LAST NIGHT WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
Written for the film "Metroplitan" (1935)
(Lyrics: E. Yip Harburg / Music: Harold Arlen)

Lawrence Tibbett - 1935
Judy Garland - 1949
Gordon MacRae - 1951
Frank Sinatra - 1954
Victor Young & His Singing Strings (Instr.) - 1935
Carmen McRae - 1955
Peggy Lee - 1956
The Hi-Lo's - 1956
Judy Garland - 1956 (Re-recording)
Art Farmer (Instr.) - 1957
Janet Blair (TV Transcript) - 1958
Sarah Vaughan - 1959
Tony Bennett - 1959
Vic Damone - 1962
Johnny Nash - 1964
Frank Sinatra - 1965 (Re-recording)
Johnny Mathis (TV Transcript) - 1973
Mel Tormé - 1985

Also recorded by:
Carly Simon; Margaret Whiting; Eileen Farrell; Julie Wilson; Cheryl Bentine; 
Bill Charlap; Jimmy Raney; George Shearing; Liza Pulman; Katie Eagleson;
Sylvia McNair; Mark Murphy; Helen Merrill; Stefanie Powers; Nancy Marano;
Steve Allen; Clare Fischer ......... and many others.





As recorded by LAWRENCE TIBBETT with Nat Shilkret & His Orch., 
9th October 1935 (for inclusion in the 1935 film "Metropolitan", but not used):


Last night when we were young
Love was a star, a song unsung
Life was so new, so real so right
Ages ago last night

Today the world is old
You flew away and time grew cold
Where is that star that shone so bright
Ages ago last night

To think that spring had depended
On merely this, a look, a kiss
To think that something so splendid
Could slip away in one little daybreak

So now, let's reminisce
And recollect the sighs and the kisses
The arms that clung
When we were young last night

(Instrumental Break)

To think that spring had depended
On merely this, a look, a kiss
To think that something so splendid
Could slip away in one little daybreak

So now, let's reminisce
And recollect the sighs and the kisses
The arms that clung
When we were young last night


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2018)