An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)

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"An Affair to Remember"
Single by Vic Damone
B-side "In the Eyes of the World"
Released1957
Studio Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length2:44
Label Columbia
Composer(s) Harry Warren
Lyricist(s) Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson
Producer(s) Percy Faith
Vic Damone singles chronology
"Do I Love You (Because You're Beautiful)"
(1957)
"An Affair to Remember"
(1957)
"Good Nite"
(1957)

"An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)" is a 1957 romantic song which was composed by Harry Warren for the 1957 film An Affair to Remember . Lyrics were by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson. The song is sung by Vic Damone during the film's opening credits and then sung later by Deborah Kerr's character, Terry McKay, a nightclub singer-turned-music teacher. Kerr's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed for Kerr in the film The King and I .

"An Affair to Remember" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1957 but lost out to "All the Way".

The song has since become a jazz standard. [1]

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