Dear Heart
1964


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Highlights
  • Written for the 1964 Warner Bros. film Dear Heart starring Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page and Angela Lansbury.
  • The annual postmasters' convention is the setting for a love story. She is a single woman who never thought she'd be involved in an affair. He is a womanizing salesman trying to decide whether or not he wants to be engaged.
  • In the film, sung by the chorus.
  • Academy Award nomination for Best Song, 1964.
  • Golden Globe Awards nomination for Best Song in a Motion Picture, 1965.

WORDS BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON, MUSIC BY HENRY MANCINI
COPYRIGHT 1964


Recording History
Mitch Miller
Russ Morgan
Byron Motley
Rene Paulo
Frank Chacksfield
Sarah Vaughan, Sarah Vaughan Sings The Mancini Songbook, Mercury Records, #R61009
The Po' Boys
Don Costa
Henry Mancini his Orchestra and Chorus, Dear Heart and Other Songs About Love, RCA Victor Records, #LSP-2990
Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra
Teddy Randazzo
Gordon Jenkins
Floyd Cramer
Kitty Wells
The Ray Charles Singers
Wayne Johnson
Andy Williams, Dear Heart, Columbia Records, #CL 2338
Dan and Dale
Roger Williams
George Feyer
George Shearing
Nancy Wilson
Eddie Fischer
Bobby Darin
Bobbi Martin
Kai Winding
John Fox
Jimmy Dean
Sy Zentner
Al Martino
John Gary
Marty Gold and his Orchestra
Sounds Orchestra
The LeRoy Holmes Orchestra
Lenny Dee
Billy Storm
The McGuire Sisters with orchestra
Trini Lopez
Billy Strange
Ferrante & Teicher
Johnny Maddox
Jerry Vale
Manhattan Pops
Hi Babit
Monica Mancini
Harry Simone
Baja Marimba Band
Frank Sinatra
Jack Jones
Ethel Smith
Pat Boone
Mantovani and his Orchestra
Sammy Kaye
Brenda Lee
Joanie Sommers and Laurindo Almeida, Softly, The Brazilian Sound, Warner Bros. Records, #W1575
Teresa Brewer
Ralph Marterie
Peggy Lee
Al Caiola and his Orchestra
The Anita Kerr Quartet, We Dig Mancini, RCA Victor Records, #LSP-3428,
Chet Avery
Lyrics
Dear heart, wish you were here
To warm this night.
My dear heart, it seems like a year
Since you've been out of my sight.

A single room, a table for one
It's a lonesome town all right
But soon I'll kiss you hello
At our front door,

And dear heart, I want you to know
I'll leave your arms never more.

But soon I'll kiss you hello
At our front door.

And dear heart, I want you to know
I'll leave your arms never more.
DEAR HEART From the Warner Bros. production Dear Heart, Northridge Music Inc. and M. Witmark & Sons, 1964. Words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Music by Henry Mancini (Special Picture Release)