The Best of Everything (song)
The Best of Everything is a song by Alfred Newman (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) released in 1959.
Newman and Cahn wrote The Best of Everything for the film All My Dreams (Original title: The Best of Everything , 1959, directed by Jean Negulesco , with Stephen Boyd , Hope Lange and Suzy Parker in the lead roles). The Best of Everything is featured in the film by Johnny Mathis , who plays a bar singer in the film. The song received an Oscar in 1960 for Best Song . The first lines of the song are:
- We've proven romance is still
- The best of everything
- That sudden thrill
- The best of everything.
The Johnny Mathis recording of The Best of Everything (with the Glenn Osser Orchestra) was released on Columbia (4-41491), coupled with the song Cherie . In the field of jazz , Dinah Washington / Quincy Jones Orchestra, Frank Sinatra , Ines Reiger and later Roger Pontare also recorded the song. Tom Lord lists seven versions of the song.
Individual evidence
- ↑ All my dreams in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ The 1960 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ↑ The Best Of Everything Lyrics at MetroLyrics
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 14, 2014)