SPEAK LOW
From the Broadway Musical "One Touch Of Venus" (1943)
(Ogden Nash - Kurt Weill)
Recorded by:
Mary Martin & Kenny Baker (Broadway Production) - 1943
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians (vocal: Billy Leach) - 1943
Eileen Wilson (dubbing for Ava Gardner) & Dick Haymes (Film
Production) - 1948
Janet Blair & Russell Nype (TV Production) - 1955
Monty Alexander, Laurindo Almeida, Desi Arnaz, Chet Baker, Gato Barbieri, Tony Bennett, Walter Bishop Jr., Dee Dee Bridgewater, Les Brown, Charlie Byrd, Benny Carter, King Cole Trio, John Coltrane, Ray Conniff,
Vic Damone, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Buddy DeFranco, Johnny Desmond, Dimi Nuendo,
Jimmy Dorsey, Bill Evans, Percy Faith, Ferrante & Teicher,
Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Freshmen, Stan Getz,
Jackie Gleason, Dolores Gray, Grant Green, Roy Hamilton,
Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Dick Haymes,
Ted Heath, The Hi-Lo’s, Billie Holiday, Hank Jones,
Stan Kenton, Barney Kessel, EArtha Kitt, Lee Konitz,
Kay Kyser, Cleo Laine, Mario Lanza, Peggy Lee,
Lotte Lenya, Guy Lombardo, Shelly Manne, Mary Martin,
Carmen McRae, Ethel Merman, Glenn Miller,
Vaughn Monroe, Gerry Mulligan, Anthony Newley,
Jessye Norman, Anita O’Day, Patti Page, Max Roach,
Smokey Robinson, Annie Ross, Feorge Shearing,
Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Barbra Streisand,
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Warren,
Kurt Weill, Margaret Whiting…………….And Many More.
Speak low when you speak, love,
Our summer day withers away
Too soon, too soon.
Speak low when you speak, love,
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift,
We're swept apart too soon.
Speak low, darling speak low,
Love is a spark lost in the dark,
Too soon, too soon,
I feel wherever I go
That tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here
And always too soon.
Time is so old and love so brief,
Love is pure gold and time a thief.
We're late darling, we're late,
The curtain descends, ev'rything ends
Too soon, too soon,
I wait darling, I wait
Will you speak low to me,
Speak love to me and soon.
(Contributed by Bill Huntley - November 2007)
