Recording History |
Bing Crosby, Decca, L6320, 1951
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Dean Martin, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening/Bonne Nuit, single, Capitol, F-1703
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Paul Weston and Norman Luboff, Columbia Records, 39465, 1951
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Highlights |
- Written for the 1951 Paramount Pictures film Here Comes The Groom directed by Frank Capra, starring Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Franchot Tone and Alexis Smith.
- Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has five days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
- Here Comes The Groom was released September 20, 1951.
- Louis Armstrong, Dorothy Lamour, Cass Daley and Phil Harris all have cameo roles in this film.
- Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series that ran for more than twenty years, broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of Here Comes The Groom on September 12, 1952. Jane Wyman reprised her onscreen role.
- Here Comes The Groom was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story in 1952.
- Bing Crosby was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor-Comedy/Musical in 1952 for Here Comes The Groom.
- Here Comes The Groom was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical in 1952.
- BONNE NUIT is performed in the film by Bing Crosby.
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WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON |
COPYRIGHT 1951 |
Lyrics |
Go to sleep, my darling,
Soon your dreams will come in sight.
Your day is done, my darling.
Now, goodnight, may you have
A good night tonight.
Bonne nuit, good night,
Just dream away the dawn will light
A bright new day.
Be cheerful in your sleepytime pray’r.
The tearful never get anywhere,
So don’t despair.
Bonne nuit, my love, dream of a land
Where stars above fall in your hand,
And someday we’ll find this where and when.
Bonne nuit, goodnight, ‘til then.
Bonne nuit, my love, dream of a land
Where stars above fall in your hand,
And someday we’ll find this where and when.
Bonne nuit, goodnight, ‘til then.
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BONNE NUIT as sung by Bing Crosby in the 1951 Paramount Pictures film Bonne Nuit.
Music and words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
(Special Picture Release)
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