I'll be seeing you

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I'll Be Seeing You is a 1938 song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal . The song became a hit with a time lag in World War II and developed into a jazz standard .

Emergence

The song is about a couple of lovers separated for unknown reasons. The I sees the loved one again through everyday things, such as the little café on the corner, the chestnut tree or the moon. Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal wrote the song for the Broadway musical Right This Way , in which Tamara Drasin sang the song. However, the piece closed ten days after its premiere in January 1938 and I'll Be Seeing You temporarily disappeared into oblivion. Irving Kahal did not see the song's later success, as he died of uremia in 1942 at the age of only 38 - he had always considered it the best song he had ever written.

Later reception

The song became popular again through the Second World War , initially through singers like Hildegarde Sell , who performed with it in nightclubs. Its theme matched the many lovers who were separated during the war and faced an uncertain future, and so it became one of the most popular love songs of the war. In 1944 there were two hit versions: One by Bing Crosby (which was number 1 in the charts for a week), and one by Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, in which Frank Sinatra sang. In 1944 the song was used in William Dieterle 's drama of the same name .

Even in the post-war period, I'll Be Seeing You was able to maintain its popularity and is still often covered today. The song has often been associated with Liberace , who used it as the opening melody on his television show. It can also be heard in numerous films: Yanks - Yesterday We Were Strangers (1977, in the version by Anne Shelton ), in Crime and Other Trifles (1989), in Misery (1990, Liberace's version is in the credits), in How a light in dark night (1992), in Aviator (2004, sung by Martha Wainwright ) and Like a Single Day (2004, the popular versions of Jimmy Durante and Billie Holiday can both be heard). Queen Latifah sang the song at the 2009 Academy Awards in memory of those who died in the film industry.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Broadway League: Right This Way - Broadway Musical - Original | IBDB. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal: I'll Be Seeing You: Sinatra Song of the Century # 30 . In: SteynOnline . ( steynonline.com [accessed on May 27, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Stephen Holden: Sammy Fain, 87, Prolific Composer of Pop Ballads . ( nytimes.com [accessed May 27, 2018]).
  4. ^ "I'll Be Seeing You (in all the old familiar places)": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Darden Asbury Pyron: Liberace: An American Boy . University of Chicago Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-226-11712-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Oscar 2009: American Dream, made in India . In: Spiegel Online . February 23, 2009 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 27, 2018]).