Stephen Chatman's
Eight Love Songs for High Baritone Voice, Violin, Violoncello and Piano (formerly known as
Love Songs) was commissioned in 2010 by MusicFest Vancouver for renowed Canadian baritone, Tyler Duncan, and Australia's pre-eminent chamber music ensemble Freshwater Trio. Chatman's subsequent arrangement for baritone and piano includes five of the original eight songs. Tara Wohlberg's lyrics, full of inner rhymes and wit, explore far ranging aspects of love, such as tenderness, Schubert and his song
Gretchen am Spinnrade, some
Hanky-panky, and the wrong and right moves of
Mr. Smooth. The contrasting musical settings typify Chatman's eclectic panoply of classical and popular musical styles, from Ragtime and Tango to Neo-Romanticism.
The composer subsequently arranged the present song Something like that for female voice and piano. The words differ somewhat between the versions for male and female voice.