She gives a wistful version of the title song, but her Irma is more EastEnders than Montmatre.

The entire first half turns out to be a wistful version of how Matthew would have liked to expose the affair of his wife, as told to his therapist Frank (whose role can be played by a man or woman).

The closing track on Ms. Faithfull's new album, "Kissin Time," is a wistful version of "I'm Into Something Good," the cheery 1964 hit by Herman's Hermits.

Terence Stamp's wistful blue eyes, so memorable for their look of martyred innocence in the 1962 screen version of "Billy Budd," will now be remembered in a distinctly different way.

Using question-answer pairs of melody lines and arpeggios that implied tonal harmonies but not a fixed tonal center, with each phrase looking back no further than the one before it, "Trinity" was like a slow, wistful version of a Coleman improvisation that had been purged of the blues.

This week, we're happy to welcome talented saxophonist Kenny G and his wistful version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."

The sweeping, grand and wistful version (2:46) featured in the film's opening title sequence and on the soundtrack LP is in the key of B and has a single vocal track.

His standards segment included a desolate, disbelieving "Blue Skies" and a wistful but deft version of "Stardust" in which he landed precisely on every note of the tricky melody.

Nobody puts a more vivacious spin on Cole Porter than Mr. Short, whose new show includes a boyishly wistful version of "Why Shouldn't I?"

But when Ms. Sullivan croons a sweetly wistful version of "People," standing beside the piano, it revolves around the words, "We're children needing other children."