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Thread #114101   Message #2743166
Posted By: GUEST
10-Oct-09 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: I'm Yours (Green and Harburg)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I'm Yours (Green and Harburg)
The German close-harmony pop quartet The Comedian Harmonists also recorded this song with a German lyric under the title of "Hunderttausendmal" ("A Hundred Thousand Times") wherein the lyric is about a fellow so much in love that he has asked the object of his love a hundred thousand times to be his, but she keeps closing the door in his face or just saying no, when all he wants is to possess her.

It's a gorgeous tune by Johnny Green with a melody similar to that of his most famous song, "Body and Soul."

"'I'm Yours" was written in 1930 for a long-lost Paramount featurette LEAVE IT TO LESTER. "Body and Soul" was written in 1929.