"Mind If I Make Love to You?" | ||||
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Single by Frank Sinatra | ||||
from the album High Society | ||||
B-side | "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" | |||
Released | August 1956 | |||
Genre | Big band, Beguine (dance) | |||
Length | 2:24 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Songwriter(s) | Cole Porter | |||
Frank Sinatra singles chronology | ||||
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"Mind If I Make Love to You?" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film High Society , where it was sung by Frank Sinatra to Grace Kelly. [1] It is the one song from the musical not included in any stage version of the show [ citation needed ].
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a classic Porter wrote for Frank Sinatra to sing to Grace Kelly in the 1956 film, High Society.