Tender Is the Night (song)
Tender Is the Night is a song by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) released in 1962.
Fain and Webster wrote Tender Is the Night for the film Tender Is the Night (original title: Tender Is the Night , 1962), directed by Henry King , with Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones as the main character. The song, featured in the film in the orchestral version by Bernard Herrmann and in the vocal version by Earl Grant , received an Oscar nomination in 1963 for Best Song . The first lines of the song read: Tender is the night, so tender is the night / There's no one in the world / Except the two of us . Numerous cover versions of Tender Is the Night were recorded in the 1960s, in addition to the release of Earl Grant on Brunswick Records (45-05865) and others. a. by Vic Damone (Capitol 4645), Tony Bennett (Columbia 4-42219), Herman Clebanoff (Mercury 71905), in the field of jazz also by Billy Eckstine , Benny Bailey , Johnny Mathis , later also by Diederik Wissels , Harry Allen , Steve Noble and Freddy Cole (2010). Tom Lord lists eleven versions of the song after 1962.
The Fain Webster composition should not be confused with the 1983 song of the same name by Jackson Browne .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tender is the Night is in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Billboard Oct. 30, 1961
- ^ The 1963 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ↑ http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859384009/
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 12, 2014)