There'll Be Some Changes Made

This article is about the song written in 1921. For the 1972 album by Jaki Byard, see There'll Be Some Changes Made (album).
"There'll Be Some Changes Made"
Song
LanguageEnglish
Published1921 Harry H. Pace
1924 Edward B. Marks Music Corporation
Songwriter(s)Composer: Benton Overstreet
Lyricist: Billy Higgins

"There'll Be Some Changes Made" ("Changes") is a popular song by Benton Overstreet (composer) and Billy Higgins [1][2][a] (lyricist). Published in 1921, the song has flourished in several genres, particularly jazz. The song has endured for as many years as a jazz standard.[3] According to the online The Jazz Discography (an index of jazz-only recordings), "Changes" had been recorded 404 times as of May 2018.[4] The song and its record debut were revolutionary, in that the songwriters (Overstreet and Higgins, the original copyright publisher, Harry Herbert Pace, the vocalist to first record it (Ethel Waters), the owners of Black Swan (the record label), the opera singer (Elizabeth Greenfield) for whom the label was named, and the musicians on the recording led by Fletcher Henderson, were all African American. The production is identified by historians as a notable part of the Harlem Renaissance.[5]

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