SERENADE (COME BACK)
(Enrico Toselli / R.H. Elkin)

John McCormack - 1915
Efram Zimbalist - 1921

Also recorded by: Josef Locke; José Carreras; Herman Chittison;
Frank Patterson; Edmundo Ros & His Orch; London Promenade Orch;
Daniela Dessì & Fabio Armiliato; Benjamino Gigli; Leslie Day.


Like a golden dream in my heart, ever smiling
Lives the image fair of happy love I knew in days gone by
Still I seem to hear your laughter beguiling
Still to see the joy
The love light beaming from your radiant eye

Can my dreaming be in vain
Will my love ne'er come again? Ah come!
Shall we waste the golden hours of youth far apart
What care I for life without you by my side

Do not delay, the hours slip away
Your arms are my paradise
You and only you can fill my heart

Oh, star of my heaven
Come back and shed your light upon my way
Come back! Come back!


(Contributed/Transcribed by Bill Huntley - January 2006)


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ORIGINAL ITALIAN:


SERENATA (RIMPIANTO)
(Enrico Toselli / Alfredo Silvestri)

Isaac Salinas


Come un sogno d'or
scolpito è nel core
Il ricordo ancor' di quell'amor
che non esiste più

Fu la sua vision
qual dolce sorriso
che più lieta fa,
col suo brillar, la nostra gioventù

Ma fu molto breve in me
la dolcezza di quel ben svani
quel bel sogno d'or
lasciando in me il dolor.

Cupo è l'avvenir sempre più tristi
i di la gioventù passata
sarà rimpianto
mi resta sol
sì rimpianto amaro e duol' nel cor!

Oh raggio di sole
Sul mio cammino ahimè non brii li più
Mai più, mai più


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TOSELLI'S SERENADE (DREAMS AND MEMORIES)
(Enrico Toselli / Carl Sigman)

Perry Como - 1966


Dreams and memories,
Are all that you've left me,
Only lonely thoughts,
About the one I worship and adore!

Dreams and memories,
Are what I must live with,
Sad remembering,
Of golden moments that exist no more!

Lovin' arms to hold me tight,
And your lips to kiss goodnight,
A love that seemed " Oh so right!"
And yet, somehow, went wrong!

Dreams and memories,
The moonlight on your hair,
Songs that we sang,
That feeling we shared whenever a church bell rang!

Oh, the memories and dreams of you!

I can't live without you . . .
I'll keep on praying you come back to me,
To me . . . to me!


(Contributed by Bill Huntley - January 2006)


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TRIVIA: The music was composed in 1900, when Enrico Toselli was just
16 years old, under the title "Serenata for Violin and Piano, Op. 6".