Almost in your arms
Almost in Your Arms is a Jay Livingston and Ray Evans song released in 1958.
background
Songwriter / composer duo Jay Livingston and Ray Evans wrote the ballad Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat) (the full title) for the film Hausboot (1958, directed by Melville Shavelson ), with Sophia Loren and Cary Grant in the main roles. In the film, the two danced to the song originally recorded for the film by Sam Cooke ; instead of this vocal version, however, an instrumental version was eventually used. The song then received an Oscar nomination in 1959 for the best song category . The first two lines of the song are: You're here, that moment's near, / I'm almost in your arms.
Cover versions of the song appeared from the early 1960s a. a. by Nancy Wilson / Jimmy Jones , Sam Cooke, Johnny Nash , Vera Lynn , Steve Allen , Dakota Staton , Michael Feinstein and Sinéad O'Connor . Only the version by Johnny Nash was able to place in the US Billboard charts and reached number 78.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The 31st Academy Awards at IMDb (English)
- ↑ http://lyrics.wikia.com/Sam_Cooke:Almost_In_Your_Arms
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 9, 2014)
- ↑ Catalog number ABC-Paramount 9960, Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 423
