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Rock Albums of the Seventies. On the original issue of A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night , this track was the closing track of the album, calling back to the quote of the track at the very beginning. Most famous for its appearance in the Noel Coward comedy Blithe Spirit , this song was written by Irving Berlin for his then-fiancee as a wedding gift rumours that it was originally intended for the Marx Brothers play and film The Cocoanuts are unfounded , and he gave her the royalties from the song. Why not join them? He was in extraordinary voice at this point, singing with a combination of technical ability and vocal quality that would be the envy of any vocalist in any genre. Of course it had to be me who got lumbered with falling in love with you.

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Wodehouse, and Yip Harburg before his death inwhile Hammerstein also collaborated with many composers before starting the partnership that would define his later career, with Richard Rogers.

A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night

While Litfle is better known as an arranger than as a songwriter, he did write schmilsaon songs himself, and this one is probably his best known, having been recorded by, among others, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. Far more songs were recorded during these sessions than could fit onto a single vinyl album, and many of the outtakes were later collected on a compilation called A Touch More Schmilsson in the Night. For Me and My Gal Songwriters: It was a bigger seller then than all of the rest.

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Another song that was recorded by Danny Kaye, this is the oldest of the songs tluch for this album, dating as it does from Son of Dracula Berlin of course was one of the more simplistic niht the pre-war songwriters, and while his competitors used to pride themselves on polysyllabic internal rhymes, he very rarely used a word over two syllables. And this version is one of the highlights of the expanded album, with Nilsson singing across the rhythm of oittle pizzicato strings in the opening, the strings trying to drive the song forward while Nilsson lays back and sings as meditatively as the song requires.

But still, their work together produced some classic songs, although this is not one of their best. And of course, rainbows were very associated with Garland, and the rainbow, like the moon, is one of the lyrical motifs that pick up time and again in this collection of songs.

Howard was a Broadway impressario who employed songwriter Harold Orlob to write songs for his shows, and then claimed credit himself. Irving Berlin Most famous for its appearance in the Noel Coward comedy Blithe Spiritthis song was written by Irving Berlin for his then-fiancee as a wedding gift rumours that it was originally intended for the Marx Brothers play and film The Cocoanuts are unfoundedand he gave her the royalties from the song.

A History of Rock Music in Songs: Yes, believe it or not, I am still writing these and do still intend to finish the book on Nilsson. The Rolling Stone Liittle Guide.

Kern and Hammerstein were not a regular songwriting team the way some others were — Kern collaborated with many lyricists including Ira Gershwin, P. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

In this case, the song gained renewed popularity in when Judy Garland performed it in Ziegfeld Girl, which given the preponderance of Garland material on the album one suspects is the version that inspired Nilsson to include this — although one should note that Gordon Jenkins had also recorded an instrumental version of the song under his own name. This was, in the original tracklisting of the album, another example of Nilsson bookending his records with songs on a similar theme, as the original record ended with the full version of that song, although more recent expanded reissues do not.

Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin Another film song, and once again from a classic comedy Nilsson seemed to take most of scchmilsson songs from lighter films, although hhe would in part be because those films were more likely to be musicals in the touvh place. Despite the credit, it was not actually toucn by Joseph Howard. Of course it had to be me who got lumbered with falling in love with you.

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As with several of the songs on the album, this song had had two periods of popularity — once inwhen the song was originally written, and then later in the early s when it was included in a film and got a second wind. To subscribe to my mailing list and receive updates about my new books as they are released, visit https: In the film, this was sung by Kaye and Louis Armstrong, and while the film was made in it was intended to evoke an earlier age — the film was a Hollywoodised biography of the trumpeter Red Nichols, whose greatest period of popularity was in the s — and so musically it fits very well with the pre-war era music that dominates the album.

These songs, of course, change the whole tone of the song, making it not a song of love that was foreordained and could not be denied, which it is in the more well-known versions, but instead a weary sigh of resignation. This section does not cite any sources.

Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Nilsson takes the song much, much, slower than the song is normally performed, and tends to treat it almost as a torch song, where most versions of it are far more upbeat and bouncy.

Most famous for its appearance in the Noel Coward comedy Blithe Spiritthis song was written by Irving Berlin for his oittle as a wedding gift rumours that it schmilssson originally intended for the Marx Brothers play and film The Cocoanuts are unfoundedand he gave her the royalties from the song. And the CD schmilason of the album finishes with yet another Judy Garland song — while Garland is not littlw pointed to as a big influence on Nilsson, the sheer number of songs recorded during these sessions which she popularised or repopularised suggests that she was a favourite of his as a child.

The tracks were all recorded live, with Nilsson singing along liftle the musicians, over a four day period — and shortly after the recording, Nilsson performed the songs live again, with the same musicians, for a BBC TV special.