unknown

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 18 in 1957
-previously charted in 1947 by vaughn monroe (#1)
-previously charted in 1948 by buddy clark (#5); bing crosby (#10); and jimmy
-dorsey (also #10)
-words and music by bob russell and carl sigman


Dance, ballerina, dance
And do your pirouette in rhythm with your achin' heart
Dance, ballerina, dance
You mustn't once forget a dancer has to dance the part

Whirl, ballerina, whirl
And just ignore the chair that's empty in the second row
This is your moment, girl
Although he's not out there applauding as you steal the show

Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn

And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance
Dance, dance!

<instrumental interlude>
Whirl ballerina
<instrumental interlude>

Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn

And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance

Dance

(bob russell, carl sigman)


Dance, ballerina, dance
And do your pirouette in rhythm with your achin' heart.
Dance, ballerina, dance
You mustn't once forget a dancer has to dance the part.


Whirl, ballerina, whirl
And just ignore the chair that's empty in the second row.
This is your moment, girl,
Although he's not out there applauding as you steal the show.


Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead.
I guess that's your concern,
We live and learn.


And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance.
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance
Dance, dance!




Whirl, ballerina!




Once you said his love must wait its turn,
You wanted fame instead.
I guess that's your concern,
We live and learn.


And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance!


Dance!

(don george, nathaniel cole)


Wa-oo-oo, wa-oo-oo,
Wa-oo wa-oo wa-oo wa-ay...
Wa-oo-oo, wa-oo-oo,
Wa-oo wa-oo wa-oo wa-ay...


Sittin' by de ocean
Me heart, she feel so sad,
Sittin' by de ocean,
Me heart, she feel so sad...
Don't got de money
To take me back to trinidad.


Fine calypso woman,
She cook me shrimp and rice,
Fine calypso woman,
She cook me shrimp and rice...
Dese yankee hot dogs
Don't treat me stomach very nice.


In trinidad, one dollar buy
Papaya juice, banana pie,
Six coconut, one female goat,
An' plenty fish to fill de boat.


One bushel bread, one barrel wine,
An' all de town, she come to dine.
But here is bad, one dollar buy
Cup of coffee, ham on rye.


Me throat she sick from necktie,
Me feet hurt from shoes.
Me pocket full of empty,
I got calypso blues.


Dese yankee girl give me big scare,
Is black de root, is blonde de hair.
Her eyelash false, her face is paint,
And pads are where de girl she ain't!


She jitterbug when she should waltz,
I even think her name is false.
But calypso girl is good a lot,
Is what you see, is what she got.


Sittin' by de ocean
Me heart, she feel so sad,
Sittin' by de ocean,
Me heart, she feel so sad...
Don't got de money
To take me back to trinidad.


Wa-oo-oo, wa-oo-oo,
Wa-oo wa-oo wa-oo wa-ay...
Wa-oo-oo, wa-oo-oo,
Wa-oo wa-oo wa-oo wa-ay...


(repeat chant to fade)

(harold arlen, billy rose, e. y. harburg)


Said it is only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.


Say it is only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.


Without your love,
It's a honky-tonk parade.
Without your love,
It's a melody played in a penny arcade.


It's a barnum and bailey world,
Just as phony as it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.


~interlude~


Without your love,
It's a honky-tonk parade.
Without your love,
It's a melody played in a penny arcade.


It's a barnum and bailey world
Just as phony as it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me.

(jerome kern, dorothy fields)


Pick yourself up...
Take a deep breath...
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.


Nothing's impossible, i have found
For when my chin is on the ground.
I pick myself up,
Dust myself off
And start all over again.


Don't lose your confidence
If you slip
Be grateful for a pleasant trip
And pick yourself up,
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.


Work like a soul inspired
Until the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired,
But you'll be a man, my son.


Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again?
So take a deep breath...
Pick yourself up...
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.


~interlude~


Work like a soul inspired
Till the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired,
But you'll be a man, my son.


Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again?
So take a deep breath...
Pick yourself up...
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.

Nat king cole
(cole porter)
("can-can")

Every time i look down on this timeless town
Whether blue or gray be her skies.
Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears,
More and more do i realize:

I love paris in the springtime.
I love paris in the fall.
I love paris in the winter when it drizzles,
I love paris in the summer when it sizzles.

I love paris every moment,
Every moment of the year.
I love paris, why, oh why do i love paris?
Because my love is near.

(dorothy wayne, ray rasch)


He who hesitates
When it comes to love
He will never know
The wonder of it all.
A kiss -- a sigh,
You'll never know
If you don't try.


He who hesitates
When her eyes say yes,
Just how much you've missed
You will never guess.


Your chance
Goes by
And it's too late
To wonder why.


Dreams cannot replace
The wonder of her smile.
The warmth of her embrace,
Don't let it
Escape you.


When you fall in love
And you feel the glow,
Take her in your arms
Never let her go.
Don't be
The one
To hesitate with love.


~interlude~


A kiss -- a smile
You'll never know
If you don't try.


When you fall in love
And you feel the glow,
Take her in your arms
Never let her go.
Don't be
The one
To hesitate...


Don't be
The one
Who hesitates...


Don't be
The one
Who hesitates...
With love.

(harry warren, al dubin)


I walk along the street of sorrow,
The boulevard of broken dreams.
Where gigolo and gigolette
Can take a kiss without regret
So they forget their broken dreams.


You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow,
When you behold your shattered dreams.
And gigolo and gigolette
Awake to find their eyes are wet
With tears that tell of broken dreams.


Here is where you'll always find me,
Always walking up and down.
But i left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town.


The joy you find here, you borrow,
You cannot keep it long, it seems.
But gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
The boulevard of broken dreams.


~interlude~


Here is where you'll always find me,
Always walking up and down.
But i left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town.


The joy you find here, you borrow,
You cannot keep it long, it seems.
But gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
The boulevard of broken dreams.

(irving berlin)


Say it isn't so...
Say it isn't so.
Everyone is saying you don't love me,
Say it isn't so.


Everywhere i go,
Everyone i know
Whispers that you're growing tired of me,
Say it isn't so.


People say that you
Found somebody new,
And it won't be long before you leave me,
Say it isn't true.


Say that everything is still okay,
That's all i want to know.
And what they're saying,
Say it isn't so.


People say passing by
Say he's younger than i
And it won't be long before you leave me,
Tell me it's a lie.


Say that everything is still okay,
That's all i want to know.
And what they're saying,
Say it isn't so.

(peggy lee, victor young)


I went to londontown
To clear up my mind,
Then on to paris
For the fun i couldn't find.
I found i couldn't leave my memories behind.
Where can i go without you?


Tried seeing singapore,
But that wouldn't do.
Went to vienna,
But i found you there, too.
Even in switzerland, your memory came through.
Where can i go without you?


I wanted travel, i wanted romance,
I chased that rainbow across the sea.
I'm tired of faces, and quaint old places
If you can't be there with me.


Back on the boat again
And farewell to france,
Farewell to londontown,
They haven't a chance.
I'll trade the sights i've seen
For just one loving glance.
Where can i go without you?


~interlude~


I'm tired of faces, and quaint old places
If you can't be there with me.


Back on the boat again
And farewell to france,
Farewell to londontown,
They haven't a chance.
I'll trade the sights i've seen
For just one loving glance.
Where can i go without you?

(billy strayhorn)


I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life...
From jazz and cocktails.


The girls i knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distant gay traces
That used to be there you could see where they'd been washed away
By too many through the day...
Twelve o'clock tales.


Then you came along with your siren of song
To tempt me to madness!
I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for me.


Ah yes! i was wrong...
Again,
I was wrong.


Life is lonely again,
And only last year everything seemed so sure.
Now life is awful again,
A troughful of hearts could only be a bore.
A week in paris will ease the bite of it,
All i care is to smile in spite of it.


I'll forget you, i will
While yet you are still burning inside my brain.
Romance is mush,
Stifling those who strive.
I'll live a lush life in some small dive...
And there i'll be, while i rot
With the rest of those whose lives are lonely, too..

(frankie laine, fred karger)


You're my magnificent obsession
The greatest wonder on this earth.
The taj mahal and other spendors
To me really have no worth.


You're my magificent possession,
A treasure lent me from above.
As long as i have breath within me,
You'll be my one and only love.


(interlude)


You're my magificent possession,
A treasure lent me from above.
As long as i have breath within me,
You'll be my one and only love.

(jimmy van heusen, johnny burke)


Love is funny, or it's sad,
Or it's quiet, or it's mad.
It's a good thing, or it's bad,
But beautiful...


Beautiful to take a chance
And if you fall, you fall,
And i'm thinking,
I wouldn't mind at all.


Love is tearful, or it's gay,
It's a problem, or it's play.
It's a heartache either way,
But beautiful...


And i'm thinking, if you were mine,
I'd never let you go.
And that would be but beautiful,
I know.


~interlude~


And i'm thinking, if you were mine,
I'd never let you go.
And that would be but beautiful,
That would be but beautiful...
I know.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position #2 in 1953
-competing versions charted by ralph marterie (6) and eileen barton (#17)
-also charted by tab smith in 1957 (#89)
-also charted in 1959 by carl mann (#57)
-words and music by lew douglas, cliff parman, and frank lavere


Pretend you're happy when you're blue
It isn't very hard to do
And you'll find happiness without an end
Whenever you pretend

Remember anyone can dream
And nothing's bad as it may seem
The little things you haven't got
Could be a lot if you pretend

You'll find a love you can share
One you can call all your own
Just close your eyes, she'll be there
You'll never be alone

And if you sing this melody
You'll be pretending just like me
The world is mine, it can be yours, my friend
So why don't you pretend?

<instrumental interlude>

And if you sing this melody
You'll be pretending just like me
The world is mine, it can be yours, my friend
So why don't you pretend?

(and i'll be there at no particular time)
(pyle/robinson/terker)


Baby, we two can't get along,
I'm never right, you're never wrong.
So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time.


Baby, it just ain't common sense
Mixin' up love with arguments.
So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time.


I'm all fed up on stormy weather,
I'm going where it's june.
Here's hopin' i see you never
'cause if i do, that will be too soon.


Now that i've put my heart on ice,
Missing you will seem paradise.
So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time.


~interlude~


You'd better bring along your glasses
In case i'm hard to find,
You'll wish you could see before you
As clearly as you can see behind.


You can turn back in retropect
Of the times you stuck out your neck.
So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time.


All we do is make up
Then quarrel all over again,
But this is it ~ the breakup
From now on, you knew me when...


So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time!

(lewis/weissman/lange)


Is it better
To have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all?
I wonder (i wonder),
I wonder (i wonder),
As my lonely teardrops fall.


Is it better
To have kissed and lost,
Than never to have felt the glow?
I wonder (i wonder),
I wonder (i wonder),
Then why do i miss you so?


Only those who've lost at love
Would know how a heart can cry.
And they would know the meaning of
Hearing a last goodbye.


Is it better
To have loved and lost,
Than never had my dream come true?
I wonder (i wonder),
I wonder (i wonder),
'cause i'm still in love with you.


I wonder (i wonder),
I wonder (i wonder),
'cause i'm still in love with you.

(d. kahn, s. styme)




This is the end of a beautiful friendship,
It ended a moment ago.
This is the end of a beautiful friendship,
I know,
'cause your eyes told me so.




We've always been
Like sister and brother,
Until tonight,
When we looked at each other.




That was the end of a beautiful friendship,
And just the beginning of love.




~interlude~




That was the end of a beautiful friendship,
And just the beginning of love!

(johnny mercer, victor schertzinger)


Was it in tahiti?
Were we on the nile?
Long, long ago,
Say an hour or so
I recall that i saw your smile.


I remember you,
You're the one who made
My dreams come true
A few kisses ago.


I remember you,
You're the one who said
"i love you, too," i do.
Didn't you know?


I remember, too,
A distant bell,
And stars that fell like rain
Out of the blue.


When my life is through,
And the angels ask me to recall
The thrill of them all,
Then i shall tell them
I remember you.

(joe ricardel, redd evans)


I don't want french fried potatoes,
Red ripe tomatoes,
I'm never satisfied.
I want the frim fram sauce with the ausen fay
With chafafa on the side.


I don't want pork chops and bacon,
That won't awaken
My appetite inside.
I want the frim fram sauce with the ausen fay
With chafafa on the side.


A fella really got to eat
And a fella should eat right.
Five will get you ten
I'm gonna feed myself right tonight.


I don't want fish cakes and rye bread,
You heard what i said.
Waiter, please serve mine fried
I want the frim fram sauce with the ausen fay
With chafafa on the side.


~interlude~




A fella really got to eat
And a fella should eat right.
Five will get you ten
I'm gonna feed myself right tonight.


I don't want fish cakes and rye bread,
You heard what i said.
Waiter, please serve mine fried
I want the frim fram sauce with the ausen fay
With chafafa on the side.


(now if you don't have it, just bring me a check for the water!)

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 2 in 1962
-words and music by noel sherman and joe sherman


Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose
Why you ramble, no one knows
Wild and wind-blown, that's how you've grown
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose?

Ramble on, ramble on
When your ramblin' days are gone
Who will love you with a love true
When your ramblin' days are through?

Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose
Why i want you, heaven knows
Though i love you with a love true
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose?

Spoken
<one more time, everybody, now>

Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose
Why i want you, heaven knows
Though i love you with a love true
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose?

(fisher/segal)


I keep goin' back to joe's
To that table in the corner,
Sippin' wine and staring at the door.
Our old waiter knows we're through,
Still he sets a place for you
Everything the way it was before.


I keep goin' back to joe's,
But the man who plays piano
Never plays your favorite melody.
Joe keeps busy at the bar,
Never asks me where you are.
He was there when you walked out on me.


Now i pray you'll walk back in,
And you'll say what fools we've been,
And we'll celebrate a happy new beginning.
Chances are you'll never show,
But you'll know just where to find me
Every night until it's time to close.


Just in case you miss me, too,
I'll be there to welcome you.
That's why i keep going back...
That's why i keep goin' back...
To joe's.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 23 in 1955
-words and music by hal hester and barry parker


If i find peace of mind in the sand and the sea
There's a hope in my heart that you'll soon be with me
There's a prayer that i share with the sand and the sea
And it cries "come to me, come to me."

As my eyes search the skies from the edge of the shore
You are here in my arms for a moment or more
Then a tear rushes down to the sand and the sea
And it cries "come to me, come to me."

But as long as there's sand, as long as there's sea
As long as there's time i'll wait hopefully
As long as there's heaven up above
Let the sand and the sea bring my love to me

But as long as there's sand, as long as there's sea
As long as there's time i'll wait hopefully
As long as there's heaven up above
Let the sand and the sea bring my love to me

-artist: nat king cole
-words by mack gordon and music by harry warren
-introduced by dick haymes in the 1945 film "diamond horseshoe", also starring
-betty grable and phil silvers
-charted in 1945 by haymes at # 7 and by harry james at #12
-charted in 1966 by chris montez at # 16


Each time i look at you is like the first time
Each time you're near me the thrill is new
And there is nothing that i wouldn't do for
The rare delight of the sight of you for

The more i see you, the more i want you
Somehow this feeling just grows and grows
With every sigh i become more mad about you
More lost without you and so it goes

Can you imagine how much i love you?
The more i see you as years go by
I know the only one for me can only be you
My arms won't free you, my heart won't try

<instrumental interlude>

I know the only one for me can only be you
My arms won't free you, my heart won't try

-artist: nat king cole
-words by ted koehler and music by harold arlen
-title song from the 1933 film, sung by art jarrett and also by ann sothern
-instrumental version by carmen cavallaro appeared in the 1956 film "the eddy
-duchin story"
-charted in 1934 by eddy duchin (#1), fred rich (#8), and harold arlen (#19)
-charted at # 21 in 1967 by peaches and herb


Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love?
Our hearts are made of it
Let's take a chance
Why be afraid of it?

Let's close our eyes
And make our own paradise
Little we know of it
Still we can try
To make a go of it

We might have been meant for each other
To be or not to be, let our hearts discover

Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love?
Now is the time for it
While we are young
Let's fall in love

We might have been meant for each other
To be or not to be, let our hearts discover

Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love?
Now is the time for it
While we are young
Let's fall in love

- artist: nat king cole (whose recording, if released
As a single, did not chart)
- doris day's version hit #20 in 1952 and
The lettermen's went to # 7 in 1962
- words and music by edward heyman and victor young


When i fall in love it will be forever
Or i'll never fall in love
In a restless world like this is
Love is ended before it's begun
And too many moonlight kisses
Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun

When i give my heart it will be completely
Or i'll never give my heart
And the moment i can feel that you feel that way too
Is when i fall in love with you.

<instrumental interlude first two lines>

And the moment i can feel that you feel that way too
Is when i fall in love with you.

(m. gordon, h. revel)


Oh...there's a lull in my life.
It's just a void, an empty space,
When you are not in my embrace.


Oh...there's a lull in my life.
The moment that you go away,
There is no night, there is no day.


The clock stops ticking,
The world stops turning.
Everything stops
But that flame in my heart
That keeps burning...burning...


Oh...there's a lull in my life.
No matter i may pretend,
I know that you alone can end
The ache in my heart,
The call of my arms...
The lull in my life.

(louis jordan, timmie rodgers)


Knock me a kiss, you'll never miss
When i'm ready to go.
But if you can't smile and say yes,
Please don't cry and say no!


Squeeze me a squoze in these fine clothes,
Mmmm...i love you so.
But if you can't smile and say yes,
Please don't cry and say no!


When i ask for a date, the answer is no.
You don't know what you're saying.
Don't you know the war's on,
Everything is rationed,
How 'bout that jive, keep me alive?


Baby, let bygones be bygones,
'cause men are scarce as nylons.
And if you can't smile and say yes,
Please don't cry and say no!


~interlude~


Baby, let bygones be bygones,
'cause men are scarce as nylons.
And if you can't smile and say yes,
Please don't cry and say no, no, no, baby
Please don't cry and say no.

(dorothy fields, jimmy mchugh)


Don't blame me
For falling in love with you.
I'm under your spell
But how can i help it?
Don't blame me.


Can't you see
When you do the things you do
If i can't conceal
The thrill that i'm feeling,
Don't blame me.


I can't help it
If that doggone moon above
Makes me need
Someone like you to love.


Blame your kiss
As sweet as a kiss can be,
And blame all your charms
That melt in my arms,
But don't blame me.


(interlude)


Blame your kiss
As sweet as a kiss can be,
And blame all your charms
That melt in my arms,
But don't blame me.


(interlude)


Blame all your charms
That melt in my arms,
But don't blame me.

(van heusen, cahn, fuller)


What good is a dream,
A plan or a scheme,
The rainbow that you pursue?
It's everything... and it's nothing
Without someone to tell it to.


How eager you are
To get to that star,
But after the journey's through,
You're only a lonely dreamer
Without someone to tell it to.


There'll be blue days,
Hard to get through days,
Days when you'll just want to die.
Soon you're older,
And the world's colder,
When there's no shoulder to cry on.


Castles in air
Are empty and bare
With no one to share the view.
The moonlight is merely moonlight,
There's no magic in "i love you"
Without someone
Someone to tell it to.


~interlude~


The moonlight is merely moonlight,
There's no magic in "i love you"
Without someone
Someone to tell it to.

(r. b. sherman)


When you raise your eyes and make believe,
All the stars come out and paint a world of blue.
There's my heart right up your sleeve
Waiting all for you.


When you smile on me, the world is mine,
And the dreams i dream, i know will all come true.
Every care becomes divine
Waiting all for you.


My heart is beating to the old refrain
When i'm alone with you.
My heart's repeating, "i'm in love again"
Can't we hold a rendez-vous?


You're the dreams i dream, the song i sing
You're the stars and moon and nearly everything.
Life would be a symphony,
Waiting all for you.


~interlude~


My heart is beating to the old refrain
When i'm alone with you.
My heart's repeating, "i'm in love again"
Can't we hold a rendez-vous?


You're the dreams i dream, the song i sing
You're the stars and moon and nearly everything.
Life would be a symphony,
Living all for you.

- words by harold adamson and leo mccarey, music by harry warren

Our love affair is a wondrous thing
That we'll rejoice in remembering
Our love was born with our first embrace
And a page was torn out of time and space

Our love affair, may it always be
A flame to burn through eternity
So take my hand with a fervent prayer
That we may live and we may share
A love affair to remember

(harry warren, mack gordon)


This is our last dance together,
Tonight soon will be long ago.
And in our moment of parting,
This is all i want you to know...


There will be many other nights like this,
And i'll be standing here with someone new.
There will be other songs to sing,
Another fall...another spring...
But there will never be another you.


There will be other lips that i may kiss,
But they won't thrill me,
Like yours used to do.
Yes, i may dream a million dreams,
But how can they come true,
If there will never, ever be another you?


~interlude~


Yes, i may dream a million dreams,
But how can they come true,
If there will never, ever be...
Another you?

(jimmy van heusen, mack david)


It wasn't my intention to eavesdrop,
But there a guy sat, two stools away,
And you could tell the bartender knew him
And that he'd been there some other day.
And while i sipped my libation,
I overheard his conversation...


"re---member
How i'd walk in,
What excitement there would be?
Never less than twenty people,
I had lots of friends, you see.


"i gave the party, i was the host.
Everyone loved me,
I was the most.


"champagne and plenty of it,
Real imported caviar,
And the hat check girl got fifty
Just for lighting my cigar.


"i kept 'em laughin', jokes by the yard.
Everyone loved me,
I was a card.


"and i had a girl,
A beautiful girl,
Her whole world, i think, consisted of mink
And diamonds and pearls.


"because she was mine,
I'd glitter and shine,
And life was a ball, and wasn't it all
So cozy 'n fine?


"but nothing lasts forever,
And the deepest well runs dry.
Just 'cause i've stopped rolling sevens
Doesn't mean i have to cry.


"i'll take that nightcap,
One more won't show.
And incidentally...maybe you know...
Where, oh, where, oh, where
Did everyone go?"


"where, oh, where, oh, where
Did everyone go?"

(con conrad, gladys dubois, russ columbo, paul gregory)


I can't forget the night i met you,
That's all i'm dreaming of.
Now you call it madness,
But i call it love.


You made a promise to be faithful
By all the stars above.
And now you call it madness,
But i call it love.


My heart is beating,
It keeps repeating for you constantly.
You're all i'm needing
And so i'm pleading,
Please come back to me.


You made a plaything out of romance,
What were you thinking of?
Now you call it madness,
But i call it love.


~interlude~


You made a plaything out of romance,
And what were you thinking of?
For now you call it madness,
But i call it love.

(ian grant, lionel rand)


Let there be you,
Let there be me.
Let there be oysters
Under the sea.


Let there be wind,
An occassional rain.
Chile con carne,
Sparkling champagne --


Let there be birds
To sing in the trees,
Someone to bless me
Whenever i sneeze.


Let there be cuckoos,
A lark and a dove,
But first of all, please --
Let there be love.


~interlude~


Let there be cuckoos,
A lark and a dove,
But first of all, please --
Let there be love...


Hmmm umm...love


Hmmm umm...love


Let there be love.

(charles singleton, rose marie mccoy)


I'd like to love you everyday,
If i may (if i may).
And dream dreams of you every night,
If i might (if i might).


And if i may, i'd like to say
I wish that you were mine.
If i had you, all i would do
Is adore you all the time.


I'd like to tell you of your charms everyday,
If i may (if i may).
I'd like to hold you in my arms every night,
If i might (if i might).


You're the object of my affections,
And if you have no objections,
I'd like to love you night and day,
If i may.


(i'd like to love you everyday,
If i may.
And dream dreams of you every night,
If i might.)


(and if i may, i'd like to say
I wish that you were mine.
If i had you, all i would do
Is adore you all the time.)


I'd like to tell you of your charms everyday,
If i may (if i may).
I'd like to hold you in my arms every night,
If i might (if i might).


You're the object of my affections,
And if you have no objections,
I'd like to love you night and day,
If i may.

(pete johnson, joe turner)


It was early one monday mornin',
And i was on my way to school.
It was early one monday mornin',
When i was on my way to school.
That was the mornin'
When i broke my mother's rule.


I've been in love with you, baby,
Before i learned to call your name.
I've been in love with you, baby,
Before i learned to call your name.
Now you're in love with someone else
I know that's gonna drive me insane!


~interlude~


Ooh wee baby,
You sure look good to me.
Ooh wee baby,
You sure look good to me.
Please tell me, pretty mama
Who can your great new lover be?

(james, miller)


I took a choo-choo-choo-choo fast as i could take a choo-choo,
I've come a long-long-long-long way to take you in my arms.
And now it's your first move to prove that you've been true,
Come to baby, do.


I've been away-way-way-way-way beyond the blue horizon,
I hope that no-no-no-no-no one else is on your mind.
So pucker up, my sweet, and meet your waterloo,
Come to baby, do.


Stop me from guessing,
T'ain't no time to tease.
Stop all your messin',
And put your beggin' baby at ease.


I wanna love-love-love you just the way i wanna love you,
I'm gonna try-try-try to try to make you understand.
When all is said and done, the one for me is you.
Come to baby, do.


~interlude~


Come to baby, do.


I've come a long, long way to kiss ya
You'll never know how much i missed ya.
Stop your teasin' --
Come to baby, do.

(edward heyman, victor young)


The sky may be starless,
The night may be moonless.
But deep in my heart there's a glow.
For deep in my heart
I know that you love me,
You love me, because you told me so.


Love letters straight from your heart
Keep us so near while we're apart.
I'm not alone in the night
When i can have all the love you write.


I memorize every line,
I kiss the name that you sign.
And darling, then i read again
Right from the start,
Love letters straight from your heart.


~interlude~


I memorize every line,
I kiss the name that you sign.
And darling, then i read again
Right from the start,
Love letters straight from your heart.

(strachey/marvell/ link)


A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places,
And still my heart has wings...
These foolish things remind me of you.


A tinkling piano in the next apartment,
Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant,
A fairground's painted swings...
These foolish things remind me of you.


You came, you saw,
You conquered me.
When you did that to me,
I knew somehow this had to be.


The winds of march that made my heart a dancer,
A telephone that rings,
And who's to answer?
Oh, how the ghost of you clings...
These foolish things remind me of you.


The first daffodil and long excited cables,
And candle lights on little corner tables,
And still my heart has wings...
These foolish things remind me of you.


The park at evening when the bell has sounded,
The 'ile-de-france' with all the gulls around it,
The beauty that is spring's...
These foolish things remind me of you.


How strange, how sweet
To find you still,
These things are dear to me,
They seem to bring you near to me.


The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations,
Silk stockings tossed aside, dance invitations.
Oh, how the ghost of you clings!
These foolish things remind me of you...


These foolish things remind me of you.

-artists: nat king cole and stubby kaye
-words by mack david and music by jerry livingston
-title song from the 1965 film starring jane fonda, lee marvin (who won an oscar
-for his dual role as a drunken lawman and his counterpart, outlaw kid sheleen)
-cole and kaye, as strolling minstrels, functioned as a greek chorus, commenting
-on the action (?)


Well now friends just lend an ear
For you're now about to hear
The ballad of cat ballou
It's a song that's newly made
And professus and the shade
And the sunrise kid are singin' it for you

Cat ballou, cat ballou

It's a hangin' day in wolf city, wyomin'
Wolf city, wyomin', eighteen ninety four
They're gonna drop cat ballou
Through the gallows floor

She killed a man in wolf city, wyomin'
Wolf city, wyomin', killed a man it's true
And that is why they're a-hangin'
Hangin' cat ballou

She has the smile of an angel
(fights like the devil)
The eyes of an angel
(bites like the devil)
The face of an angel
(i say she's the devil)
(she's mean and evil through and through)

Cat ballou, cat ball-ou-ou-ou
She's mean and evil through and through

With her outlaw band they're now tellin' a story
Now tellin' a story how she rode the plain
The wildest gal in the we-est
Since calamity jane

And today's the day that she's goin' to glory
She's goin' to glory for the way she sinned
They'll be a-speedin' her soul
On a wayward wind

She has the smile of an angel
(fights like the devil)
The eyes of an angel
(bites like the devil)
The face of an angel
(i say she's the devil)
(she's mean and evil through and through)

Cat ballou (cat ballou)
Cat ball-ou-ou-ou (cat ballou)
She's mean and evil through and through

Cat ballou, cat ball-ou-ou-ou
She's mean and evil through and through

(bart howard)


Poets often use many words
To say a simple thing.
It takes thought and time amd rhyme
To make a poem sing.


With music and words i've been playing
For you, i have written a song.
To be sure that you'll know what i'm saying,
I'll translate as i go along...


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.


~interlude~


Fill my heart with song,
And let 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.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 12 in 1951-52
-also charted in 1954 by the dick hyman trio (#29)
-also charted in 1959 by dinah washington (#17)
-also charted in a 1991 "duet" by nat and his daughter natalie cole.
-words and music by irving gordon



Unforgettable, that's what you are
Unforgettable though near or far
Like a song of love that clings to me
How the thought of you does things to me
Never before has someone been more

Unforgettable in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that i am unforgettable too

<instrumental interlude>

Unforgettable in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that i am unforgettable too

(cy coleman, carolyn leigh)


So these are the ropes,
The tricks of the trade,
The rules of the road.


You're one of the dopes
For whom they were made,
The rules of the road.


You follow that kiss and recklessly miss
A bend of the road,
Then suddenly this--
The end of the road.


So love is a hoax,
A glittering stream
Of little white lies.
But these are the jokes,
And what if they bring
The tears to your eyes?


Well, love often shows a funny return.
The brighter it glows,
The longer you burn.
And lord only knows
Love has little concern for the fools of the road.


But that's how it goes,
You live and you learn,
The rules of the road.


But that's how it goes,
You live and you learn,
The rules of the road.


And everyone knows that that's how it goes,
The rules of the road.

(v. youmans, i. caesar)


Sometimes i'm happy,
Sometimes i'm blue.
My disposition
Depends on you.


I never mind
The rain from the sky
If i can find
The sun in your eyes.


Sometimes i love you,
Sometimes i hate you.
But when i hate you,
It's 'cause i love you.


That's how i am
So what can i do?
I'm happy when i'm with you.


~interlude~


Sometimes i love you,
Sometimes i hate you.
But when i hate you,
It's 'cause i love you.


That's how i am
So what can i do?
I'm happy when i'm with you.
I'm happy when i'm with you.

(johnny burke)




Better face the facts, ol' buddy,
And be prepared to take the blow.
You don't have to sit and study,
It's something anyone should know.
Shake hands... get your hat...
And go.


You can praise her eyes,
And adore her hair.
But if love ain't there,
It ain't there.


And you can walk her home
In the warm spring air,
But if love ain't there,
It ain't there.


And you can look
With a longing in your look,
And try every method in the book
And worship the smile that kind of
Took you unaware.


And you can weep and sigh,
You can say, "unfair".
You can almost die of despair.
But if love ain't there,
It ain't there.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 1 for 8 weeks in 1950
-words and music by jay livingston and ray evans
-academy award winner from the film "captain carey, u.s.a" starring alan ladd


Mona lisa, mona lisa, men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you?
For that mona lisa strangeness in your smile?

Do you smile to tempt a lover, mona lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, mona lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?

<instrumental interlude>

Do you smile to tempt a lover, mona lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, mona lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?

Mona lisa, mona lisa

(words and music by gross and lawrence)
This lyrics are like performed by natalie cole

The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly
The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly
Then you and i came wandering by
And lost in a sigh were we
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 1 for 5 weeks in 1951
-words by sylvia dee and music by sid lippman
-also charted by donny osmond at # 13 in 1972


They try to tell us we're too young
Too young to really be in love
They say that love's a word
A word we've only heard
But can't begin to know the meaning of

And yet we're not too young to know
This love will last though years may go
And then some day they may recall
We were not too young at all

<instrumental interlude>

And yet we're not too young to know
This love will last though years may go
And then some day they may recall
We were not too young at all

(simon/bernier)


Blow...tropic wind...
Sing a song...through the trees.


Trees...sigh to me...
Soon my love...i will see.


Poinciana,
Your branches speak to me of love.
Pale moon is casting shadows from above.


Poinciana,
Somehow i feel the jungle beat
Within me, there grows a rhythmic, savage
Beat.


Love is everywhere, its magic perfume fills the air.
To and fro, you sway, my heart's in time,
I've learned to care.


Poinciana,
Though skies may turn from blue to gray,
My love will live for ever and a day.


Blow....tropic wind,
Sing a song through the trees.
Trees...sigh to me
Soon my love... i will see.


Poinciana...

(nathaniel cole, charlotte hawkins)


(with you on my mind,
With you on my mind)


With you on my mind,
How can i do anything?
With you on my mind,
All the time remembering.


Got an achin' heart
Thinkin' how it used to be.
With you on my mind,
When you gave your love to me.


I believed in your love (your love)
Thought i was your true love (true love),
But you found a new love (new love)
Who changed your mind (who changed your mind).


Now that you are gone,
I just seem to spend my time
Feelin' so forlorn,
With you always on my mind.


~interlude~


Now that you are gone,
I just seem to spend my time
Feelin' so forlorn,
With you on my mind.


Feelin' so forlorn,
With you always on my mind.
(with you on my mind)

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 10 in 1954
-competing versions charted by sunny gale (#19) and david whitfield (#25).
-also charted in 1959 by tony bennett (#73); in 1961 by timi yuro (#42); in
-1962 by ferrante and teicher (#94); and in 1965 by betty everett and jerry
-butler (#42).
Words by john turner and geoffrey parsons and music by charlie chaplin


Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile

<instrumental interlude>

That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile

-artist: nat king cole
-from his "the greatest of nat king cole" lp-capitol slb 6803
-peak billboard position # 16 in 1954
-words and music by sammy gallop and arthur kent


Someone longs for you and your caress
He's learning now how empty arms can be
Someone who used to know your kiss not long ago
That someone happens to be me

How he misses you and must confess
Without you he's like driftwood on the sea
He's just a dreamer who is still in love with you
That dreamer happens to be me

I'll never know just why we parted
It's more than i can comprehend
I only know when you departed
You started a night that has no end

Perhaps there'll come a time when you're alone
Your heart still haunted by a memory
If then you chance to find there's someone on your mind
I hope it happens to be me

<instrumental interlude>

Perhaps there'll come a time when you're alone
Your heart still haunted by a memory
If then you chance to find there's someone on your mind
I hope it happens to be me

I hope it happens to be me

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 6 in 1954
-english words by carl sigman and music by gerhard winkler


Answer me, oh, my love
Just what sin have i been guilty of?
Tell me how i came to lose your love
Please answer me, sweetheart

You were mine yesterday
I believed that love was here to stay
Won't you tell me where i've gone astray?
Please answer me, my love

If you're happier without me
I'll try not to care
But if you still think about me
Please listen to my prayer

You must know i've been true
Won't you say that we can start anew?
In my sorrow now i turn to you
Please answer me, my love

<instrumental interlude>

(if you're happier without me)
(i'll try not to care)
But if you still think about me
Please listen to my prayer

You must know (you must know)i've been true (i've been true)
Won't you say that we can start anew?
In my sorrow now i turn to you
Please answer me, my love

Answer me, my love

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 26 in 1952
-words and music by marcia neal, philip f. broughton, bob merrill, and hughie
-prince


Funny, how i've stopped loving you
I can pass you on the street and my heart don't skip a beat
Not much, so much my eyes wanna cry
Funny, how i've stopped loving you
I can listen to your name and it doesn't start a flame
Not much, so much my heart wants to die

Now that you're standing here, darling, i don't shed a tear
This is just the rain in my eyes
And if i have proved to you everything i say is true
Please help me believe my own lies

Funny, how i've stopped loving you
And it's funny i don't miss all the heaven in your kiss
Your touch, no i don't love you, not much

<instrumental interlude>

Funny, how i've stopped loving you
And it's funny i don't miss all the heaven in your kiss
Your touch, no i don't love you, not much

No i don't love you, not much

(nathaniel cole)


I don't know why i'm so doggone unlucky today.
Just got the news that my best gal has left me to stay.
Things were pretty rosy,
We got along so fine.
Until another guy moved in
And handed her a line.
I don't know why i'm so doggone unlucky today.


So i decided to try and get her off my mind.
Started to walkin', to see what enjoyment i'd find.
Was invited to a party,
Then there was a fight.
A fella got a whippin'...
You guessed it right.
I don't know why i'm so doggone unlucky today.

(s. gallop, u. minucci)


A thousand thoughts of you
Will haunt me ever after
The music of your laughter
Will serenade my heart.


A thousand thoughts of you
Will roam the night and find me
With chains of love, they'll bind me
To dreams that won't depart.


Your face,
Your smile,
The moonlight in your hair
Your lips,
Your eyes,
I'll see them everywhere.


A thousand kisses, too
Will keep me reminiscing
For there'll be no dismissing
A thousand thoughts of you.


~interlude~


A thousand kisses, too
Will keep me reminiscing
For there'll be no dismissing
A thousand thoughts of you.

(mitchell parish, cliff burwell)


Just found joy
I'm as happy as a baby boy, baby boy
With another brand new choo-choo choy
When i met my sweet lorraine, lorraine, lorraine.


A pair of eyes
That are brighter tham the summer sky
When you see them, you'll realize
Why i love my sweet lorraine.


Now when it's rainin',
I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile, whoa ho
And to think that i'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle, whoa ho ho


Each night i pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When i marry sweet lorraine.


~interlude~


Now when it's rainin'
I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile, whoa ho
And to think that i'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle, whoa ho ho


Each night i pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When i marry sweet lorraine.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position #8 in 1952
-words by sammy gallop and music by kurt adams


I used to walk with you
Along the avenue
Our hearts were carefree and gay
How could i know i'd lose you
Somewhere along the way?

The friends we used to know
Would always smile "hello"
No love like our love they'd say
Then love slipped through our fingers
Somewhere along the way

I should forget
But with the loneliness of night i start remembering ev'rything
You're gone and yet
There's still a feeling deep inside
That you will always be part of me

So now i look for you
Along the avenue
And as i wander i pray
That some day soon i'll find you
Somewhere along the way

I should forget
But with the loneliness of night i start remembering ev'rything
You're gone and yet
There's still a feeling deep inside
That you will always be part of me

So now i look for you
Along the avenue
And as i wander i pray
That some day soon i'll find you
Somewhere along the way
Somewhere along the way

(f. ahlert, j. young)


I'm gonna sit right down
And write myself a letter,
And make believe it came from you.
I'm gonna write words oh, so sweet
They're gonna knock me off of my feet,
A lot of kisses on the bottom,
I'll be glad i got 'em.


I'm gonna smile and say,
"i hope you're feeling better,"
And close with love, the way that you do.
I'm gonna sit right down
And write myself a letter,
And make believe it came from you.


I'm gonna sit right down
And write myself a letter,
And make believe that it came from you.
I'm gonna write words oh, so sweet, yeah!


Lotta kisses on the bottom,
I'll be glad i got 'em.
I'm gonna smile and say,
"i hope you're feeling better,"
And close with love, the way that you do.


I'm gonna sit right down
And write myself a letter,
And make believe it came from you...


I'm gonna sit right down
And write myself a letter,
And make believe it came,
Make believe that it came from you!

(irving berlin)


What'll i do when you
Are far away
And i'm so blue,
What'll i do?


What'll i do when i
Am wondering who
Is kissing you,
What'll i do?


What'll i do with just
A photograph
To tell my troubles to?


When i'm alone
With only dreams of you
That won't come true,
What'll i do?


~interlude~


When i'm alone
With only dreams of you
That won't come true,
What'll i do?

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 24 in 1952
-words by ben raleigh and music by guy wood


Faith can move mountains
Darling, you will see
I can move mountains
If you have faith in me

Faith can work magic
This i find with you
Yours is the magic
To make my wishes come true

So tell me again you love me
Kiss me and i'll be strong
What couldn't i do when i know that you
Are here to help me along?

Yes, faith can move mountains
Darling, you will see
I can move mountains
If you have faith in me

<instrumental interlude>

So tell me again you love me
Kiss me and i'll be strong
What couldn't i do when i know that you
Are here to help me along?

Yes, faith can move mountains
Darling, you will see
I can move mountains
If you have faith in me

Yes, i can move mountains
If you have faith in me

-artist: nat king cole
-words and music by sammy cahn, axel stordahl, and paul weston
-from the film "thrill of a romance" starring esther williams and van johnson
-charted in 1945 by frank sinatra (#8), martha tilton (#10), tommy dorsey (#11),
-and jimmy dorsey (#13).


I should care, i should go around weeping
I should care, i should go without sleeping
Strangely enough, i sleep well
'cept for a dream or two
But then i count my sheep well
Funny how sheep can lull you to sleep

So i should care, i should let it upset me
I should care but it just doesn't get me
Maybe i won't find someone as lovely as you
But i should care and i do

<brief instrumental interlude>

I should care but it just doesn't get me
Maybe i won't find someone as lovely as you
But i should care and i do

And i do

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 11 in 1956
-words by sammy gallop and music by chester conn


Night lights, those blues-in-the-night lights
Are no longer bright lights since i'm without you
Sweet dreams, oh where did they fly to?
You're gone and who can i cry to?

Those night lights remind me of bright eyes
And beautiful white lies too good to be true
As i go on my way with all my heart i pray
That those night lights will lead me to you

<instrumental interlude>

Those night lights remind me of bright eyes
And beautiful white lies too good to be true
As i go on my way with all my heart i pray
That those night lights will lead me to you

As recorded by nat king cole, who didn't make the top 100
Words by lorenz hart and music by richard rogers and sung in the broadway
Musical "the boys from syracuse" by eddie albert and marcy westcott
A # 6 hit for horace heidt in 1938
A # 2 hit for benny goodman in 1939


This can't be love, because i feel so well,
No sobs, no sorrows, no sighs.
This can't be love; i get no dizzy spells,
My head is not in the skies.

My heart does not stand still, just hear it beat.
This is too sweet to be love.

This can't be love, because i feel so well,
But still i love to look in your eyes.

(instrumental interlude)

My heart does not stand still, just hear it beat.
This is too sweet to be love.

This can't be love, because i feel so well,
But still i love to look in your eyes.
Still i love to look in your eyes.