I Waited So Long
1956


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Highlights
  • Written for the 1958 Universal-International Pictures film The Big Beat, starring William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gogi Grant and Rose Marie.
  • A young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.

WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON
COPYRIGHT 1956


Recording History
Nat King Cole, never released
Gogi Grant, I Waited So Long, single, RCA Victor, #EPA 4185
Jeri Southern, I Waited So Long, single, Decca Records, #9-30556
Jon Weber, It's Never Quite the Same, Mood Records, MD-1111, 1998
Lyrics
I waited so long for you, for you!
And now you belong to me!
I love you so much,
I do! I do!

You're all that I dreamed you'd be!
I hold you, I kiss you,
And I forget the lonely past.
That life-time with-out you
Is just a memory at last.

I waited so long
To touch a star
And here you are
In my arms!

I waited so long for you, for you!
And now you belong to me!
I love you so much,
I do! I do!

You're all that I dreamed you'd be!
I hold you, I kiss you,
And I forget the lonely past.
That life-time with-out you
Is just a memory at last.

I waited so long
To touch a star
And here you are
In my arms!
I WAITED SO LONG From the Universal-International Picture The Big Beat, Northern Music Corporation, 1957. Music and Words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Special Picture Release)