Falling in Love with Love

"Falling in Love with Love"
Song from The Boys from Syracuse
Published	1938
Writer(s)	Lorenz Hart
Composer(s)	Richard Rodgers

"Falling in Love with Love" is a show tune from the Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys from Syracuse, where it was introduced by Muriel Angelus. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1938.^[1] The song is set to a waltz, but the lyrics "remind his [Hart's] listeners of the show's skeptical tone".^[2]

Performances

In the 1940 musical film, it was performed by Allan Jones.

↑ '"The Boys from Syracuse', 1938" lorenzhart.org, accessed June 23, 2011
↑ Hyland, William George.'The Boys from Syracuse'Richard Rodgers, Yale University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-300-07115-9, p. 120
↑ http://www.discogs.com Sergio Franchi

Rodgers and Hart

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