YOUNG AT HEART

Created on 28/11/2000
Latest update on 07/03/2023

Artist: Frank Sinatra
Author: Carolyn Leigh/Johnny Richards
Label: Capitol
Year: 1954

His first n°1 US since '47. Also the theme of a film named after the song.

Covers:

1954:

Bing Crosby [with Guy Lombardo]

1957:

Rosemary Clooney

1959:

Patti Page

1961:

Perry Como

1961:

Connie Francis

1961:

Vera Lynn

1977:

Wild Man Fischer

1998:

Brad Mehldau

2000:

Victoria Williams

2006:

Tom Waits

2013:

Michael Bublé

2013:

Gloria Estefan

2016:

Bob Dylan

2018:

Willie Nelson [the only Sinatra song of his tribute album also covered by Dylan]

Lyric line 'If I should survive to one hundred and five' was used by a 14 year old John Lennon in a poem to his Aunt Mimi upon losing her husband, his uncle George. Mimi always kept that poem as a first sign John was able to express feelings through popular song.

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