DORIS DAY - WITH A SONG IN MY HEART

WITH A SONG IN MY HEART

DORIS DAY

SONGWRITER: RICHARD RODGERS & LORENZ HART

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: WITH A SONG IN MY HEART/78RPM

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1950

"With a Song in My Heart" is a show tune from the 1929 Rodgers and Hart musical Spring Is Here.

In the original Broadway production it was introduced by John Hundley and Lillian Taiz. The following year, it was sung by Lawrence Gray in the Hollywood musical version of that show by Bernice Claire and Frank Albertson. The most popular recording of the song in 1929 was by Leo Reisman.

In 1933, it was included in a two-reel version of the film re-titled Yours Sincerely, part of the Broadway Brevities series, starring Lanny Ross.

In the 1944 Hollywood musical This Is the Life, it was sung by Donald O'Connor and Susanna Foster.

It was included in the 1948 musical film, Words and Music, a biography of Rodgers and Hart, where it was sung by Perry Como.

It was also heard, sung by Doris Day, in the 1950 Hollywood musical Young Man with a Horn.

In the 1951 Hollywood musical Painting the Clouds with Sunshine it was sung by Dennis Morgan and Lucille Norman.

It was the title song in the 1952 Hollywood musical With a Song in My Heart, a biographical movie about Jane Froman, in which it was sung by Froman on the soundtrack for Susan Hayward.

With a song in my heart

I behold your adorable face

Just a song at the start

But it soon is a hymn to your grace

When the music swells

I'm touching your hand

It tells that me you're standing near

And at the sound of your voice

Heaven opens its portals to me

Can I help but rejoice

That a song such as ours came to be?

But I always knew

I would live life through

With a song in my heart for you.