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【HD】Somewhere
My Love - Andy Williams (Dr Zhivago) (Lyrics on Screen)
Andre
Rieu - Somewhere My Love "Dr. Zhivago" & Kalinka (Maastricht
2011)
Somewhere
My Love (Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago) guitar arrangement by Nemanja Bogunovic
"Somewhere My Love"
Somewhere,
my love, there will be songs to sing
Although the snow covers the hopes of Spring
Somewhere a hill blossoms in green and gold
And there are dreams, all that your heart can hold
Someday we'll meet again, my love
Someday whenever the Spring breaks through
You'll come to me out of the long-ago
Warm as the wind, soft as the kiss of snow
Till then, my sweet, think of me now and then
Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again
[jazz instrumental-first four lines]
Someday we'll meet again, my love
I said "someday whenever that Spring breaks through"
You'll come to me out of the long-ago
Warm as the wind, and as soft as the kiss of snow
Till then, my sweet, think of me now and then
Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again!
Although the snow covers the hopes of Spring
Somewhere a hill blossoms in green and gold
And there are dreams, all that your heart can hold
Someday we'll meet again, my love
Someday whenever the Spring breaks through
You'll come to me out of the long-ago
Warm as the wind, soft as the kiss of snow
Till then, my sweet, think of me now and then
Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again
[jazz instrumental-first four lines]
Someday we'll meet again, my love
I said "someday whenever that Spring breaks through"
You'll come to me out of the long-ago
Warm as the wind, and as soft as the kiss of snow
Till then, my sweet, think of me now and then
Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again!
Lara's Theme
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Somewhere
My Love" redirects here. For the Connie Francis album, see Somewhere, My Love.
"Lara's Theme"
is the generic name given to a leitmotif written
for the film Doctor Zhivago (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre. Soon afterward, it became the basis of
the song "Somewhere, My Love".[1]
Original composition[edit]
While working on the
soundtrack for Doctor Zhivago, Maurice Jarre was
asked by director David Lean to
come up with a theme for the character of Lara, played by Julie Christie. Initially Lean had desired to use a
well-known Russian song but could not locate the rights to it, and delegated
responsibility to Jarre. After several unsuccessful attempts at writing it,
Lean suggested to Jarre that he go to the mountains with his girlfriend and
write a piece of music for her. Jarre says that the resultant piece was
"Lara's Theme", and Lean liked it well enough to use it in numerous
tracks for the film. In editing Zhivago,
Lean and producer Carlo Ponti reduced
or outright deleted many of the themes composed by Jarre; Jarre was angry
because he felt that an over-reliance on "Lara's Theme" would ruin
the soundtrack.
Jarre's esthetic fears
proved unfounded commercially, however, as the theme became an instant success
and gained fame throughout the world. By special request of Connie Francis, Paul Francis Webster later took the theme and added lyrics
to it to create "Somewhere My Love". Francis, however, retired from
the project when the lyrics were presented to her because she thought of them
as too "corny". A few weeks later, Francis reconsidered her position
and recorded the song nonetheless, but by then Ray Conniff had
also recorded a version of his own, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
in 1966. Conniff's version of the song also topped the
"Easy
listening" chart in the U.S. for four weeks. Despite Conniff's
success, Francis also had her version released as a single, and although it
failed to chart in the US, it became one of her biggest successes
internationally, becoming one of the "Top 5" in territories such asScandinavia and Asia.
In Italy, her Italian version of the song, "Dove non so", became her
last #1 success.
Various other versions
of it have since been released. Italio-American tenor, Sergio Franchi covered
the song as "Somewhere, My Love" in his 1967 RCA Victor album From Sergio – With Love.[2] "Lara's
Theme" remains to this day one of the most recognizable movie themes ever
written. A music box plays Lara's Theme at the beginning of the film The Spy Who Loved Me.
