We Three

Charles and his P-51 Mustang,
"We Three" in England, 1944

I don't know whether I should credit Charles or Paul McCartney for this discovery.  As all things Charles go, he shows me to the most interesting, sometimes useless but always absolutely priceless gifts.  A few weeks ago I was trolling though iTunes looking for something new and I stumbled on the new Paul McCartney album.  He was so cool on the Grammy's I thought I'd give it a listen.  It was all okay, a bunch of cool reboots of old songs and then track number six made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.  I'd never heard it before and when I looked at the title, I teared up - We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me).  I'm going with Charles showed me this by way of Paul McCartney.  How could I not?

I looked it up and it turns out that this song was originally recorded and made popular by Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra with Frank Sinatra on vocals in 1940.  Now, I know that Charles named his plane, We Three, for his little family, but it made me wonder...  Everything I've learned about him and his character leads me to believe that he knew this song and that it might have played some small part.  If you click on the link and take a listen, it's a little sad and eerie -  We Three, we'll wait for you, even til eternity, my echo, my shadow and me, we'll be there waiting.  Spooky.