Almost In Your Arms
(Love Song from Houseboat)
1958


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Highlights
  • Written for the 1958 Paramount picture, Houseboat, starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren.
  • Academy Award Nominee for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, 1958.
  • Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise his three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is to be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite trying to get away from her overprotective father.

WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON
COPYRIGHT 1958


Recording History
Steve Allen
Ernie Andrews, Jump for Joy, High Note Records
Les Baxter
Karen Benjamin and Alan Chapman
BRNO Radio Orchestra
Sam Cooke, from soundtrack of Paramount Pictures Houseboat (recorded but not used)
Sam Cooke
Don Costa
Michael Feinstein, Livingston & Evans Songbook, Concord Records, Inc, FCD-3101-2, 2002
Lex Golden
Joe Reisman and his Orchestra
Sophia Loren, Sultry Ladies, Sony Music Special Products, A 26733
Vera Lynn
Mantovani and his Orchestra
Ralph Marterie, Lou's Blues / Almost in Your Arms, Mercury Records, 45279 (US 71438)
Johnny Nash
Orchestra and strings
Orchestra, from Houseboat
Dakota Staton, Hollywood-My Way, Blue Note Records
Jon Weber, It's Never Quite the Same, Mood Records, MD-1111, 1998
Nancy Wilson
Lyrics
You're near, that moment's here,
I'm almost in your arms
Tonight, the mood is right,
I'm almost in your arms!

One sigh, one word
And I will rush to your embrace;
Say that certain word!
Sigh that certain sigh!
And with all my heart
To your arms I'll fly!

It's strange, how we are changed
By things that seem so small
One look can write a book
One touch can say it all.

We've known those nights alone,
And now we've found our way
I'm almost in your arms
Almost in your arms to stay!

You're near, that moment's here,
I'm almost in your arms
Tonight, the mood is right,
I'm almost in your arms!

We've known those nights alone,
And now we've found our way
I'm almost in your arms
Almost in your arms to stay!
ALMOST IN YOUR ARMS (LOVE SONG FROM HOUSEBOAT). From the Paramount Picture Houseboat, Paramount Music Corp., 1958. Music and Words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Special Picture Release)