Too Late Now
Too Late Now is a song by Burton Lane (music) and Alan J. Lerner (lyrics) released in 1950.
Lane and Lerner wrote Too Late Now for the film Royal Wedding ( 1951, directed by Stanley Donen , Royal Wedding , starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell ). She sings in the film Too Late Now as an open declaration of love to Peter Lawford ; At a party in London, Jane Powell assures her film partner that it is too late now to forget and go on to someone new. The first lines of the song read accordingly: "Too late to forget your smile / how we clung to each other when we danced together / too late now to forget it and switch to someone new."
The song received an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1952 . The film songs by Fred Astaire and Jane Powell were released in the early 1950s on a 25 cm LP on MGM Records (MGM 30316). In the following years numerous cover versions in the field of jazz and popular music were created, including a. by Dinah Shore , Toni Arden / Percy Faith , Bing Crosby , Sammy Price , André Previn , Peggy Lee , Jimmy Raney , Cleo Laine , Reinhold Svensson , Ahmad Jamal , Art Farmer , Mel Tormé , Sammy Davis junior , Wes Montgomery , Roland Kirk , Ben Webster , which made the song a popular jazz standard . In later years Too Late Now et al. a. also by Mark Murphy , George Shearing / Carmen McRae ( Two for the Road , 1980), Joe Pass , Maxine Sullivan , Harvie Swartz , Tony Coe , Bengt Hallberg , Hank Jones , Warren Vaché , Jane Monheit , Rebecca Kilgore , Shirley Horn and Claire Martin (2012). The discographer Tom Lord lists 149 versions of the song.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the song at Jazzstandards.com
- ↑ imdb.com
- ^ Stanley Green: Encyclopaedia of the musical film. Oxford University Press, 1981, p. 284.
- ↑ theguitarguy.com
- ^ The 1952 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ↑ Columbia 39272
- ↑ allmusic.com
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 14, 2014)