Help with an old song

Subject: Help with an old song
From: GUEST,Tom Fernie
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 02:37 AM

This is an old song which I used to play to my wife but can't remember all the words or the title. The chorus is the following:

I love you more today, than I loved you yesterday. But I know I'll love you more than this , When I love you tomorrow.

It was on an old Irish Showband record from the early sixties...can anyone out there help?

Subject: RE: Help with an old song
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 07:49 AM

Well, there's this pop song called More Today Than Yesterday (click) by Pat Upton, recorded by Spiral Starecase (sic) a one-hit-wonder from around 1969, and covered by lots of other performers, including Andy Williams. It contains the words:

Oh, I love you more today than yesterday
But not as much as tomorrow
I love you more today than yesterday
But, darling, not as much as tomorrow.

Is that the one you had in mind?

Subject: RE: Help with an old song
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 08:05 AM

Now, if someone REALLY wants to make my day, they can tell me that they have a record of a song very similar to this that was a hit in the fifties. It was probably called, More Than Yesterday, Less Than Ttomorrow, and was recorded by Hamish Menzies (who ever he was.) I think that he was a German. Maybe I'll have to ask my friend Wolfgang. When I moved away from home, I left a stack of records I couldn't bring with me, and they conveniently disappeared. But, that song always stuck in my head. It's not the one you're looking for. This one had the line, "How much do I love you, more than yesterday, less than tomorrow." That line has stuck in my head to the point that I was fooling around the other day writing a song with the line "Today is yesterday's tomorrow." I don't think the song will go anywhere. but for all of us who are always saying, "I'll do it tomorrow," it's a good reminder that today IS tomorrow... yesterday we said today was tomorrow. Which then reminds me of the old tongue twister song about a man who wants to buy a train ticket to Morrow.. a city named Morrow.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Help with an old song
From: Wolfgang
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 08:47 AM

Jerry, the name doesn't ring a bell but a search showed your memory to be in good shape:

The previously unknown (to me) Hamish Menzies had a hit in 1953 called 'Less than tomorrow' but I couldn't find any more information so far.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Help with an old song
From: Fortunato
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 09:34 AM

Jerry, I have fragment in my head: (yes, more than one)

(koup poo we poo?) I love you more today, more today than yesterday, but I love you less today, less than I will tomorrow.

I'm thinking, I'm thinking, here...I know there was a nonsense or possibly Hawaiian phrase at the beginning of the line. Does that ring a bell?

Subject: RE: Help with an old song
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 11:53 AM

Thanks, Fortunato, but that's not it. The Hamish Mezies recording went:

How much do I love you, that's easy to say
Less than tomorrow, more than today.

For some odd reason, I associate it in feel with a song that Nat King Cole did around the same time, Looking Back. I have Nat's recording, and one of the great pleasures of my life is to hear Frankie, in my gospel quartet sing Looking Back, with all the sweetness that Nat had. And I get to go ooooh, in the background and play the guitar. Fine stuff.

Thanks for looking it up, wherever you did, Wolfgang. I graduated from high school in 1953. It was a good year.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Help with an old song
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 03:35 PM

Fortunato was correct Ku-ui-po, sung by Elvis, has the required words and can be found at:

Ku-u-i-po

or

Ku-ui-po

Mick

Subject: RE: Help with an old song
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 03:37 PM

Sorry. Should have made that clearer - Ku-ui-po seems to be the answer to the original query, not Jerry's.

Mick

Subject: RE: Help with an old song
From: Tom
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 03:47 PM

Thanks to all who replied so quickly..can't believe how well this works...ok, so I'm an old fart who has just got switched onto Forums etc. but brilliant site this Mudcat Cafe...got a lot of songs for the Scouts song book we use at every camp....anyway, on to the song I'm still looking for...the two option posted so far are very close but I don't think they are the song I remember ( could be wrong here) so any more ideas would be welcome. Thanks, Tom

Subject: RE: Help with an old song
From: Tom
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 03:58 PM

Thanks to all who replied so quickly..can't believe how well this works...ok, so I'm an old fart who has just got switched onto Forums etc. but brilliant site this Mudcat Cafe...got a lot of songs for the Scouts song book we use at every camp....anyway, on to the song I'm still looking for...the two option posted so far are very close but I don't think they are the song I remember ( could be wrong here) so any more ideas would be welcome. Thanks, Tom