Young at Heart

About Young at Heart

"Young at Heart" is a pop standard, a ballad with music by Johnny Richards and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. The song was written and published in 1953, with Leigh contributing the lyrics to what was originally a Richards instrumental called "Moonbeam". Frank Sinatra was the first performer to record the song, which became a million-selling hit in 1953 (and spilling over with popularity into 1954) where it reached the No. 2 spot in the Billboard charts. The song was such a hit that a movie that Sinatra was filming at the same time with Doris Day was renamed to match the song title, and the song was included in the opening and closing credits of the movie. Other performers who have recorded versions of "Young at Heart" include Bing Crosby (charting briefly in 1954 at the #24 spot), Rosemary Clooney (on her album "While we're Young"), Perry Como (on his 1960 album For the Young at Heart), Connie Francis (1961), Jimmy Durante (1963), Tony Bennett, Shawn Colvin, Bobby Vinton, Tom Waits, Barry Manilow (on his album The Greatest Songs of the Fifties), Bob Dylan, Gloria Estefan, Landon Pigg, Mark Vincent and Vonda Shepard, James Darren, Monty Alexander, and Michael Bublé (on his album To Be Loved). Wild Man Fischer recorded an eccentric version that was included on The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records. more »

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2004

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Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you 
If you`re young at heart 
For it`s hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind 
If you`re young at heart 
You can go to extremes with impossible schemes 
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart (as) it seems 
And life gets more exciting with each passing day 
And love is either in your heart or on its way 
 
Don`t you know that it`s worth every treasure on Earth 
To be young at heart 
For as rich as you are it`s much better by far 
To be young at heart 
And if you should survive to 105 
Look at all you`ll derive out of being alive 
Then here is the best part 
You have a head start 
If you are among the very young at heart 
 
And if you should survive to 105 
Look at all you`ll derive out of being alive 
Then here is the best part 
You have a head start 
If you are among the very young at heart

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James Darren

James William Ercolani (born June 8, 1936), known by his stage name James Darren, is an American television and film actor, television director, and singer. more »

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