DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES

Created on 19/06/2003
Latest update on 01/04/2022

Artist: Harry MacDonough
Author: Ben Jonson/J.W. Calcott
Label: Victor
Year: 1902

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) wrote this as To Celia (translation of the love poems of Greek sofist Philostratus), published in 1616 as part of his volume of poems The Forest. Benjamin Jonson was the most important English poet since Shakespeare.

Covers:

1903:

Emilio de Gogorza

1910:

John McCormack

1913:

Walter Wheatley

1914:

Julia Culp

1926:

Rae Eleanor Ball

1927:

Lawrence Tibbett

1933:

Rosa Ponselle

1938:

Paul Robeson

1939:

John Kirby

1940:

Glenn Miller

1941:

Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy

1951:

Kathleen Ferrier

1958:

George Hamilton IV [On Campus album]

1960:

Dean Martin [as part of the Rat Pack]

1960:

Aafje Heynis

1961:

Anthony Newley

1962:

Howie Mitchell

1963:

Jayne Mansfield

1965:

Burl Ives

1970s:

Johnny Cash

1978:

Roger Whittaker

1978:

Gerard van Maasakkers [as Slaop Kiendje Slaop]

2011:

Laura Wright

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