"If This Isn't Love" is a
popular
Popularity or social status is the quality of being well liked, admired or well known to a particular group.
Popular may also refer to:
In sociology
* Popular culture
* Popular fiction
* Popular music
* Popular science
* Populace, the total ...
1946
song
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetit ...
composed by
Burton Lane with lyrics written by
E. Y. Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg (born Isidore Hochberg; April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981) was an American popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" ( ...
. The song was published in
1946 and introduced by
Ella Logan and
Donald Richards the following year in the
Broadway
Broadway may refer to:
Theatre
* Broadway Theatre (disambiguation)
* Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
**Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
musical ''
Finian's Rainbow''.
Recorded versions
*
Buddy Clark
Buddy Clark (born Samuel Goldberg, July 26, 1912 – October 1, 1949) was an American popular singer of the Big Band era. He had some success in the 1930s, but his career truly blossomed in the late 1940s, after his return from service in Worl ...
(recorded on November 12, 1946, released on Columbia 37223).
*
Ella Logan, Donald Richards and the Lynn Murray Singers (recorded on April 7, 1947)
*
The Clayton Brothers
The Clayton Brothers is the brain child of saxophonist Jeff Clayton. According to Jeff, some 30 years ago he and his brother, Grammy Award winning bassist John Clayton, agreed to support each other's preferred formats. Jeff's love of small groups ...
- included in their album ''Siblingity'' (2000).
*
Alma Cogan
Alma Angela Cohen Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.
C ...
- a single release in 1958.
*
Michael Feinstein
Michael Jay Feinstein (born September 7, 1956) is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an archivist and interpreter for the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for cele ...
- included in his album ''
Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway
''Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway'' is a 2000 album by American vocalist Michael Feinstein arranged by Alan Broadbent and John Oddo. It was Feinstein's third album for the Concord label.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded ...
'' (2000)
*
Gracie Fields (recorded on September 1, 1947).
*
Don Francks,
Petula Clark
Petula Sally Olwen Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress, and composer. She has one of the longest serving careers of a British singer, spanning more than seven decades.
Clark's professional career began during the ...
,
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer. He is often called the greatest dancer in Hollywood film history.
Astaire's career in stage, film, and tele ...
(
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Janu ...
Film Soundtrack
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)
*
Geraldo & his Orchestra (vocal: Denny Vaughan) (
1948).
*
Stan Kenton
Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades. Though K ...
- for his album ''
Finian's Rainbow'' (1968).
*
Dean Martin - for the album ''
Finian's Rainbow'' (1963)
*
Karen Mason - for her album ''Not So Simply Broadway'' (1995).
*
Biff McGuire
William "Biff" McGuire (October 25, 1926 – March 9, 2021) was an American actor. Best known as Inspector Kramer in ''Nero Wolfe'' (1979).
Early years
McGuire attended Hamden High School and the University of Massachusetts, where he studied agr ...
,
Jeannie Carson,
Bobby Howes
Bobby Howes (4 August 1895 – 27 April 1972) was a British entertainer who was a leading musical comedy performer in London's West End theatres in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
Born in Battersea, Surrey, his parents were Robert William H ...
(
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Jan ...
Broadway Revival)
*
Frank Sinatra (
1955) recorded for the abandoned animated film version of ''Finian's Rainbow'', released on ''
Frank Sinatra in Hollywood 1940-1964'' (
2002)
*
,
Max von Essen
Max von Essen (born January 11, 1974) is an American stage and screen actor, and vocalist.
Life and career
Raised on Long Island, von Essen is a graduate of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York. He attended the University o ...
and
Jonathan Freeman in the Footlights recording of the
Irish Repertory Theatre
The Irish Repertory Theatre is an Off Broadway theatre founded in 1988.
History
The Irish Repertory Theatre was founded by Ciarán O'Reilly and Charlotte Moore, which opened its doors in September 1988,http://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations ...
production of the show (2004).
*
Sarah Vaughan - for her album ''
Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows'' (1958)
References
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Songs from musicals
Songs with lyrics by Yip Harburg
1946 songs
Songs with music by Burton Lane