You Keep Coming Back Like a Song

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You Keep Coming Back Like a Song
publication 1946
length 2:30
Genre (s) Film music
text Irving Berlin
music Irving Berlin
Award (s) Oscar nomination in 1947 as "Best Song"
album Blue skies

You Keep Coming Back Like a Song is a song that Irving Berlin composed and wrote for the soundtrack of the music film Blau ist der Himmel ( Blue Skies ) by Stuart Heisler from 1946. In the film it is performed by Bing Crosby . The chorus is: You keep coming back like a song, A song that keeps saying 'Remember' ... and is about the fact that memories keep coming back, like an old song that you love and that you cannot escape ( Can ' t run away from you, dear ...).

History of the song

According to Berlin biographer Edward Jablonksi, the song, which reflects Irving Berlin's love for his wife Elin, may have been written as early as 1943, but was only released in the aforementioned film: Bing Crosby and the female leading actress Joan Caulfield sing in the finale of Blue Skies the song together.

Bing Crosby was with the song in January 1946 at number 12 on the US Billboard charts and in Australia in January 1947 at number 1. In the list of his most successful songs, the song is number 39.

Dinah Shore also recorded the song and was able to record the greater success over Crosby in the USA. Shore was number 5 on the Billboard charts for three weeks from June 1947 and was also number 5 in the Hit Parade of 1946, and also number 1 in Australia for one month in June 1947. The song occupies number 8 on their list of their most successful songs. Bing Crosby's version was number 27 on the Billboard chart in 1946, while Dinah Shore was number 31, while Crosby's version was more successful in the UK.

Cover versions

exist among others from

  • Jo Stafford
  • Georgia Gibbs (recorded in 1946 by Majestic Records)
  • Johnny Thompson (recorded in 1946 with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra )
  • Frank Sinatra , who sang the song on the Songs By Sinatra radio show . The recording was published under The Unheard Sinatra Vol. 1 and on the album The Very Best of the Irving Berlin Songbook .
  • Red Garland (album Red Garland Revisited ! , 1957)
  • Ella Fitzgerald (Album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook , 1958)
  • BarbershopMe - Interstate Rivals from 2012 and The Newfangled Four (2015)

In the field of jazz, the song was also by Charlie Barnet (1946), Vido Musso / Skip Nelson (1947), Elliot Lawrence (1947), Jackie Davis (around 1955), Tony Perkins (1958), Chuck Foster (around 1985), Ronnie Wells (1991) and Frank Strazzeri (1994) covered.

Irving Berlin, who composed and wrote the song for the film Blau ist der Himmel

Award / nomination

1948 was Irving Berlin with You Keep Coming Back Like a Song in the category "Best Song" for a Oscar nomination. However, the award went to Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren for their song On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe from the musical film The Harvey Girls .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ You Keep Coming Back Like a Song Notenblatt at musicnotes.com, accessed on January 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ Song portrait (Cafe Songbook)
  3. ↑ Joan Caulfield & Bing Crosby sing You Keep Coming Back Like a Song on myvideo.de
  4. ↑ Song Artist 4 - Bing Crosby at tsort.info
  5. ↑ Dinah Shore: You Keep Coming Back Like a Song at lyricsmode.com
  6. ↑ Song Artist 66 - Dinah Shore at tsort.info
  7. ↑ Songs from the Year 1946 at tsort.info.
  8. ↑ You Keep Coming Back Like a Song at the-main-event.eu, accessed on January 2, 2016.
  9. ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz discography (online)