Artist: Emil Newman
Author: David Raksin
Label: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1944
Instrumental title theme of Otto Preminger's film. Words were added when filmgoers started claiming for the theme to be worked out as a proper song. That's when they hired Johnny Mercer. Musical Director Emil Newman was the brother of Alfred Newman (who wrote Love Is A Many Splendored Thing) and Randy Newman's uncle.
Covers:
Johnny Johnson [first vocal version, with Johnny Mercer lyrics]
Charlie Parker [With Strings]
Christophe [as Souvenir de Laura]
Kevin Mahogany [in film Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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