"The Nearness of You": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video

"The Nearness of You"

Other songs written for Romance in the Dark currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook: none.

Carmichael wrote the melody for an MGM screen adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1935 while he was still in New York. After making the move to Hollywood, in 1937 Paramount assigned him and Washington to write a song for a movie to be called Romance in the Rough. Washington put words to the previously written melody and it became "The Nearness of You." Although Paramount never produced Romance in the Rough, they did make a movie titled Romance in the Dark in 1938 and in it Gladys Swarthout introduced "The Nearness of You." It did not become a hit, however, until 1940 when Glenn Miller recorded it with a Ray Eberle vocal.

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Notes

For a complete listing of songs used in the movie Romance in the Dark , see IMDB Soundtracks .

Questions

What is The Nearness of You?

Other songs written for Romance in the Dark currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook : none.

How should The Nearness of You be cited?

Cite this page as ""The Nearness of You": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video," Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/n/nearness_of_you.html

Which Cafe Songbook pages are related?

Also read "Never Gonna Dance" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/n/never_gonna_dance.html); "Nature Boy" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/n/nature_boy.html); "Never Let Me Go" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/n/never_let_me_go.html); "Nancy (with the laughing face)" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/n/nancy.html).

Cite this page: "The Nearness of You": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video, Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/n/nearness_of_you.html