"Acércate Más" is a 1946 hit song by

Osvaldo Farrés Osvaldo Farrés (; January 13, 1903 – December 22, 1985) was a Cuban songwriter and composer best known for having written the popular songs "", "", "", and "". Early life Farrés was born in 1903 in the small city of Quemado de Güines ...

. The song was translated into English as "Come Closer to Me," in the film

Easy to Wed ''Easy to Wed'' is a 1946 Technicolor American musical comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell, and starring Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, and Keenan Wynn. The screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley is an adaptation of the screenplay of th ...

by Carlos Ramírez. The song was covered by

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in 1958, in both English and Spanish. This version peaked at number 38 on the

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. In 2013, a posthumous duet was created with his daughter

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