Sung by Mario Lanza, American tenor Sung by Vera Lynn, British pop singer The Loveliest Night of the Year Musical adaptation by Irving Aaronson English lyrics by Paul Francis Webster 1950 When you are in love / It’s the love-li-est night of the year / Stars twin-kle a-bove / And yo...
Most famously sung by Vera Lynn, ‘White Cliffs of Dover’ is a song yearning for peace in a time of war. Lynn’s voice, with the promise of ‘love and laughter’ and ‘peace ever after’, vows that in a time of darkness, something good will eventually happen. Dame Vera Lynn 'The ...
From the wiki: “‘The More I See You’ was originally recorded by Dick Haymes in 1945, and sung by Haymes in the filmDiamond Horseshoe(1945). Other early recordings were made by Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin and Doris Day before the song hit theBillboardHot 100 in 1966. ...
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Written by Waters, sung by Wright and inspired by Ibiza (the setting for the filmMore), “Green is the Colour” is the kind of pretty ballad that probably took more thought and work than its easy-going nature would have you expect. But does the tin whistle have to be there?
Sung by Gene Kelly, American singer (born 1912) You Were Meant for Me Music by Nacio Herb Brown Lyrics by Arthur Freed From the 1929 musical film “The Broadway Melody” Lyrics: Life was a song, you came along I’ve laid awake the whole night through ...
“Don’t Leave Me This Way” first took shape in 1975 in a more modest arrangement, as a Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes song sung by Teddy Pendergrass. Pendergrass’s tender vocals keep the songs as two distinct components—a verse and a chorus separated neatly by scale and intensity. ...
Interestingly(because of its political implications during WWII: Rommel’s Afrikakorps,other than capturing the Suez Canal, was also fighting for the return ofthe former German colonies in Africa), it was a song sung by the “DeutscheSchutztruppe” in German East Africa (now Tanzania) under Ge...
sung in Hindi, a counterpoint to the dominance of English in the country, which was the language of the British elite but also a major barrier for many Indians seeking upward mobility. Though the song's date of composition is unknown, the version sung during the Salt March was created by ...
“Don’t Leave Me This Way” first took shape in 1975 in a more modest arrangement, as a Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes song sung by Teddy Pendergrass. Pendergrass’s tender vocals keep the songs as two distinct components—a verse and a chorus separated neatly by scale and intensity. ...