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"Love and Marriage" is a 1955 song with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. It is published by Barton Music Corporation (ASCAP).

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Frank Sinatra versions

"Love and Marriage"
Single by Frank Sinatra
from the album This Is Sinatra!
B-side "The Impatient Years"
ReleasedOctober 17, 1955
RecordedAugust 15, 1955
Studio Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California
Genre
Length2:37
Label Capitol
Composer(s) Jimmy Van Heusen [1]
Lyricist(s) Sammy Cahn [1]
Frank Sinatra singles chronology
"Same Old Saturday Night"
(1955)
"Love and Marriage"
(1955)
"(Love Is) The Tender Trap"
(1955)

"Love and Marriage" was introduced by Frank Sinatra in the 1955 television production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town , which aired on Producers' Showcase . Sinatra went on to record two versions of the song. The first was recorded for Capitol Records on August 15, 1955, [2] was used as the "title track" to the big screen Hollywood success (Love Is) The Tender Trap, and became a major chart hit. (A competing version by Dinah Shore also achieved popularity.) This first recording appeared on the 1956 album This Is Sinatra! [3] The second version was recorded for the Reprise Records album A Man and His Music on October 11, 1965. [4] The Capitol version was later used as the theme song for the 1987–1997 Fox TV sitcom Married... with Children . [5]

Although both versions were arranged by Nelson Riddle, [6] there are many slight but noticeable differences. For instance:

In 1956, "Love and Marriage" won the Emmy for Best Musical Contribution from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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