It's Magic (song)
It's Magic is a song by Jule Styne (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) released in 1948.
Styne and Cahn wrote the song It's Magic for the comedy film Zaubernächte in Rio (1948, original title: Romance on the High Seas , director: Michael Curtiz ), with Jack Carson and Janis Paige in the leading roles. The song is presented in the film by Doris Day , who had her first film role in Romance on the High Seas . It's Magic received an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1949 .
The songwriter duo Styne / Kahn wrote the song for the then relatively unknown Doris Day and drew Michael Curtiz's attention to the young singer, who then gave her her first major film role. Since the song was supposed to be set in a Latin American nightclub, Styne gave the melody a slight Latin feel and Cahn wrote the appropriate lyrics.
Doris Day's record recording of the song was released on Columbia Records 38188, coupled with Put Them in a Box Tie Em With a Rubbon . The recording was on the Billboard charts for 21 weeks and peaked at # 2. The cover versions of Tony Martin ( RCA Victor 20-2862; # 11), Dick Haymes ( Decca 23826; # 9), Gordon MacRae ( Capitol 15072; # 9) and Sarah Vaughan ( Musicraft Records 557; # 29) were in the American charts successful.
The song was recorded from the end of 1947 a. a. also by Mel Tormé , Tex Beneke , Charlie Mariano , Dinah Washington , Curtis Fuller / Tommy Flanagan , Keely Smith , Ralph Flanagan , Bobby Hackett , Etta Jones , Sammy Davis Jr. , Abbey Lincoln and Della Reese , which made it a jazz standard . In later years the song was u. a. also interpreted by Carmen McRae , Hal Galper , Janet Seidel , Sue Raney , Gloria Lynne , Diane Schuur , Ahmad Jamal ( album of the same name , 2007) and Eddie Higgins . The discographer Tom Lord lists 73 versions of the song.
Individual evidence
- ^ The 1949 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ↑ Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs - 100 Years of American Popular Music - The Stories of the Creators and Performers . New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005 ISBN 1-57912-448-8 ), p. 48
- ^ Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Record Research. (1973).
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 16, 2014)