LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING
Created on 18/02/2006Latest update on 21/09/2023
Artist: Edward B. Powell
Author: Sammy Fain/Paul Webster
Year: 1955
Orchestra and choir version in film Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, based on Han Suyin's novel A Many-Splendored Thing.
Covers:
- 1955:
Four Aces [n°1 US; n°2 UK]
- 1955:
- 1955:
- 1955:
- 1955:
- 1964:
- 1966:
Connie Francis [as Sag, weisst du denn was Liebe ist]
- 1970:
- 1978:
Olivia Newton-John [B-side of Hopelessly Devoted To You]
- 1995:
- 1997:
Shake [as Rien n'est plus beau que l'amour]
- 2012:
Declined by Tony Martin before the Four Aces' success. Paul Francis Webster and Sammy Fain also cowrote April Love, a n°1 US for Pat Boone in '57. Fain also wrote the music for Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine and When I Take My Sugar To Tea; Paul Francis Webster the words for Ballad Of The Alamo, Guns Of Navarone, Jump For Joy, The Shadow Of Your Smile, Somewhere My Love (Lara's Theme) and I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good).
