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The Andrews Sisters recorded the song as a single in 1953. [5] Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Dean Martin recorded the song as a single in 1963. [6] Herschel Bernardi recorded the song as a track on his 1970 album "Show Stopper." [7] Barry Manilow recorded the song as part of a Guys and Dolls medley on his 1991 album "Showstoppers." [8]
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner".
Guys and Dolls opened on November 3, 1955, at the Capitol Theatre in New York City [22] to mostly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 91% out of 33 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.7/10 and the consensus: "An escapist and inventive cinemascope delight, Guys and Dolls glistens thanks to the ...
The song is a duet from the 1950 musical Guys and Dolls, and is sung by the characters Sky Masterson and Sister Sarah Brown. In the play it immediately follows the short solo song "My Time of Day", sung by Sky. Both songs were only used as background music in the 1955 film adaptation of the musical, [1] being replaced by the duet "A Woman in Love".
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"More I Cannot Wish You" is a song written and composed by Frank Loesser and first performed by Pat Rooney in 1950. [1] [2] The song was featured in the musical Guys and Dolls. The sentimental lyrics relate the feelings of the oldest character in the play, missionary Arvide Abernathy, [3] who sings it tenderly to his granddaughter, Sarah Brown. [4]
The song was covered in 2002 by Irish pop band Six and was a number-one single in Ireland, where it was titled "There's a Whole Lot of Loving Going On".It became Ireland's best-selling song of 2002 and went on to become the country's third best-selling single of all time.
"Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" is a song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical, Guys and Dolls, which opened at the 46th Street Theatre on November 24, 1950. In the context of the show, gambler Nicely-Nicely Johnson invents a dream about being saved from hell in order to bring ...