"With a Song in My Heart" (Leslie Hutchinson, 1930)

From Rodgers & Hart's "Spring is Here", this song became an enormous hit instantly and was recorded by many of that vibrant era's finest artists--here's Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson superb solo performance. Notes on the song follow the lyrics:

WITH A SONG IN MY HEART

Though I know that we meet ev'ry night
and we couldn't have change since the last time,
to my joy and delight,
it's a new kind of love at first sight.
Though it's you and it's I all the time
ev'ry meeting's marvelous pastime.
You're increasingly sweet,
so whenever we happened to met
I greet you ...


With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face.
Just a song at the start
but it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that your're standing near, and ..
At the sound of your voice
heaven opens his portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
that a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
with a song in my heart for you.

With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face.
Just a song at the start
but it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that your're standing near, and ..
At the sound of your voice
heaven opens his portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
that a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
with a song in my heart for you.

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From Wiki:

With A Song in My Heart" is a show tune from the 1929 Rodgers and Hart musical Spring is Here.

In the original Broadway production it was introduced by John Hundley and Lillian Taiz. The following year, it was sung in the Hollywood musical version of that show by Bernice Claire and Frank Albertson.

In 1933, it was included in a two-reel version of the film re-titled Yours Sincerely, part of the Broadway Brevities series, starring Lanny Ross.

In the 1944 Hollywood musical This Is the Life, it was sung by Donald O'Connor and Susanna Foster. It was included in the 1948 musical film, Words and Music, a biography of Rodgers and Hart, where it was sung by Perry Como.

It was also heard, sung by Doris Day, in the 1950 Hollywood musical Young Man with a Horn. In the 1951 Hollywood musical Painting the Clouds with Sunshine it was sung by Dennis Morgan and Lucille Norman.

It was the title song in the 1952 Hollywood musical With a Song in My Heart, a biographical movie about Jane Froman, in which it was sung by Froman on the soundtrack for Susan Hayward.

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[LKayL]

Brilliant, I'm a great fan of Hutch! I like the photograph.

[RReady555]

Grand, Lorna! He was an amazing entertainer--found the photo via "Google Images" and re-cropped it for the video...

Best wishes,

-Robert

[mrdee11091]

cheers thank you

[RReady555]

Glad you enjoy it, too, Paul--"Hutch" was an amazing entertainer.

Best,

-RR

[roybo1930]

OMG! This is just FANTASTIC!!! So smooth! & Romantic!!

[Oxfordclassicjazz]

What a voice - so dark and beguiling, soft as a velvet smoking jacket...

[peteatrov231]

No! it's awful! slurry

[rlneesam]

Superb A great singer interpreting a great song.

[voglesque89]

Rodgers & Hart = the best

[1ampixie]

I love all of your stuff RReady555!!!

PLEASE don't stop the music....