All of me and Analani E

[Stanislav Paskalev]

I was watching a video on the history of the steel guitar and a guy played a song called Analani E. This is basically the melody for the jazz standard All of me, if not note by note than pretty close at least. I wonder which came first.

Cheers!

[Brett Lanier]

Here's a pretty great version with Jerry Byrd and Barney Isaacs trading back and forth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5_N8d_FSrQ

The first three notes of the melody are the same, but not much after that. Two other songs that are very similar are Django's Nuages and Sand by Jerry Byrd.

[Brad Bechtel]

According to huapala.org, Analani E was copyrighted in 1941.

All of Me was written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons in 1931.