The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71227 Message #1101605
Posted By: Jim Dixon
26-Jan-04 - 07:45 AM
Thread Name: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections - recorded msgs
Subject: RE: Attribution added: DT authors PermaThread
Laura Lee in the DT, compared with Laura Lea in the sheet music at the Levy collection, has the title misspelled, the names of the lyricist and composer reversed, the chorus missing (although the chorus is only a repetition of the last 2 lines of the first verse), and a few small differences in the words. A better copy is posted here.
I believe the song title is usually spelled Aura Lea. The Book of World-Famous Music says "Aura Lee has words by W.W. Fosdick, Music by George R. Poulton, copyright May 1, 1861. In 1956, a new lyric entitled "Love Me Tender" was written to the melody by Elvis Presley and Vera Matson.
-Joe Offer-