HARBOUR LIGHTS

Created on 19/01/2006
Latest update on 19/04/2022

Artist: Roy Fox
Author: Will Grosz/Jimmy Kennedy
Label: Decca
Year: 1937

English orchestra, explaining the British spelling; vocal: Barry Gray.

Covers:

1937:

Claude Thornhill [as Harbor Lights; American spelling]

1937:

Frances Langford

1937:

Rudy Vallee [idem]

1950:

Sammy Kaye

1950:

Guy Lombardo

1950:

Bing Crosby

1950:

Ray Anthony

1951:

Dinah Washington

1953:

Jan Koster [as Havenlicht]

1954:

Elvis Presley [recorded during his first session with Scotty & Bill, released in '76]

1960:

Platters

1960:

Ames Brothers

1960:

Lys Assia [as Das Grosse Heimwehlied]

1960:

Imca Marina [as Havenlicht]

1961:

String-A-Longs

1961:

Aretha Franklin [as Harbor Lights]

1962:

Bruce Low [as Hafenlicht]

1968:

Connie Francis [as Harbor Lights]

1980:

Rusty Draper

1983:

Willie Nelson

Coauthor Jimmy Kennedy also wrote Red Sails In The Sunset and translated My Prayer for The Platters (see: Avant de mourir).

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