Swingin' Down the Lane

Everybody hand-in-hand, swingin' down the lane,

Everybody feelin' grand, swingin' down the lane,

That's the time I miss the bliss, that we might have known,

Nights like this, when I'm all alone!

 

When the moon is on the rise, 'Honey' I'm so blue,

Watchin' lovers making eyes, like we used to do,

When the moon is on the wane, still I'm waitin' all in vain,

Should be swingin' down the lane with you!

 

< instrumental break "trumpet solo" >

 

When the moon is on the rise, 'Honey' I'm so blue,

Watchin' lovers making eyes, like we used to do,

When the moon is on the wane, still I'm waitin' all in vain,

Should be swingin' down the lane with you!

 

~ featured in the 1951 Kahn biography "I'll See You In My Dreams"

Music by Isham Jones and lyrics by Gus Kahn , 1923 

Leo Feist, Inc.

  | Album Notes | Album Session |

Instrumental backing by  "Como's Little Combo"

— a section of Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra with Mel Davis Trumpet Solo

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio 3, 155 East 24th Street, New York City

A&R Producer: Ed O. Welker 

Recorded February 12, 1957

A Perry Como Discography 

& Digital Companion

| Site Links | All Albums |  All Songs | The Recording Sessions |

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