Falling in Love with Love
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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. The song is set to a waltz, but the lyrics "remind his [Hart] listeners of the show's skeptical tone".
film
, it was performed by Allan Jones.
It was sung by Bernadette Peters
in Rodgers and Hammerstein
's Cinderella (1997) as the Stepmother.
Chelsea Krombach
http://www.pkorecords.com/cds/krombach/krombach.htm sings it on her debut album Profile (2004).
Show tune
A show tune is a popular song originally written as part of the score of a "show" , especially if the piece in question has become a "standard", more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context...
from the Rodgers and Hart
Rodgers and Hart
Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership of composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist Lorenz Hart...
musical The Boys from Syracuse
The Boys from Syracuse
The Boys from Syracuse is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, based on William Shakespeare's play, The Comedy of Errors, as adapted by librettist George Abbott. The score includes swing and other contemporary rhythms of the 1930s. The show was the first musical...
, where it was introduced by Muriel Angelus
Muriel Angelus
Muriel Angelus was a British-born stage, musical theatre and film actress.Born Muriel Angelus Findlay London, England to Scottish parentage, she developed a sweet-voiced soprano at an early age...
. The musical premiered on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
in 1938. The song is set to a waltz, but the lyrics "remind his [Hart] listeners of the show's skeptical tone".
Performances
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film
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
, it was performed by Allan Jones.
It was sung by Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters is an American actress, singer and children's book author from Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings...
in Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were a well-known American songwriting duo, usually referred to as Rodgers and Hammerstein. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s during what is considered the golden age of the medium...
's Cinderella (1997) as the Stepmother.
Chelsea Krombach
Chelsea Krombach
-Biography:Krombach recorded two solo albums, Look for the Silver Lining and Profile Both of her albums are all-jazz and recorded live in one take with all real instruments...
http://www.pkorecords.com/cds/krombach/krombach.htm sings it on her debut album Profile (2004).
Notable recordings
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