THAT'S FOR SURE

(Johnny Mercer (m & l) )


As sung by Margaret Whiting with the Mellowmen < 100 The Original Tracks - Remastered >

Released May 2013


Also sung by:

Phil Silvers


It's love and that's for sure

L'amour, toujours, for sure

Besides that fine old animal urge

This feeling is virgin pure.


You're mine and that's ideal

I'm thine and that's for real

Let's sing the sweetest words that we know

To 'Papa Mendelssohn's' overture.


For keeps, for rich, or poor

And that's for sure.


(bridge)


You're mine and that's ideal

I'm thine and that's for real

Let's sing the sweetest words that we know

To 'Papa Mendelssohn's' overture.


For keeps, for rich, or poor

And that's for sure.


Notes:


Margaret Whiting, daughter of songwriter Richard Whiting, was a

1940s/50s/60s pop, jazz, C & W singer and TV personality. She was born

in Detroit USA. Her voice was wonderfully mellow, particularly in the

lower registers, and an attraction for many. She had a number of hit

recordings and continued to entertain until the 1990s. She was known by

her adoring fans as the voice of MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT, the work of

Blackburn/Suessdorf which her mentor, Johnny Mercer first suggested she

record. She first sang for Mercer when she was seven years old and he

eventually signed her as one of his first recording artists in the early

1940s. This song ultimately became a huge hit and over the years, a

picturesque all time standard. 


This music/lyric is part of the original cast production of 'Top Banana' 

which was a 1951 Broadway musical comedy starring Phil Silvers (of early 

television Sgt. Ernest Bilko fame (1955) ).


(Transcribed by David Story May 2014)