The Second Time Around

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The Second Time Around is a song by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) that was released in 1960. The song then received an Oscar nomination in the Best Song category and was in Frank Sinatra's repertoire for many years .

Origin of the song

Jimmy Van Heusen

Van Heusen and Cahn wrote “The Second Time Around” for the film Der Spätzünder (1960, director: Blake Edwards ), in which he is introduced by Bing Crosby on piano (accompanied by the Henry Mancini Orchestra). In the film story, Nicole Maurey listens to him from the kitchen. The soulful ballad begins with the two lines: Love is lovelier the second time around / Just as wonderful with both feet on the ground.

Cover versions

The songwriter duo Van Heusen and Cahn promoted Frank Sinatra's Ring-a-Ding-Ding with songs like Come Fly with Me, It's Nice to Go Travellin ' and The Second Time Around from the mid-1950s ! -Image. Frank Sinatra took it for the first time in 1961 during his session for the first reprise album Ring-a-Ding-Ding! (1961). The released single (Reprise 20001) reached number 50 in the US charts. The following year Sinatra sang the title live on his tour of France, accompanied by a jazz sextet.

Julie Wilson , Bobby Hackett and The Hi-Lo’s recorded the song back in the early 1960s ; In the following years Shirley Bassey , Brook Benton , Etta James , Peggy Lee , Sarah Vaughan , Ahmad Jamal , Shirley Horn , Chico Hamilton and the Count Basie Orchestra also performed it , making The Secords Time Around a jazz standard . Tom Lord lists 146 cover versions of the title. Rickie Lee Jones interpreted the song on her standards album Pop-Pop (1991), accompanied a. a. by Robben Ford .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Song portrait at Jazzstandards.com
  2. ↑ 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. 191 f.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 547
  4. ↑ Bill Miller , Al Viola , Ralph Peña , Irv Cottler , Emil Richards and Harry Klee
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 6, 2014)