Falling in Love with Love

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"Falling in Love with Love" is a popular show tune by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart, introduced in the 1938 musical "The Boys from Syracuse."


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Predicate Object
instanceOf show tune
song
associatedWork The Comedy of Errors
basedOnWorkBy William Shakespeare
composer Richard Rodgers NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States
firstPerformanceYear 1938
genre popular song
show tune
hasComposer Richard Rodgers NERFINISHED
hasForm popular song form
hasInfluenceOn later romantic show tunes
hasLyricist Lorenz Hart NERFINISHED
hasMusicalStyle Broadway
traditional pop
hasNotableComposerLyricistTeam Rodgers and Hart NERFINISHED
hasNotableRecordingArtist André Previn
Anita O'Day NERFINISHED
Carmen McRae NERFINISHED
Doris Day
Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED
Frank Sinatra
Helen Merrill
Mel Tormé
Patti Page
Sammy Davis Jr.
Shirley Bassey
Tony Bennett
Vic Damone
hasNotableVocalType female vocal feature
hasRightsSociety ASCAP
hasTheme disillusionment with love
romantic love
introducedIn The Boys from Syracuse
isPartOfRepertoire cabaret repertoire
jazz standards
isStandard Great American Songbook
language English
lyricist Lorenz Hart NERFINISHED
musicalTheatreEra Golden Age of Broadway
originalContext Broadway musical number
originalMedium stage musical
partOf The Boys from Syracuse
publicationYear 1938
usedIn revivals of The Boys from Syracuse

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers ("Falling in Love with Love (song)")
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