With a Song In My Heart ( 1948 MGM Version )

~ from the 1948 M-G-M film "Words and Music"

Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart

 

Perry Como and Chorus

Recording Time 3:39

 

Musical Direction: Lennie Hayton
Orchestration: Conrad Salinger
Vocal Arrangements: Robert Tucker
Musical numbers staged and directed by: Robert Alton

Recorded July 10, 1948   ~  MGM Matrix No. 27503 /  Scene 2427

Album issue: MGM-LP12 "Words & Music Soundtrack" MGM-3771 MONO 1949 

 

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Musical Direction: Lennie Hayton
Orchestration: Conrad Salinger
Vocal Arrangements: Robert Tucker
Musical numbers staged and directed by: Robert Alton

Recorded July 10, 1948

Notes: ~ introduced by John Hundley and Lillian Taiz in the 1929 Stage musical

"Spring is Here" and sung in the 1930 Hollywood musical version by by Bernice

Claire and Frank Albertson; in a two-reel version of the film re-titled "Yours Sincerely"

in 1933, part of the "Broadway Brevities" series, starring Lanny Ross; it was sung in the

1944 Hollywood musical "This Is the Life" by Donald O'Connor and Susanna Foster,

and in 1948 by Perry Como in the Rodgers and Hart biography and Hollywood musical

"Words and Music"; it was also heard in the 1950 Hollywood musical "Young Man with a Horn"

and sung by Dennis Morgan and Lucille Norman in the 1951 Hollywood musical

"Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" and as the title song in the Jane Froman story,

the 1952 Hollywood musical "With a Song in My Heart" sung by Froman

on the soundtrack for Susan Hayward.

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