A very precious love

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A Very Precious Love is a song written by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) and published in 1957.

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Fain and Webster wrote A Very Precious Love for the film Die Liebe der Marjorie Morningstar (Original title: Marjorie Morningstar (1958), directed by Irving Rapper ) with Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly in the leading roles. In the film, the song was introduced by Gene Kelly. The song then received an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1958 .

The first lines of the song are:

Every show must have a song
Most everyone agrees
For what else could the ingenuity
And the juvenile reprise.

A Very Precious Love was recorded by numerous musicians in the USA in the 1950s, including a. by The Ames Brothers , Doris Day , Slim Whitman , Jack Jones and Bonnie Guitar . The Ames Brothers' version on RCA Victor hit the Billboard charts in March 1958; Doris Day's version hit # 16 on the UK charts. Other cover versions of the song took a. Urbie Green , Charlie Spivak , Harry Allen , Dick Haymes and Ronnie Wells .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David A. Jasen: Tin Pan Alley : An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song , 2003, p. 126
  2. The 31st Academy Awards at IMDb (English)
  3. Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.risa.co.uk
  4. The single (RCA 7167) reached number 65 in the Billboard Top 100 and number 23 in the Jockey Charts. Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 14
  5. ^ Billboard May 19, 1958; Nugent, Stephen / Fowler, Anne / Fowler, Pete: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974. In: Gillett, Charlie / Frith, Simon (eds.): Rock File 4 . Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, 1976, p. 136
  6. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 8, 2014)