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The Songs I Love

(# 59 top pop album)

RCA Victor LSP-2708
Jul / 1963

Produced by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore

Cover image of The Songs I Love

Mitchell Ayres Orchestra
Recorded:
Mar/1963, Webster Hall, NY City
Engineering: Bob Simpson

1.

The Songs I Love

Sammy Cahn - James VanHeusen

© Cahn Music, ASCAP

The songs they're playin' that we both romanced to
Those lovely songs we stayed up late and danced to
They taught me where my heart belongs
These are the songs I love

The tender melodies we often sighed to
That special one we said goodbye and cried to
Because they righted all the wrongs
These are the songs I love

The happy rhymes the underscored
The happy times when we found spring together
The pretty themes that underscored the pretty dreams
That make us cling together

These songs we'll call our own and face the years with
We'll face the laughter yes and face the tears with
They'll help us through the rain and shine
These songs I love because these songs are yours and mine
[ instrumental ]
They'll help us through the rain and shine
These songs I love because these songs are yours and mine

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2.

I Left My Heart In San Francisco

Douglas Cross - George Cory

© General Music, ASCAP

I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill it calls to me
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars
The morning fog may chill the air I don't care

My heart waits there in San Francisco
Above the blue and windy sea
When I come home to you San Francisco
Your golden sun will shine for me
[ instrumental ]
When I come home to you San Francisco
Your golden sun will shine for me

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3.

Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)

Bart Howard

© Almanac Music, ASCAP

Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars

In other words hold my hand
In other words darling kiss me
Fill my heart with song and let me sing forever more
You are all I long for all I worship and adore
In other words please be true
In other words I love you
[ instrumental ]
In other words hold my hand
In other words darling kiss me
Fill my heart with song and let me sing forever more
You are all I long for all I worship and adore
In other words please be true
In other words I love you

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4.

Desafinado (Slightly Out Of Tune)

Newton Mendonca - Antonio Jobim

© Bendig Music, BMI

Love is like a never ending melody
Poets have compared it to a symphony
A symphony conducted by the lighting of the moon
But our song of love is slightly out of tune

Once your kisses raised me to a fever pitch
Now the orchestration doesn't seem so rich
Seems to me you've changed the tune we used to sing
Like the Bossa Nova love should swing

We used to harmonize two souls in perfect time
Now the song is different and the words don't even rhyme
‘Cause you forgot the melody our hearts would always croon
What good's a heart that's slightly out of tune

Tune your heart to mine the way it used to be
Join with me in harmony and sing a song of love
We're bound to get in tune again before too long
There'll be no desafinado when your heart belongs to me completely
Then you won't be slightly out of tune you'll sing along with me
[ instrumental ]
Tune your heart with mine the way it used to be
Join with me in harmony and sing a song of love
We're bound to get in tune again before too long
There'll be no desafinado when your heart belongs to me completely
Then you won't be slightly out of tune you'll sing along with me
Sing along with me
Sing along with me

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5.

This Is All I Ask

Gordon Jenkins

© Robbins Music, ASCAP

Beautiful girl walk a little slower when you walk by me
Lingering sunset stay a little longer with the lonely sea
Children everywhere when you shoot at bad men shoot at me
Take me to that strange enchanted land grown-ups seldom understand

Wandering rainbow leave a bit of color for my heart to own
Stars in the sky make my wish come true before the night has flown
And let the music play as long as there's a song to sing
And I will stay younger than spring

(Wandering rainbow leave a bit of color for my heart to own
Stars in the sky make my wish come true before the night has flown)
And let the music play as long as there's a song to sing
And I will stay younger in ever way younger
Yes I will stay younger than the spring

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6.

The Hawaiian Wedding Song

Al Hoffman - Dick Manning - Charles King

© Pickwick Music, ASCAP

(Kaie a ahou ke kalli nei
Ahee ah ee aha cou aloha)

This is the moment of sweet aloha
I will love you longer than forever
Promise me that you will leave me never

Here and now dear all my love I vow dear
Promise me that you will leave me never
I will love you longer than forever

Now that we are one (my darling)
Clouds won't hide the sun (my love)
Blue skies of Hawaii smile on this our wedding day

I do (I do) love you (love you)
With all my heart
I do (I do) love you (love you)
With all my heart

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7.

Days Of Wine And Roses

Johnny Mercer - Henry Mancini

© Witmark And Sons, ASCAP

(The days of wine and roses)

The days of wine and roses
Laugh and run away like a child at play
Through the meadowland toward a closing door
A door marked never more that wasn't there before

The lonely night discloses
Just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you
[ instrumental ]
(The lonely night discloses
Just a passing breeze filled with memories)
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you

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8.

Carnival (Manha De Carnaval)

George Weiss - Luiz Bonfa - Antonio Maria

© Ross-Jungnickel Music, ASCAP

I'll sing to the sun in the sky
I'll sing till the sun rises high
Carnival time is here
Magical time of year
And as the time draws near
Dreams lift my heart

I'll sing as I play my guitar
I'll cling to a dream from afar
Will love come my way this Carnival day
And stay here in my heart
[ instrumental ]
I'll sing as I play my guitar
I'll cling to my dream from afar
Will love come my way this Carnival day
And stay here in my heart

Will true love come my way on this Carnival day
Or will I be alone with my dream

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9.

My Coloring Book

Fred Ebb - John Kander

© Sunbeam Music, BMI

If you'll admire my coloring book and lots of people do
I've a new one for you
Almost unusual coloring book the kind you'll never see
Crayons ready crayons set begin to color me

These are the eyes that watched her as she walked away
Color them grey
This is the heart that thought she will always be true
Color it blue

These are the arms that held her and touched her then lost her somehow
Color them empty now
This is the tie I wore until he came between
Color it green

This is the room I'm sleeping and walking and weeping and hiding that nobody sees
Color it lonely please
This is the girl the one I depended upon
Color her gone

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10.

I Wanna Be Around

Johnny Mercer - Sadie Vimmerstedt

© Commander Pub, ASCAP

I wanna be around to pick up the pieces
When somebody breaks your heart
Some somebody twice as smart as I
A somebody who will swear to be true
Like you used to do with me
Who'll leave you to learn that misery loves company
Wait and see

I wanna be around to see how he does it
When he breaks your heart to bits
Let's see if the puzzle fits so fine
And that's when I'll discover that revenge is sweet
As I sit there applaudin' from a front row seat
When somebody breaks your heart like you broke mine
[ instrumental ]
And that's when I'll discover that revenge is sweet
As I sit there applaudin' from a front row seat
When somebody breaks your heart like you broke mine

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11.

When I Lost You

Irving Berlin

© Irving Berlin Music, ASCAP

I lost the sunshine and roses
I lost the heavens of blue
I lost the beautiful rainbow
I lost the morning dew

I lost the angel who gave me
Summer the whole winter through
I lost the gladness that turned into sadness
When I lost you
[ instrumental ]
I lost the angel who gave me
Summer the whole winter through
I lost the gladness that turned into sadness
When I lost you

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12.

What Kind Of Fool Am I

Leslie Bricusse - Anthony Newley

© Ludlow Music, BMI

What kind of fool am I who never fell in love
It seems that I'm the only one that I have been thinking of
What kind of land is this an empty shell
A lonely cell in which an empty heart must dwell

What kind of lips are these that lied with every kiss
That whispered empty words of love that left me alone like this
Why can't I fall in love like any other man
And maybe then I'll know what kind of fool I am
[ instrumental ]
Why can't I fall in love like any other man
And maybe then I'll know what kind of fool I am

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