LOVER: From the film "Love Me Tonight" - 1932 (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart) Jeanette MacDonald (Film Soundtrack) - 1932 Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (vocal: Jack Fulton) - 1933 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - 1933 Greta Keller - 1933 Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - 1945 Gene Krupa & His Orch. (vocal: Anita O'Day) - 1945 Louis Armstrong & His All Stars - 1947 Les Paul (Instr.) - 1948 Frank Sinatra - 1950 Peggy Lee - 1952 Ella Fitzgerald - 1956 The Dorsey Brothers Orch. - 1956 Les Brown & His Band Of Renown - 1956 Duane Eddy (Instr.) - 1959 Anita O'Day - 1960 Frank Sinatra - 1961 Cliff Richard - 1961 Joni James - 1962 Brenda Lee - 1963 The Supremes - 1967 Tony Bennett - 1973 Also recorded by: Keely Smith; Merle Travis & Joe Maphis; Art Tatum; Jack Teagarden; Charlie Ventura; Stan Kenton; Marlene Ver Planck; Margaret Whiting; Mary Lou Williams; The Three Suns; Billy Taylor; Lawrence Welk; Sonny Stitt; Liberace; Rise Stevens; Hugh Thompson; Leslie Hutchinson; Oscar Peterson; Paula West; Max Roach; Carmen Cavallaro; Woody Herman; Glenn Miller; Dudley Moore; Deanna Durbin; Harry James; The Peddlers; Flip Phillips; Bert Kaempfert; Monty Sunshine; Charlie Parker; Buddy Merrill; Don Lee; Count Basie; Bob Crosby; Sam Butera; Errol Garner Trio; Kai Winding; Lesley Garrett; ......... and many others. Lover, when I'm near you And I hear you, speak my name Softly, in my ear you breathe a flame Lover, when we're dancing Keep on glancing in my eyes Till loves own entrancing music dies All of my future is in you You're every plan I design Promise you'll always continue To be mine Lover, please be tender When you're tender, fears depart Lover, I surrender to my heart Lover, it's immoral But why quarrel with our bliss When two lips of coral want to kiss I say the devil is in you And to resist you, I try But if you didn't continue I would die Lover, please be tender When you're tender, fears depart Lover, I surrender to my heart! Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902--1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895--1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. Comparisons between Rodgers and Hart and the successor team of Rodgers and Hammerstein are inevitable. Hammerstein's lyrics project warmth, sincere optimism, and occasional corniness. Hart's lyrics showed greater sophistication in subject matter, more use of overt verbal cleverness, and more of a "New York" or "Broadway" sensibility. The archetypal Rodgers and Hart song, "Manhattan," rhymes "The great big city's a wondrous toy/Just made for a girl and boy" in the first stanza, then reprises with "The city's glamor can never spoil/The dreams of a boy and goil" in the last. Many of the songs ("Falling in Love with Love", "Little Girl Blue", "My Funny Valentine") are wistful or sad, and emotional ambivalence seems to be perceptible in the background of even the sunnier songs. For example, "You Took Advantage of Me" appears to be an evocation of amorous joy, but the very title suggests some doubt as to whether the relationship is mutual or exploitative. Rodgers, as a creator of melodies, ranks with Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin. +++ When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all. - - Isaac Watts O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works. Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come. Ps 71

LOVER: From the film "Love Me Tonight" - 1932 (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart) Jeanette MacDonald (Film Soundtrack) - 1932 Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (vocal: Jack Fulton) - 1933 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - 1933 Greta Keller - 1933 Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - 1945 Gene Krupa & His Orch. (vocal: Anita O'Day) - 1945 Louis Armstrong & His All Stars - 1947 Les Paul (Instr.) - 1948 Frank Sinatra - 1950 Peggy Lee - 1952 Ella Fitzgerald - 1956 The Dorsey Brothers Orch. - 1956 Les Brown & His Band Of Renown - 1956 Duane Eddy (Instr.) - 1959 Anita O'Day - 1960 Frank Sinatra - 1961 Cliff Richard - 1961 Joni James - 1962 Brenda Lee - 1963 The Supremes - 1967 Tony Bennett - 1973 Also recorded by: Keely Smith; Merle Travis & Joe Maphis; Art Tatum; Jack Teagarden; Charlie Ventura; Stan Kenton; Marlene Ver Planck; Margaret Whiting; Mary Lou Williams; The Three Suns; Billy Taylor; Lawrence Welk; Sonny Stitt; Liberace; Rise Stevens; Hugh Thompson; Leslie Hutchinson; Oscar Peterson; Paula West; Max Roach; Carmen Cavallaro; Woody Herman; Glenn Miller; Dudley Moore; Deanna Durbin; Harry James; The Peddlers; Flip Phillips; Bert Kaempfert; Monty Sunshine; Charlie Parker; Buddy Merrill; Don Lee; Count Basie; Bob Crosby; Sam Butera; Errol Garner Trio; Kai Winding; Lesley Garrett; ......... and many others. Lover, when I'm near you And I hear you, speak my name Softly, in my ear you breathe a flame Lover, when we're dancing Keep on glancing in my eyes Till loves own entrancing music dies All of my future is in you You're every plan I design Promise you'll always continue To be mine Lover, please be tender When you're tender, fears depart Lover, I surrender to my heart Lover, it's immoral But why quarrel with our bliss When two lips of coral want to kiss I say the devil is in you And to resist you, I try But if you didn't continue I would die Lover, please be tender When you're tender, fears depart Lover, I surrender to my heart! Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902--1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895--1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. Comparisons between Rodgers and Hart and the successor team of Rodgers and Hammerstein are inevitable. Hammerstein's lyrics project warmth, sincere optimism, and occasional corniness. Hart's lyrics showed greater sophistication in subject matter, more use of overt verbal cleverness, and more of a "New York" or "Broadway" sensibility. The archetypal Rodgers and Hart song, "Manhattan," rhymes "The great big city's a wondrous toy/Just made for a girl and boy" in the first stanza, then reprises with "The city's glamor can never spoil/The dreams of a boy and goil" in the last. Many of the songs ("Falling in Love with Love", "Little Girl Blue", "My Funny Valentine") are wistful or sad, and emotional ambivalence seems to be perceptible in the background of even the sunnier songs. For example, "You Took Advantage of Me" appears to be an evocation of amorous joy, but the very title suggests some doubt as to whether the relationship is mutual or exploitative. Rodgers, as a creator of melodies, ranks with Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin. +++ When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all. - - Isaac Watts O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works. Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come. Ps 71