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The Last Straw
( with Betty Hutton )
Words and Music by
Lenny Stack
Blue Room
~ from the 1948 M-G-M film "Words and Music"
Words and Music by Rodgers and Hart, 1926
When Day Is Done
~ a German song originally titled "Madonna, Du Bist Schöner als der Sonnenschein!"
Music and original German lyrics by Robert Katscher , 1926
English lyrics by B.G. DeSylva
What'll I Do?
~ featured in "Big City", 1948, sung by Danny Thomas
Words and Music by Irving Berlin, 1924
If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts
( We'll Just Be The Same Old Friends )
~ featured by Andy Russell and The Pied Pipers in the mid-forties
Music by James V. Monaco and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy , 1915
Marrying For Love
~ from the 1950 Broadway musical "Call Me Madam"
Words and Music by Irving Berlin , 1950
Summertime
( with Sally Sweetland )
Introduced by Abbie Mitchell in the musical production "Porgy and Bess"
Music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Du Bose Heyward , 1935
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
( with The Satisfiers )
~ melody adapted from Chopin's "Fantaisie Impromptu in C# Minor
Music by Harry Carroll and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy, 1917, 1946
Love Me Or Leave Me
~ from the 1928 Stage musical "Whoopee"
Music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn
Body and Soul
~ from the United Artists Film "Body and Soul"
Music by Johnny Green
and lyrics by Robert B. Sour, Edward Heyman, and Frank Eyton
When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver
( I Will Love You Just The Same )
Music by Peter De Rose
and lyrics by Charles Tobias, 1930
Carolina Moon
Music by Joe Burke and lyrics by Benny Davis , 1929
Haunted Heart
~ from the musical production "Inside U.S.A."
Music by Arthur Schwartz
with lyrics by Howard Dietz, 1948
My Child
Words and Music by Cy Coben and Jerry Livingston
adapted from a Chopin Piano Concerto
Some Enchanted Evening
~ from the 1949 Stage musical "South Pacific"
Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Bali Ha'i
~ from the musical production "South Pacific"
Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Hello Young Lovers
~ from the 1951 musical production "The King and I"
Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
We Kiss In A Shadow
~ from the 1951 Stage musical "The King and I"
Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
My Heart Stood Still
( with Chorus )
~ from the musical production "A Connecticut Yankee"
Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart 1927
Hopelessly
( with The Ames Brothers )
Words and Music by
Jack Richards and Ed Penney ( Robert Mellin )
One More Time
( with The Ames Brothers )
Music by Ray Henderson
with lyrics by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown
All At Once You Love Her
( and The Ray Charles Singers )
~ from the musical production "Pipe Dream"
Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
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