Gaug7
  VI7 – II7 – vi7 – II7 – ii7 – V7 – V+7

A Section 2

• C – Em7 – E♭m7
  I – iii7 – biii7
• Dm7 – G7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• Dm7 – Baug7 – E7
  ii7 – VII+7 – III7

C Section 1

• A7 – D7 – Am7 – D7 – C/G – G♯dim7 – Am7 – Dm7 – F7 – C – Fm6 – C6
  VI7 – II7 – vi7 – II7 – I⁶₄ – #v°7 – vi7 – ii7 – IV7 – I – iv6 – I6

A Section 3

Same chords as A Section 1.

B Section 2

Same chords as B Section 1.

A Section 4

Same chords as A Section 2.

C Section 2

Same chords as C Section 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gaug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Fm6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.

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.