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Goodnight Sweetheart (Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly song)
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'"Goodnight, Sweetheart"' is a British popular song written in 1931. It has been performed by Al Bowlly, Kate Smith, Connie Francis (for her 1959 album 'My Thanks to You'), Dick Haymes (for his 'Imagination' album), Gordon MacRae (for his 1957 album 'Motion Picture Soundstage'), Sarah Vaughan (for her 1962 album 'Sarah + 2') and Dean Martin (for his 1958 album 'Sleep Warm'), among others, and was the theme song for the 1990s BBC time-travel sitcom 'Goodnight Sweetheart' starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, which was named after it.
"Goodnight, Sweetheart" was written in 1931 by the song-writing team of Ray Noble,[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0633656/ Ray Noble (composer)] on the Internet Movie Database Jimmy Campbell[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1755921/ Jimmy Campbell (lyricist)] on the Internet Movie Database and Reg Connelly.[http://www.faqs.org/copyright/goodnight-sweetheart-by-james-purdy/ Copyright for 'Goodnight, Sweetheart ']
It was recorded in 1931 by the Wayne King Orchestra (vocals by Ernie Birchill), Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Ruth Etting and the Ray Noble Orchestra (vocals by Al Bowlly). Guy Lombardo also recorded his own version of the song in 1931 with vocals by Carmen Lombardo. Lombardo's version remained at No. 1 for a number of weeks in the U.S. charts.[https://books.google.com/books?id=W-vVUgMPSzYC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=goodnight+sweetheart+lombardo&source=bl&ots=H-2kY1ZunJ&sig=2r7CTbY_A-yaljbQIqcbNg74eHo&hl=en&ei=C6P9SrLcFcSH4QaKwcSADA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBMQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=goodnight%20sweetheart%20lombardo&f=false William Ruhlmann, 'Breaking Records: 100 Years of Hits' Routledge (2004)]
In film, the song was performed in 'Angel's Holiday' with Jane Withers (1937),'The Palm Beach Story' (1942; performed by Rudy Valle), 'Stage Door Canteen' (1943; sung by Kenny Baker), and 'Holiday in Mexico' (1946; excerpt sung by Walter Pidgeon and Jane Powell).[http://www.classicmoviemusicals.com/musicg.htm Classic Movie Musicals website] It was also featured in the 'Star Trek' episode "The City on the Edge of Forever".
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