Frankie Laine - "If I Never Sing Another Song"

[KeithAbbott1]

what a great voice full of feeling and emotion,singers like Frankie Laine have a natural ability to perform songs they dont just learn their lines they live the moment !Thankyou for the recording.......Keith Abbott (you tube)

[JadeTomZ]

an original voice Frankie holds his place in the line of fine singers.

[markalson1938]

@JadeTomZ Yes, Frankie was one of a kind, One of the finest men I ever met there will never be another like him

[donkiddick08]

the best version of this i've heard is by shirley bassey, not the one on the side panel but, the live version from a concert in 1980 in holland.

[davidwalsh66]

check out the dorothy squires version it is superb

[1billwill]

one great singer excellant

[river2walk]

It appears that everyone in the music business recorded this great song, there seems to be more versions coming to light every week...most of them like this one are strangely touching, but Matt monro's rendition seems to be the standard by which all the other versions are measured..none so far successfully.

[151166diane]

Frankie didnt do a bad job of this song, but there is only one person who sings this the best ever and that is Matt Monro

[ljliljohn]

Check out the Matt Monro version.

[markalson1938]

@ljliljohn

Yes, Matt had a very good version of this song along with Don Cornell.

[johnnyboyke]

this young guy also likes Franky ,with his wonderfull and special intonations when he sings ,with a beautyfull voice that he had and some lovely songs.

[Shrinksjp]

The English words to this were written for Connie Francis by Don Black. She closes every show with it.

[peejay33950]

This is on an album called Something OldSomething New,also there ae some other rareties like Evergreen and Old Enough To Be Your Father

[jackocloud]

what agreat version of this song 5

[highnrising]

When I first heard this, it immediately brought to mind "Yesterday, When I Was Young"--which was translated from French.

I guess there's a style to these European language songs that comes through.

[nitwit02]

Udo records and writes in a number of languages - he is fluently multi-lingual. He recorded the song himself first (in English) and passed it to Frank when they met on a plane. This record was recorded and released by Polydor in London on the album "Life is Beautiful".

PS. Udo is very good - check him out here on youtube.

[highnrising]

Unbelievable--

Where do you find this stuff?--I've never heard this.

Frankie definitely became a more personally expressive singer in his later years. In his Columbia Records heyday, you had the sense that he was playing a character that didn't necessarily have any connection to the man himself. But this is really expressive.

What were the circumstances that got CBS Records to issue this? FL was long-gone from the Columbia-CBS label by 1981 and they had taken his records out of print.

[markalson1938]

I have no idea why CBS put out the single. I would guess that he still had friends at Cplumbia. It was first on his Polydor album

"Life Is Beautiful" in England. I think he was going to put out on a single for his Score lable which as little distubution and CBS offered to do it.

Now with this song, You have the same split between Frankie's Jazz Fans and his Dramatic

singing styles. I always favored the Dramatic

but that's just my taste

[nitwit02]

Thiswas written by Austrian composer/singer Udo Jurgens who passed it to Frank.

A great song!

[markalson1938]

Udo sings in German so I guess he would write

that way. did he do the english words to the song or did some one else translate them.