"Eternally" is a song with music by Charlie Chaplin, and words by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner. [1] The music was initially composed for Chaplin's film Limelight (1952) and titled "Terry's Theme"; the film won an Oscar for "Best Original Dramatic Score" at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973.
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As "Terry's Theme", the tune was a charting instrumental hit in 1953 for Frank Chacksfield (UK number 2, US number 5), arranged by Leon Young. [2] Other instrumental versions issued the same year included Ron Goodwin (UK number 3), [3] and Richard Hayman (US number 13).
As "Eternally", it was recorded by Jimmy Young (UK number 8, 1953), [4] Vic Damone (US number 12, 1953), [5] Li Xianglan (in Chinese and Japanese), Petula Clark ( These Are My Songs , 1967), Bing Crosby (for his radio show), [6] Dinah Shore, [7] Steve Lawrence, [8] Michel Legrand, Jerry Vale, [9] Sarah Vaughan, [10] Roger Whittaker, Engelbert Humperdinck (1973 [11] and 2007), Victor Wood (1971), Amália Rodrigues, John Serry Sr. ( Squeeze Play , 1956), [12] [13] among many others.
Brazilian singer José Augusto recorded Portuguese and Spanish language versions of the song. The Spanish version, titled "Candilejas", topped the charts in Mexico in 1974, [14] and was later performed by Roberto Carlos, Julio Iglesias and Plácido Domingo.
Easy listening is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. It is related to middle of the road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs. It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s. It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day.
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