What A Difference A Day Made

Jamie Cullum recorded this song for Twentysomething, his 2003 Universal debut that became the fastest selling jazz album in UK chart history and made him a fixture on British television. The song is a Spanish bolero by María Grever from 1934, and Dinah Washington's 1959 version was the one that made it a standard. Cullum's take keeps the swing but adds his own piano stabs and a youthful rush. Couples choose it because the lyric is about the single day everything changed, which is the point of a wedding, and because a British name on a jazz standard sits well with UK guests. He was in his early twenties when he recorded it.