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HEART AND SOUL
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Larry Clinton
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(words by Frank Loesser, music by Hoagy Carmichael)
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3 versions charted in 1939: Larry Clinton (# 1); Eddy Duchin (# 12); and Al
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Donohue (# 16)
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Later charted as # 11 in 1952 by The Four Aces
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Also charted by Larry Maddox (1956, #57); The Cleftones (1961, #18); and
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Jan and Dean (1961, # 25)
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Heart and soul, I fell in love with you
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Heart and soul, the way a fool would do, madly
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Because you held me tight
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And stole a kiss in the night
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Heart and soul, I begged to be adored
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Lost control, and tumbled overboard, gladly
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That magic night we kissed
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There in the moon mist
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Oh! but your lips were thrilling, much too thrilling
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Never before were mine so strangely willing
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But now I see, what one embrace can do
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Look at me, it's got me loving you madly
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That little kiss you stole
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Held all my heart and soul
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>From the Reader's Digest "Treasury of Best Loved Songs":
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"During a brief period in the Swing Era, the Hollywood film
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studios produced a series of "short subjects" featuring dance
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bands, usually playing their established hits. But only one
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"short", A Song Is Born (1938), effectively introduced a hit.
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The band was Larry Clinton's, with vocalist Bea Wain and the
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song was "Heart and Soul", Carmichael and Loesser's first
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collaboration. Carmichael was an established composer at the
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time, but Loesser - later a creator of both words and music -
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was still only a lyricist. Carmichael told the Digest that
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the song kicked around the back rooms of Paramount Pictures
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for a month before it was assigned to any picture. During that
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period "the best use the song got was for Anthony Quinn's
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voice practice". This was before Quinn became a star. The
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writers were disappointed when their song was launched in a
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minor production, but the disappointment was short-lived as
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Clinton's recording became a big seller."
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Heart And Soul
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| Jan & Dean |
