(Love Is) The Tender Trap
(Love Is) The Tender Trap is a song by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) that was released in 1955.
Van Heusen and Cahn wrote the song for the feature film Die zartefallen (The Tender Trap), a. a. starring Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra . Sinatra, accompanying himself on the piano, and Reynolds sing him as a duo.
The song, which, like the film, took up the ambivalent attitude of Americans to marriage and marriage in the 1950s, was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best song , which was finally won by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster in 1948 for the song Love Is a Many Splendored Thing received.
Sinatra - accompanied by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra - recorded (Love Is) The Tender Trap (with B-side Weep They Will ) as a single for Capitol Records (F 3290). The single reached number 23 in the Billboard Top 100 at the beginning of 1956. In the field of jazz and pop music, numerous cover versions of the song were recorded from the mid-1950s; Tom Lord lists 38 versions of the title & a. by Ella Fitzgerald / Tutti Camarata , George Rhodes , Tommy Dorsey , Mel Tormé , Ray Anthony , Paul Quinichette , Buddy Greco , Oscar Peterson , Ted Heath , Sylvia Syms , Sammy Davis junior , Billy Eckstine , Dominique Eade , Ralph Sharon , Stacey Kent and Janis Siegel , in the 1990s also in the duo of Robert Palmer / Clare Fischer .
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 355116936
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Tender Trap in the Internet Movie Database (English) /
- ↑ Jessica Weiss: To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change . 2000
- ^ The 1956 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ↑ In the Jockey Charts the song was number 7, in the best seller charts number 24. Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 546
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 3, 2014)