It would help the project if you would sing any of these. Alternatively, we could use a historic recording if it follows the sheet music melody and lyrics.
Only Dreams
Lisnagade
The Handicap March
Beneath the Spanish Moon
Lolita
From This Moment On (1950 OUT OF THIS WORLD) [cut]
From the Musical “OUT OF THIS WORLD,” 1950. [cut]
Used in the Musical Film “KISS ME, KATE,” 1953.
Words and Music by Cole Porter.
Copyright ©28 Sep 1950.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
LYRICS:
Now that we are close,
No more nights morosel
Now that we are one,
The beguine has just begun.
Now that we’re side by side,
The future looks so gay.
Now we are alibied when we say:
REFRAIN:
From this moment on,
You for me, dear,
Only two for tea, dear,
From this moment on.
From this happy day,
No more blue songs,
Only whoop-dee-doo songs,
From this moment on.
For you’ve got the love I need so much,
Got the skin I love to touch,
Got the arms to hold me tight,
Got the sweet lips to kiss good-night,
From this moment on,
You and I, babe,
We’ll be ridin’ high, babe,
Ev’ry care is gone
From this moment on.
REPEAT REFRAIN:
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein:
What Is This Thing Called Love? (1929 WAKE UP AND DREAM!)
From the London Revue, “WAKE UP AND DREAM!” 1929.
Words and Music by Cole Porter.
Copyright ©25 Mar 1929.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Lyrics:
VERSE 1
I was a humdrum person
Leading a life apart,
When love flew in through my window wide,
And quickened my humdrum heart.
Love flew in through my window,
I was so happy then.
But after love had stayed a while,
Love flew out again.
REFRAIN
What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve it’s mystery?
When should it make a fool of me?
I saw you there one wonderful day
You took my heart and threw it away.
That’s why I ask the Lawd in Heaven above,
What is this thing called love?
VERSE 2
You gave me days of sunshine,
You gave me nights of cheer;
You made my life an enchanted dream,
Till somebody else came near,
Somebody else came near you,
I felt the winter’s chill
And now I sit and wonder night and day,
Why I love you still?
REPEAT REFRAIN
Stephen Foster songs
Considered the first full-time songwriter in the U.S., Stephen Foster began churning them out in 1844. Here are 187 of his compositions in audio format.
Continue reading “Stephen Foster songs”Popular Songs of Nineteenth Century America – audios
Below are mp3s for the songs in an amazing book from Dover Publications. This book started the sheet music singer project.
The files were made by Werner Tomaschewski of Germany. His website was called Stephen Foster American Dreams. It is no longer online but we present his work here. Most of these songs are also in our long song list.
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