Love Is On The Air Tonight
From the film "Varsity Show" (1937)
(Music: Richard A. Whiting /Lyrics: Johnny Mercer)


Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Poley McClintock, Tom Waring, 
with Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians (Film Soundtrack) - 1937
Dick Powell (with the Louis Forbes Orchestra) - 1937





Up in Maine or on the Western Plain
Makes no diff'rence where you go
Cinderella and her fellah
Have the parlour lights turned low
Listening to the radio

Love is on the air tonight
And it's on a heart-to-heart hook-up
Love is ev'rywhere tonight
Better look your cosiest nook up
Each station throughout the nation
Will have a song coming through
So, if your set works, the major networks
Will do your wooing for you

You should never sing to her
If a song is not up your alley
You may sound like Bing to her
But suppose she likes Rudy Vallée
If some crooner from old Altuna
Can tell her better than you
Why should you care
Long as love is on the air tonight

(Orchestral Interlude)

You should never sing to her
If a song is not up your alley
You may sound like Bing to her
But suppose she likes Rudy Vallée
If some crooner from old Altuna
Can tell her better than you
Why should you care
Long as love is on the air tonight







(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2011)