Deborah Harry - Prelude To A Kiss

Originally by Ella Fitzgerald
Written by: Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon and Irving Mills
From the "Prelude to a Kiss" soundtrack (1992)

If you hear a song in blue like a flower crying for the dew
That was my heart serenading you my prelude to a kiss

If you hear a song that grows from my tender sentimental woes
That was my heart trying to compose a prelude to a kiss

Though it's just a simple melody with nothing fancy
Nothing much you could turn it to a symphony
A Schubert tune with a Gershwin touch

Oh how my love song gently cries for the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss

Oh how my love song gently cries for the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss

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• Prelude
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• kiss
• 1992
• ella
• fitzgerald
• blondie
• debbie
• duke
• ellington
• irving
• gordon
• mills

[sunmarsjupiter]

This song is from the hilarious movie Prelude To A Kiss.  Great chemistry between Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan. Great message in the story.

[Nighthawk5210]

Prelude to a Kiss is an odd little movie that I don't think many people paid attention to, but Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan were really good in it, BUT my favorite thing about the movie was Debbie Harry's version of this song--it's not an easy song to pull off, but Harry does a fantastic job of it and the arrangement is sublime.

[deneicy]

Reminded me of the less familiar "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing."

[zzinglish53]

This is a movie that when it's on I can never not watch it because I recall that removed from the world and all it's woes feeling as the credits are rolling & Deborah Harry's earthy & sophisticated voice works it's magic in that space created by the wonderful palpable joyous tension between Meg and Alec Baldwin, and even Uncle Julius with his great speech, and next time I'm gonna floss too...

[Knit1For1Life]

This movie was amazing! I really lived Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan performance, specially that shot when he asks "fake" Rita where is the "real" Rita. His tears touched me and looked so real.

[shebop01]

You are so right. I love it when singers whom you would normally not expect to do a bang up job singing a classic jazz song surprise you with an outstanding performance. Ellington's classic "Prelude to a Kiss" is such a gorgeous song and has been done by every female jazz vocalist, and Deborah Harry knocks it out of the park. I believe that is Toots Thielemans on Harmonica...so beautiful.

[kissesmylove]

wonderfull!!!