This is one of those jazz standards which normally gets belted out at gale force. This is the original, much more restrained (and better).
But I think emotion still gets the better of him in the last chorus: he drops the "s" off of "loves", making it sound much more like Ebonics, which is probably what he would have spoken growing up in Harlem. I love accents, I think they're fascinating - Zadie Smith wrote a fantastic essay about our attitudes to accent.
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