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"While We're Young" is a 1943 song with music composed by Alec Wilder and Morty Palitz, to lyrics by Bill Engvick, which was popularized by Don Cherry, Tony Bennett and other artists. Wilder quoted his Algonquin neighbour, James Thurber, as saying that Engvick's lyrics to "While We're Young" was "the finest piece of English writing he knew". The lyric Thurber refers to begins:
We must fulfill This golden time When hearts awake So shyly, Softly.
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References
- ↑ "Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
- ↑ Evanier, David (2011). All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett . p. 227. ISBN 9780470520659.
- ↑ Hemming, Roy (1992). Hajdu, David (ed.). Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop . Newmarket Press. p. 75. ISBN 1557041482.
- ↑ Leamer, Laurence (2005). King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson . HarperCollins. p. 7. ISBN 0060840994.
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