LOVER


Jeanette MacDonald (Film Soundtrack) - 1932
Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (vocal: Jack Fulton) - 1933
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - 1933
Greta Keller - 1933
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - 1945
Gene Krupa & His Orch. (vocal: Anita O'Day) - 1945
Louis Armstrong & His All Stars - 1947
Les Paul (Instr.) - 1948
Frank Sinatra - 1950
Peggy Lee - 1952
Ella Fitzgerald - 1956
The Dorsey Brothers Orch. - 1956
Les Brown & His Band Of Renown - 1956
Duane Eddy (Instr.) - 1959
Anita O'Day - 1960
Frank Sinatra - 1961
Cliff Richard - 1961
Joni James - 1962
Brenda Lee - 1963
The Supremes - 1967
Tony Bennett - 1973

Also recorded by: Keely Smith; Merle Travis & Joe Maphis;
Art Tatum; Jack Teagarden; Charlie Ventura; Stan Kenton;
Marlene Ver Planck; Margaret Whiting; Mary Lou Williams;
The Three Suns; Billy Taylor; Lawrence Welk; Sonny Stitt;
Liberace; Rise Stevens; Hugh Thompson; Leslie Hutchinson;
Oscar Peterson; Paula West; Max Roach; Carmen Cavallaro;
Woody Herman; Glenn Miller; Dudley Moore; Deanna Durbin;
Harry James; The Peddlers; Flip Phillips; Bert Kaempfert;
Monty Sunshine; Charlie Parker; Buddy Merrill; Don Lee;
Count Basie; Bob Crosby; Sam Butera; Errol Garner Trio;
Kai Winding; Lesley Garrett; ......... and many others.

also sung by Deanna Durbin in the Universal film 'Because Of Him' 1946
Director: Richard Wallace
Leads: Deanna Durbin / Charles Laughton / Franchot Tone






From the film "Love Me Tonight" - 1932
(Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)

Lover, when I'm near you
And I hear you, speak my name
Softly, in my ear you breathe a flame

Lover, when we're dancing
Keep on glancing in my eyes
Till loves own entrancing music dies

All of my future is in you
You're every plan I design
Promise you'll always continue
To be mine

Lover, please be tender
When you're tender, fears depart
Lover, I surrender to my heart

(Orchestral Interlude)

Lover, it's immoral
But why quarrel with our bliss
When two lips of coral want to kiss

I say the devil is in you
And to resist you, I try
But if you didn't continue
I would die

Lover, please be tender
When you're tender, fears depart
Lover, I surrender to my heart


(Contributed by Bill Huntley - December 2004)