This lives in my head sometimes. Pretty sure it’s Tin Pan Alley, but what the heck is it?
“Tonight You Belong to Me” . Known to most from the Steve Martin-Bernadette Peters duet in The Jerk.
Thank you! I only barely remember The Jerk and might never have come up with that. The Lennon Sisters’ version probably appeared in my YouTube algorithm at some point in the past year.
Well, if you have ever spent more than five minutes with someone learning to play the ukulele, there is a 99% chance that’s when you heard it.
I hope you didn’t just reinfect me.
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No, Tonight You Belong to Me wasn’t in Welcome to Derry, it was another thing that the girls who sang the theme song covered. But you might have read the earworm thread.
Got it.
This is one of those songs that got better after the original version. In the 20s it was recorded as a ballad, and quite lugubriously IMO.
It was a minor hit for Dottie West on the Country music charts about a year before Steve Martin got his hands on it.
With a trumpet solo.
