I'll Walk with God
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"I'll Walk with God" is a popular
song
with music by Nicholas Brodzsky
and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
, published in 1954
. This song is best known from the movie The Student Prince
, in which the title character, played by Edmund Purdom, but sung by tenor
Mario Lanza
, performs this song at the coffin of his grandfather, the king of Carlsburg.
Popular music
Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...
song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
with music by Nicholas Brodzsky
Nicholas Brodzsky
Nicholas Brodszky, was a composer of popular songs. He was born in Odessa , and died in Hollywood, California....
and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Paul Francis Webster
Paul Francis Webster was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.-Biography:...
, published in 1954
1954 in music
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. This song is best known from the movie The Student Prince
The Student Prince (film)
The Student Prince is a 1954 CinemaScope color film musical featuring, as the credits read, "the singing voice of Mario Lanza". Lanza had become embroiled in a bitter dispute with MGM during production and the studio dismissed him. Under the terms of the settlement with Lanza, MGM retained the...
, in which the title character, played by Edmund Purdom, but sung by tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza
right|thumb|[[MGM]] still, circa 1949Mario Lanza was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian emigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16....
, performs this song at the coffin of his grandfather, the king of Carlsburg.