Como Swings original album

Begin the Beguine

When they begin the beguine,
It brings back the sound of music so tender,
It brings back the night of tropical splendour,
It brings back a memory evergreen!

I'm with you once more under the stars,
And down by the shore an orchestra's playin'
Even  the palms seems to be swayin'
When they begin the beguine!

To live it again is past all endeavour,
Except when that tune clutches my heart,
And there we are swearin' to love forever,
And promising never, never to part!

 
What moments divine, what raptures serene,
'Till clouds came along to disperse
the joys we had tasted . . .
Now, when I hear people curse
the chance that was wasted,
I know but too well what they mean!

So, don't let them begin the beguine,
Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember . . .
Let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember,
When they begin the beguine!

Oh yes, let them begin the beguine, make them play!
'Till the stars that were there before return above you,
'Till you whisper to me once more, "Darling, I love you!"
And we suddenly know, what heaven we're in,
When they begin the beguine!
When they begin . . . the beguine!

 
~ from the 1935 Stage musical comedy "Jubilee"
Words and Music by Cole Porter
Harms, Inc. ASCAP

Original RCA RecordingVinyl Version | Album Session | Album Notes |  1958 Version |

Produced by Charles Grean and Lee Schapiro
with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra & Ray Charles
Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A, 24th Street, New York City
Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson.
Recorded April 9th, 16th, 23rd & May 21st, 1959

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A Perry Como Discography 
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