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Lyr Add: How Deep Is The Ocean? (Irving Berlin)

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Q (Frank Staplin) 07 Aug 13 - 04:22 PM
Joe Offer 07 Aug 13 - 06:25 PM
Bill D 08 Aug 13 - 10:45 AM
Leadbelly 08 Aug 13 - 02:53 PM
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Subject: Lyr Add: How Deep Is The Ocean? (Berlin)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Aug 13 - 04:22 PM

HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN?
(Irving Berlin, 1932)

How can I tell you what is in my heart?
How an I measure each and every part?
How can I tell you how much I love you?
How can I measure just how much I do?

How much do I love you?
I'll tell you no lie
How deep is the ocean?
How high is the sky?

How many times a day do I think of you?
How many roses are sprinkled with dew?

How far would I travel
To be where you are?
How far is the journey
from here to a star?

And if I ever lost you
How much would I cry?
How deep is the ocean?
How high is the sky?

Berlin used a few elements from earlier songs.
Originally published by Irving Berlin Inc.

A hit by Billie Holiday (She didn't record the four-line introduction). Copies on youtube.

Paul Whiteman was the first to record the song.
Also sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Eric Clapton and many others.

I seldom think of Brenda Lee, but listen to her on youtube. I liked it.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: How Deep Is The Ocean? (Berlin)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Aug 13 - 06:25 PM

Q, I thought you must be talking about Peggy Lee, but I did find a Brenda Lee recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAHOXS0jkU.

It's pretty good, I'll admit, but I think I prefer the Peggy Lee recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufCJ-xsN8c0

But the one I really like is the studio recording by Diana Krall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDF5E3BGXJg

There's also a live Diana Krall recording, but I don't like that one as much: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXmy5Y7zyT4


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: How Deep Is The Ocean? (Berlin)
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Aug 13 - 10:45 AM

I like Irving Berlin... but I look in here for folkish music.

(I haven't filed a protest for several years....just wanted to keep my purist oar in the water)


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: How Deep Is The Ocean? (Berlin)
From: Leadbelly
Date: 08 Aug 13 - 02:53 PM

Just keep your purist "oar" into the deep ocean instead of simple cup of water. There's much more to be detected.


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