好像这曲广为大多JazzBand最爱,北美高中生唱乐团参加汇演时此曲的中选率颇高,演奏上怎么配器小号,萨克斯,xylophone,甚至钢琴都能妙不可言,和声演唱更能表现各声部的圆满动人。目前的音像资料里1960年版的Lamber Hendricks and Ross演绎的还是最经典的(也是本片背景音乐MP3)。每年夏季加拿大Montreal,Tonroto,Vancouver轮番举办的城市爵士音乐节全球的本地的爵士人或多或少的有能演绎,往往这一时刻最是台上台下共鸣一方时刻,自然带有时代的新元素。
这首经典爵士乐的歌词也别具一格:I heard me a sermonette Have you heard it yet?
With that soulful message that you won't soon forget
It tells about real true love people lost sight of
through their sinful livin' and scornin' Heaven above
It tells you to love one another, To feel that each man's your brother
Live right, 'cause you know that you reap (just) what you sew
And so to have no regrets, and to find what you're missin,
Bow your head and listen to this sermonette