Lyr Req: Sweetheart Darling

Subject: Tune Req: lyrics and tune request
From: GUEST,kno52
Date: 31 Mar 05 - 01:06 AM

I'm trying to find an Irish folk song. The line my dad remembers is: There's a light in your eyes sweetheart darling. Does anyone know the name of this song and where I could find a recording? Thanks for any help.

Subject: RE: lyr Req: light in your eyes sweetheart darling
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Mar 05 - 01:20 AM

Hmmmm. This could be an interesting search. This Google cached page says it was the theme song of the 1933 movie, Peg O' My Heart, starring Marion Davies. Here's a quote from the page:

Shortly after Davies completed filming Peg o' My Heart, she and Hearst threw one of their much-celebrated parties - this one to celebrate his 70th birthday - at San Simeon, the lavish estate shared by the couple. The guest list of about 200 included the cream of Hollywood society. The theme was "Pioneer America," and Davies dressed as Hearst liked to see her in films - in a gingham dress and sunbonnet. The dance orchestra repeatedly played the theme from Peg, "There's a Light in Your Eyes, Sweetheart, Darling," a lilting ballad in the old Irish tradition which was destined to become even more popular than the movie. Within a short time, it was named the country's number one song.

So, we're looking for a song that was #1 in 1933, the theme song of a well-known movie. That shouldn't be hard, should it? Lyrics World usually has that sort of thing, but I don't see it. There's a 1918 song by P.G. Wodehouse called There's a Light in your Eyes, but that's not it.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: lyr Req: light in your eyes sweetheart darling
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 10:20 PM

Information from Indiana University Sheet Music Collections:

Title: SWEETHEART DARLIN'
Composer: Stothart, Herbert
Name: Kahn, Gus
Role: L[yricist?]
Name: Marion Davies
Role: P[erformer?]
Name: Breen, May Singhi
Role: A[rranger?]
Publisher: Robbins Music corp.
Place of publication: New York
Date of publication: 1933
Call Number: M1 .D48 Box: 044 Item: 061
Performance Medium: Piano, Voice and Chords
Larger Work: Peg o' my heart
First Line: My father was Irish, my mother was English, but the Irish....
Chorus First Line: There's a light in your eyes, Sweetheart Darlin'....
Subject term: Moving picture music
Subject term: Kahn, Gus & Grace LeBoy (Mrs. Kahn)

Subject: Lyr Add: SWEETHEART DARLIN' (Kahn, Stothart)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 10:45 PM

Copied from http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/106718/Davies_Marion/Sweetheart_Darlin'/ :

SWEETHEART DARLIN'
(Words, Gus Kahn. Music, Herbert Stothart. 1933)

VERSE: My father was Irish, my mother was English, but the Irish has the upper hand in me;
And, speakin' of Irish people and things, how'd you like an Irish melody?

CHORUS: There's a light in your eyes, sweetheart darlin',
And it makes all the world fair and bright,
Like the light in the skies, sweetheart darlin',
When the mornin' steals out of the night.
'Tis lovelight a-shinin' for someone.
Sure I'm wond'ring just who it could be, my darlin'.
There's a light in your eyes, sweetheart darlin'.
Tell me, darlin', it's shinin' for me.

REPEAT CHORUS

[Sung by Marion Davies in "Peg o' My Heart." Also recorded by Morton Downey, Annette Hanshaw, and Denis O'Brien.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweetheart Darling
From: GUEST,kno52
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 05:34 PM

Thanks for the info. on Sweetheart Darling. You don't know how happy this will make my dad.

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Go here: Lyr Add: SWEETHEART DARLIN' (G Kahn, H Stothart) --JoeClone, 22-Jan-2010.