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"Once in a While" is a popular song, written by Michael Edwards with lyrics by Bud Green. The song was published in 1937.
The song is a much-recorded standard. Tommy Dorsey's recording in 1937 went to number one in the United States. One of the best-known recordings was made by Patti Page in 1952.{MERCURY 5867} The song was revived in doo-wop style by the Chimes in 1960, and their version peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1961.
Joe Bushkin included the song on his 1950s album After Hours with Joe Bushkin.
Al Bishop & The Cold Fingers recorded the song in Oslo on January 16, 1967. It was released on the single HMV 45-AL 6143.
In 1968, Ella Fitzgerald recorded this song on her 30 by Ella album.
UK singer Elkie Brooks released a single of the song in 1984 in support of her hit album Screen Gems.
In 2011, Eddie Vedder recorded the song for his Ukulele Songs album.
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, /sɨˈnɑːtrə/, (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and film actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.
He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".
Horses run
Once in a while for you
The shades will draw
Once in a while for you
Destiny will hide the sense of your time
Once in a while
Once in a while for you
The soldiers will fall
Once in a while for you
The shades will crawl
Once in a while for you
You'll take the walls
I will take the new ring
Once in a while
Once in a while it's you
Once in a while it's you
Once in a while
You'll make it on your own
You'll make it so alone
Feel so alone
You'll try to care
Once in a while for me
And I will be there
Once in a while
Once in a while for you
Once in a while for you