LAST NIGHT WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

Created on 16/02/2006
Latest update on 15/02/2024

Artist: Lawrence Tibbett
Author: Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg
Label: RCA
Year: 1936

Written for film Metropolitan.

Covers:

1954:

Frank Sinatra [tried to include the song in '49 musical film Take Me Out To The Ball Game]

1956:

Judy Garland [tried to include the song in '49 film In The Good Old Summertime]

1972:

Carroll O'Connor [Archie Bunker in All In The Family TV-series]

1992:

Tony Bennett

1997:

Carly Simon

2006:

Toots Thielemans

Yip Harburg ranked it among his best lyrics, Harold Arlen as one out of two of his best melodies, along with One For My Baby (see there).

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