ASY TO LOVE
From the film "Born To Dance" (1936)
(Cole Porter)

James Stewart & Marjorie Lane (as the singing voice of Eleanor Powell - Film
Soundtrack) - 1936
Frances Langford (Film Soundtrack) - 1936
Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orch. (vocal: Dick Robertson) - 1936
Frances Langford (with Tommy Dorsey & His Orch.) - 1936
Teddy Wilson & His Orch. (vocal: Billie Holiday) - 1936
Ray Noble & His Orch. (vocal: Al Bowlly) - 1936
Josephine Baker - 1937
Maxine Sullivan - 1937
Lee Wiley - 1940
Mildred Bailey - 1941
Artie Shaw & His Orch. - 1944
Bing Crosby - 1947
Beryl Booker - 1947
Laurence Melchior (feat. in the film "This Time for Keeps") - 1947
Lionel Hampton & His Orch. - 1950
Billie Holiday - 1952
Tony Martin (feat. in the film "Easy To Love") - 1953
Erroll Garner (Instr.) - 1953
Carmen McRae - 1954
Sammy Davis Jr. - 1955
Ella Fitzgerald - 1956
Doris Day - 1958
Anita O'Day (with Billy May & His Orch.) - 1959
Shirley Bassey - 1959
Frank Sinatra - 1961
Sarah Vaughan - 1961
Dakota Staton - 1961
Stan Kenton & His Orch. - 1962
Morgana King - 1964
Julie London - 1965
Marian McPartland - 1976
Howard McGillin (feat. in the Broadway Show "Anything Goes") - 1987
Susannah McCorkle - 1996
Harry Connick, Jr. - 1998
Danielle Westphal - 2002
Marlene VerPlanck - 2003
Kevin Kline (feat. in the film "De-Lovely") - 2004
Roberta Gambarini - 2006
Fay Claassen - 2007
Patricia Barber - 2007
Joanna Pascale - 2008

Also recorded by:
Tony Bennett; Judy Garland; Johnny Mathis; Dave Brubeck;
Charlie Parker; Hank Mobley; Sonny Stitt; Oscar Peterson;
Steve Allen; 101 Strings; George Shearing; Benny Goodman;
Jack McDuff; Al Hirt; Chet Baker; Dick Hyman; Earl Hines;
Maynard Ferguson..........and many others.



JAMES STEWART:
I know too well that I'm just wasting precious time
In thinking such a thing could be
That you could ever care for me
I'm sure you hate to hear that I adore you, dear
But grant me just the same
I'm not entirely to blame.....

For you'd be so easy to love
So easy to idolize, all others above
So sweet to waken with
So nice to sit down to eggs and bacon with

We'd be so grand at the game
So carefree together that it does seem a shame
That you can't see your future with me
'Cause you'd be oh, so easy to love

ELEANOR POWELL (Dubbed by Marjorie Lane):
So worth the yearning for
So swell to keep any homefire burning for
Oh, how we'll bloom, how we'll thrive
In a cottage for two, or even three, four or five
So can't you see your future with me
'Cause they'd be oh, so easy to love


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As recorded by Frances Langford with Tommy Dorsey's Orch:


You'd be so easy to love
So easy to idolize, all others above
So worth the yearning for
So swell to keep the homefires burning for

We'd be, we'd be so grand at the game
So carefree together that it does seem a shame
That you can't see your future with me
'Cause you'd be oh, so easy to love

You'd be, you'd be so easy to love
So easy to idolize, all others above
You'd be so worth the yearning for
And, honey, you'd be so swell to keep ev'ry little homefire burning for

We'd be, we'd be so grand at the game
So carefree together that it does seem a shame
That you can't see your future with me
'Cause you'd be oh, so easy to love

Ah-hah-ah
Ah-hah, so easy to love


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(Transcriptions by Mel Priddle - December 2010)