I will wait for you
I Will Wait for You is a song by Michel Legrand (music) and Jacques Demy (lyrics) released in 1964.
Legrand / Demy wrote the song for the musical film Die Regenschirme von Cherbourg (original title: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg , 1964, director: Jacques Demy), with Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo in the leading roles. The singing doubles of the two actors were Danielle Licari (for Deneuve) and José Bartel. The song, the English text of which is by Norman Gimbel , received an Oscar nomination in 1966 for the best song category .
The first two lines of the song read: If it takes forever, I will wait for you / For a thousand summers, I will wait for you.
I Will Wait for You appeared on the soundtrack LP The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Disques Vogue . Cover versions of the song were released from the mid-1960s a. a. Nancy and Frank Sinatra , Steve Lawrence (whose version came to # 113 in the US in 1965), Andy Williams , Henry Mancini and Jane Morgan . In the field of jazz , I Will Wait for You was established in the second half of the 1960s a. a. also interpreted by Louis Armstrong (album of the same name on Brunswick Records ), the Dukes of Dixieland , Astrud Gilberto , Helen Merrill , Oscar Peterson , Bud Shank , Gary McFarland , Benny Goodman and Donald Byrd (on the Blue Note album The Creeper ). Pianist Steve Kuhn recorded the album I Will Wait for You - The Music of Michel Legrand in a trio with George Mraz (b) and Billy Drummond (dr) in 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Lyrics at Sing365
- ^ The 1966 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ↑ 1967 on the single reprise RA0561
- ↑ on the single Columbia 4-43192
- ↑ on the single Epic 5-10012 or on Memory Lane 5-2266; indicated here as co-author of the song N. Gimbel .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 10, 2014)