Some Enchanted Evening (song)
- Some Enchanted Evening (song)
"Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific".
In the show, it is sung as a solo by Emile de Becque, the French plantation owner, who falls in love with the American navy nurse Nellie Forbush. In this song he sings of seizing the moment so that it won't slip away.
In the film version, the song is sung by Giorgio Tozzi, who dubbed for Rossano Brazzi.
According to the running commentary on the DVD release of South Pacific, this song provides an example of Hammerstein's use of verbs in a song. The DVD commentary mentions that Lehman Engel remembered how Oscar Hammerstein II wanted to write a song that used verbs, but waited ten years to do so before he wrote this song. The song is rich with verbs, such as "see", "hear" and "find."
Besides recordings by Ezio Pinza (original cast album) and Perry Como (biggest hit version), several other versions were recorded; see below.
Recorded versions
*Frank Sinatra (recorded February 28, 1949)
*Perry Como (recorded March 1, 1949)
*Jo Stafford (recorded March 9, 1949)
*Bing Crosby (recorded March 10, 1949)
*Ezio Pinza (recorded April 18, 1949) for the Original Broadway cast recording of South Pacific
*Al Jolson (recorded May 31, 1949)
*John Laurenz
*Bryn Terfel (recorded October 1995) (1996) - "Something Wonderful: Bryn Terfel Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein"
*Paul Weston and Orchestra (instrumental)
*Willie Nelson
*Jay and the Americans
*Carl Mann (1960)
*José Carreras (1986) for a studio cast recording of South Pacific with Kiri Te Kanawa, Mandy Patinkin and Sarah Vaughan
*Jon Bon Jovi - on Ally McBeal
*The Temptations (1995, For Lovers Only)
*Philip Quast for the 2002 London revival cast recording of South Pacific
*Giorgio Tozzi (1958 for the film soundtrack, 1967 for the Lincoln Centre revival cast recording with Florence Henderson
*Barbra Streisand (from her 1993 album Back to Broadway)
*Harrison Ford in "American Graffiti"
*Paulo Szot - "Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (The New Broadway Cast)" (2008)
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