As I Love You
(Toujours mieux qu'avant)
1957


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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 1957


Recording History
Count Bassey and Joe Williams, Count Bassey Swings Joe Williams Sings, Verve Records, #314 519852-2
Shirley Bassey, Columbia Records, # CO 61874
Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra
Carmen McRae with Jack Pleis and his Orchestra, Wonderland by Night, Decca Records, #DL 7410
Michael Feinstein, Livingston & Evans Songbook, Concord Records, FCD-3101-2, 2002
Jennie Smith with Bob Mersey and his Orchestra, As I Love You, single, Canadian American Records, #CA 139
Shirley Bassey with Wally Scott and his Orchestra
Jo Stafford and Paul Weston, As I Love You, single, Columbia Records, 4-40640
Jon Weber, It's Never Quite the Same, Mood Records, MD-1111, 1998
Lyrics
I will love you as I love you all my life.
Ev'ry moment spent with you
Makes me more content with you!
Just as you are, you are all I could pray for.
All that you are that's what I wake up each day for.

Ev'r single touch and tingle I adore.
Ev'ry kiss from you to me
Always seems so new to me.
Each one warmer than the one before:
As I love you more and more!

Ev'r single touch and tingle I adore.
Ev'ry kiss from you to me
Always seems so new to me.
Each one warmer than the one before:
As I love you more and more!
AS I LOVE YOU From the Universal-International Picture The Big Beat, Livingston and Evans, Inc., 1957 Words and Music by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Special Picture Release)