Richard says I'm right

[koganbot]

My brother, Richard, says I'm right in insisting that the third chord in "Heart And Soul" is ii not IV. This pertains to a discussion I had somewhere with Dave (on a "Friday" comment thread, I believe). I think that if you play IV rather than ii it's just not "Heart And Soul."

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Heart and Soul" (Joy Division song), 1980
"Heart and Soul" (1938 song), a 1938 popular song by Frank Loesser and Hoagy Carmichael which has been recorded by many artists
"Heart and Soul" (T'Pau song), 1987
"Heart and Soul" (Huey Lewis and the News song), a 1983 song by Exile, covered by Huey Lewis and the News
"Heart and Soul" (Kenny G composition), 2010
"Heart and Soul", a song by New Zealand band The Narcs
"Heart & Soul" (No Sweat song), an Irish number one single by No Sweat
"Heart and Soul", a single from the 1987 Monkees album Pool It!
"Heart and Soul", a song by British band Embrace from the B-side to "I Can't Come Down"
"Heart + Soul", a song by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from their 2003 album Take Them On, On Your Own
"Daitan ni Ikimasho Heart & Soul", a 2004 single by Nami Tamaki, included in her 2005 album Make Progress
Heart & Soul, a song by British band, Dakota on their album of the same title

[koganbot]

This means there is more than one possible route to the third chord being ii.

[beardedtraveler.livejournal.com]

Funny, I always thought Exile had covered Huey.
Never bothered to check copyrights.

As far as different songs sharing a title, there's
a LOTTTT of songs called "Heartbreaker."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i c&pd that list straight from wikipedia so i can't vouch for its actual correctness in any particular

Carmichael has it both ways

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

In the Hoagy Carmichael version here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8CSjDC18b0

First verse is I-vi-ii-V, then second verse is I-vi-IV-V.

The popularization of the particular piano exercise that lots of beginners use (which is definitely I-vi-IV-V, even if that makes it technically "Not-Heart-and-Soul" -- usually C-A-F-G, with first and major third in right hand) would guess is a bastardization of the iconic scene in Big:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KosJK_ZMMu0

Which is indeed I-vi-ii-V. But I-vi-IV-V, despite its inaccuracy, is still easier on piano, has the same distance from C-A-F, then up one note for G.

Well

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

That's a big band arrangement OF the Carmichael tune. (IV is often interchangeable with ii-7, which includes the IV triad.)

Here's some dolt perpetuating the wrong way to play "Heart and Soul." We can call it "Seart and Hole."

http://youtu.be/sNNDsgL-PEY