Falling in Love with Love explained

Falling in Love with Love
Type:	song
Published:	1938
Composer:	Richard Rodgers
Lyricist:	Lorenz Hart

"Falling in Love with Love" is a show tune from the Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys from Syracuse, where it was introduced by Muriel Angelus. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1938.^[1] The song is set to a waltz, but the lyrics "remind his [Hart's] listeners of the show's skeptical tone".^[2]

Notable recordings

• Cannonball Adderley – Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings (1955)^[3]
• Helen Merrill – Helen Merrill (1955)^[4]
• Les Paul and Mary Ford – Les and Mary (1955)^[5]
• Clifford Brown – Memorial (1956)^[6]
• Jimmy Smith – A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (1957)^[7]
• Julie Andrews – Julie Andrews Sings (1958)^[8]
• Wes Montgomery – Far Wes (1958)^[9]
• Dinah Shore – Dinah, Yes Indeed! (1959)^[10]
• Carmen McRae - Something to Swing About (1960)^[11]
• Vic Damone – On the Swingin' Side (1960)^[12]
• Anita O'Day – Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960)^[13]
• Alma Cogan – With You in Mind (1961)^[14]
• Frank Sinatra – Sinatra Swings (1961)^[15]
• Caterina Valente – Super-Fonics (1961)^[16]
• Sammy Davis Jr. – Sammy Davis Jr. Belts the Best of Broadway (1962)^[17]
• Ahmad Jamal – Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk (1962)^[18]
• Cliff Richard – 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds with Cliff Richard (1962)^[19]
• Sheila Jordan – Portrait of Sheila (1963)^[20]
• Sarah Vaughan – The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan (1963)^[21]
• Andy Williams – Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests (1963)^[22]
• Sergio Franchi – The Songs of Richard Rodgers (1965)^[23]
• Franco Cerri – 12 bacchette per una chitarra – Orchestrated by Ennio Morricone (1966)^[24]
• The Supremes – The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart (1967)^[25]
• Peggy March – No Foolin (1968)^[26]
• Patricia Routledge – Presenting Patricia Routledge (1973)^[27]
• Eliane Elias – Illusions (1987)^[28]
• Frederica von Stade - My Funny Valentine (1989)^[29]
• Jessye Norman – Lucky to Be Me (1992)^[30]
• Roseanna Vitro – Softly (1993)^[31]

Other performances

• In the 1940 musical film version of The Boys from Syracuse, it was performed by Allan Jones.
• It was sung by Bernadette Peters as the Stepmother in the 1997 television film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.

Notes and References

1. http://www.lorenzhart.org/syracuse.htm '"The Boys from Syracuse', 1938"
2. Hyland, William George.'The Boys from Syracuse'Richard Rodgers, Yale University Press, 1998,, p. 120
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