"No Other Love" is a show tune from the 1953 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Me and Juliet.[1][2]
"No Other Love" | |
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Song | |
Published | 1953 |
Genre | Show tune |
Composer(s) | Richard Rodgers |
Lyricist(s) | Oscar Hammerstein II |
"No Other Love" | ||||
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Single by Perry Como | ||||
B-side | "Keep It Gay" | |||
Released | June 20, 1953 | |||
Recorded | 1953 | |||
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Label | RCA Victor | |||
Songwriter(s) | Richard Rodgers | |||
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Richard Rodgers originally composed this tune (with the title "Beneath the Southern Cross") for the NBC television series Victory at Sea (1952/1953). When Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated on Me and Juliet, Rodgers took his old melody and set it to new words by Hammerstein, producing the song "No Other Love".[1] The song has a tango rhythm (referred to by Rodgers as a "languid tango" in his autobiography, Musical Stages).
The 1953 song should not be confused with "No Other Love", a song of 1950. The melody for the 1950 song was taken from Étude in E major, Op. 10, No. 3 by Frédéric Chopin.