Falling in Love with Love

"Falling in Love with Love"
Song from The Boys from Syracuse
Published	1938
Writer	Lorenz Hart
Composer	Richard Rodgers

"Falling in Love with Love" is a show tune from the Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys from Syracuse, where it was introduced by Muriel Angelus. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1938.^[1] The song is set to a waltz, but the lyrics "remind his [Hart] listeners of the show's skeptical tone".^[2]

Performances

In the 1940 musical film, it was performed by Allan Jones.

It was sung by Bernadette Peters in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) as the Stepmother.

Notable recordings

Helen Merrill - Helen Merrill (1955)
Wes Montgomery - Far Wes (1958)
Alma Cogan - With You in Mind (1961)
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Swings (1961)
Caterina Valente - Super-Fonics (1961)
Cliff Richard - 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds with Cliff Richard (1962)
Sheila Jordan - Portrait of Sheila (1963)
Andy Williams - Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests (1963)
Sergio Franchi - The Songs of Richard Rodgers (1965)^[3]
Franco Cerri - 12 bacchette per una chitarra (1966)
Eliane Elias - Illusions (1986)
Roseanna Vitro - Softly (1993)

References

↑ '"The Boys from Syracuse', 1938" lorenzhart.org, accessed June 23, 2011
↑ Hyland, William George.'The Boys from Syracuse'Richard Rodgers, Yale University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-300-07115-9, p. 120
↑ http://www.discogs.com Sergio Franchi

Rodgers and Hart

Musicals	The Garrick Gaieties Dearest Enemy The Girl Friend Peggy-Ann A Connecticut Yankee Present Arms Ever Green Simple Simon America's Sweetheart Jumbo On Your Toes Babes in Arms I'd Rather Be Right The Boys from Syracuse I Married an Angel Too Many Girls Higher and Higher Pal Joey By Jupiter

Songs	"Manhattan" "Mountain Greenery" "Here in My Arms" "Blue Room" "My Heart Stood Still" "Thou Swell" "To Keep My Love Alive" "You Took Advantage of Me" "With a Song in My Heart" "A Ship Without a Sail" "Dancing on the Ceiling" "Ten Cents a Dance" "He Was Too Good to Me" "I've Got Five Dollars" "Isn't It Romantic?" "Lover" "Mimi" "Blue Moon" "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "My Romance" "Little Girl Blue" "There's a Small Hotel" "Glad to Be Unhappy" "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" "Where or When" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "My Funny Valentine" "Johnny One Note" "The Lady Is a Tramp" "Have You Met Miss Jones?" "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" "Spring Is Here" "Falling in Love with Love" "This Can't Be Love" "Sing for Your Supper" "I Like to Recognize the Tune" "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" "Give It Back to the Indians" "You're Nearer" "It Never Entered My Mind" "I Could Write a Book" "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" "Ev'rything I've Got" "Wait till You See Her"

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, May 06, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.