‘I’ll sing at the drop of a hat’: Jeff Goldblum Honest playlist | Jeff Goldblum

The first song I learned to sing
When I was eight years old, my piano teacher Tommy Emil used to come to our house in Pittsburgh, and he was upset because I had never tried Beethoven’s Für Elise. Instead, I enjoyed doing jazz arrangements of Alley Cat, Stairway to the Stars and Deep Purple.

The first song I liked
My dad brought home Misty by Errol Garner, also from Pittsburgh and his favorite pianist. With his block tone and tone, he makes the piano sound like a whole orchestra, so I fell in love with it too.

The first single I bought
For Once in My Life by Stevie Wonder.

My favorite song to go to karaoke
I’ve never done much karaoke, although I do like to sing at the drop of a hat. We’re doing a version of (They Long to Be) Close to You with the Carpenters with our big 57-piece orchestra, which I really like.

I know every word of this song
We do Lover by Taylor Swift – “We can leave the Christmas lights on until January” – in our show. And of course I know all the lyrics to Ya Got Trouble from The Music Man.

The perfect song to play at a party
Don’t Worry ‘Bout a Thing by Stevie Wonder fills me with joy. Down to the Nightclub by Tower of Power is a real party song. I like There’s a Party at My House by Randy Newman and The Joint Is Jumpin’ by Fats Waller. And You Can’t Tell Author Chuck Berry – who Uma Thurman and John Travolta dance with in Pulp Fiction – puts me to shame.

The song that changed my life
When I sang Mona Lisa with Nat King Cole and Gregory Porter on The Graham Norton Show in 2017, I was offered a recording job, so it changed my life in a real way.

The best cooking song
Frim-Fram soup, covered by Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, but I like Diana Krall’s version: (Sings) “I want frim-fram soup with oss-en-fay / And a sauce on the side.” It’s great.

The song that wakes me up in the morning
My alarm clock radio was playing My Funny Valentine by Miles Davis which is the perfect thing to wake you up from a deep sleep.

A song that makes me cry
I’m an easy cryer when it comes to music. On the Culture of Noon by Max Richter, used at the end of Hamnet, made me cry a lot.

The most requested song
Well, people seem to like that time I sang my own song in Jurassic Park: “In Jurassic Park / Scary in the dark / I’m afraid I’m going to get eaten.”

Night Blooms by Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra is out June 5th. They visit 28 May to 30 June; The journey begins in Wolverhampton.