AND THIS IS MY BELOVED
From the Broadway Musical "Kismet" (1953)
(Music: Aleksandr Borodin -
Music Adaptation & Lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest)
Doretta Morrow, Alfred Drake & Richsrd Kiley (Broadway Production) - 1953
Jerry Vale (with Percy Faith & His Orch.) - 1953
Eddie Fisher (with Hugo Winterhalter & His Orch.) - 1954
Sarah Vaughan - 1954
Percy Faith & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1954
Ann Blyth, Howard Keel & Vic Damone (Film Soundtrack0 - 1955
Sammy Davis Jr. - 1955
Mario Lanza (with Jeff Alexander Choir) - 1956
Stanley Black & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1958
The Mastersounds with Wes Montgomery - 1958
Johnny mathis - 1959
Barbara McNair - 1959
Wayne King & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1959
Malcolm Vaughn - 1960
Etta Jones - 1961
Robert Goulet - 1961
Martin Denny & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1961
Grahame Laver, Elizabeth Harwood & Peter Grant - 1961
Jackie Wilson - 1962
John Gary - 1963
Gordon MacRae & Dorothy Kirsten - 1964
Adele Leigh, Kenneth McKeller & Robert Merrill with Mantovani & His Orch. - 1964
Gloria Lynne - 1964
Julie De Marco - 1964
Sergio Franchi - 1964
Alfred Drake & Lee Venora (Lincoln Centre Production) - 1965
Ray Conniff & His Singers - 1966
Jim Nabors - 1967
Peter Wynne - 1967
Norman Newell & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1968
Julie Andrews - 1977
Manuel & The Music of the Mountains (Instr.) - 1978
Samuel Ramey, Ruth Ann Swenson & Jerry Hadley - 1991
Richard Hayman & His Symphony Orch. (Instr.) - 1991
Lesley Garrett - 1992
Shelly Moore - 1995
Marie Michuda - 1999
Mary Ann Fosco - 2005
Patricia Welch - 2007
Katherine Jenkins - 2011
Siobhan Stagg - 2011
Also recorded by:
Moira Anderson; Michael Ball; Dave Rendall; Arthur Fiedler & Boston Pops Orch.;
Barry Crocker; Vaughn Meader; Julia Migenes-Johnson; Romantic Strings Orch.;
Gordon MacRae; Vic Damone; Melanie Holliday; Norman Luboff Choir; Liberace;
Richard Tucker; Don Shirley; Lorna King; ......... and many others.
Dawn's promising skies
Petals on a pool drifting
Imagine these in one pair of eyes
And this is my beloved
Strange spice from the south
Honey through the comb sifting
Imagine these on one eager mouth
And this is my beloved.
And when she speaks
And when she talks to me
Music! Mystery!
And when she moves
And when she walks with me
Paradise comes suddenly near
All that can stir, all that can stun
All that's for the heart's lifting
Imagine these in one perfect one
And this is my beloved
And this is my beloved
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As performed by ANN BLYTH, HOWARD KEEL
and VIC DAMONE in the 1955 MGM film "Kismet":
HK: Were his eyes grey, brown?
AB: His eyes were .....
Oh, Father, we talked only for a few moments
He touched my hand .....
HK: You'd say his eyes were
AB: Sometime bright
HK: But only sometime
AB: Often dark
HK: Well, that is plain
AB: Plain words can't tell the thrill
HK: Then tell it how you will
BLYTH:
Dawn's promising skies
Petals on a pool drifting
Imagine these in one pair of eyes
And this is my beloved
Strange spice from the south
Honey through the comb sifting
Imagine these on one eager mouth
And this is my beloved
DAMONE:
And when she speaks
And when she talks to me
Music! Mystery!
And when she moves
And when she walks with me
Paradise comes suddenly near
BLYTH:
All that can stir, all that can stun
All that's for the heart's lifting
Imagine these in one perfect one
And this is my beloved
BOTH: And this is my beloved
(Contributed by maritere1939 - June 2005)
(Updated by Mel Priddle - June 2014)
