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- "The Nearness of You" is a popular song, written in 1938 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Ned Washington.
Johnny Hartman's recording can be found on the 1972 album, "For Trane".
The song was featured in the Paramount film Romance in the Dark released in 1938. Starring John Barrymore and John Boles it was sung by the lead actress Gladys Swarthout of Metropolitan Opera fame.
The biggest selling 1938 version was recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with a vocal by Ray Eberle (Bluebird catalog number 10745). This recording first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on July 20, 1940 (though this is misleading, as this was Billboard's first chart) and lasted 8 weeks on the chart, peaking at #5. Other popular contemporary versions were recorded by Kay Kyser's orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt, Columbia catalog number 35488), by Dinah Shore with Paul Weston's orchestra (Bluebird catalog number 10793), and by Eddy Howard with Lou Adrian's orchestra (Columbia catalog number 35511).
In 1953, Bob Manning reached #16 on the pop charts with this song on Capitol Records #2383
The song was performed by Norah Jones on her album Come Away With Me. It was also performed by Diana Krall on a Geoff Keezer album, Turn Up the Quiet. Sheena Easton released her version from her standards album in 1993 No Strings and for the soundtrack of "Indecent Proposal"
Jonathan Frakes performed the song on trombone in "11001001," the 15th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1988 while in a holographic simulation of a 1958 New Orleans bar.
A live performance was given by Norah Jones at the Steve Jobs Memorial/Celebration of Life at the Apple, Inc. corporate headquarters on October 19, 2011.
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In the early 1980s Hartman gave several performances for jazz festivals, television, and radio before succumbing to lung cancer at the age of sixty. His reputation grew considerably in 1995 when the soundtrack to Clint Eastwood's Bridges of Madison County (1995) featured seven songs from the then out-of-print Bee Hive album.
Hartman's first biography, The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story, by Dr. Gregg Akkerman, was released in June 2012 by Scarecrow Press as part of their "Studies in Jazz" series.
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It's not the pale moon that delights me
That thrills and excites me, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
It isn't your sweet conversation
That brings this sensation, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
And when you're in my arms
And I feel you so close to me
All my wildest .. my wildest dreams come true
I need no soft lights to enchant me
If you'll only grant me the right
To hold you ever so tight
And to feel in the night
The nearness of you
~ Instrumental ~
And when you're in my arms
And I hold you so close to me
All my wildest .. my wildest dreams come true
I need no soft lights to enchant me
If you'll only..only grant me the right
Grant me the right
To hold you ever so tight
And to feel in the night
The nearness of you.
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Sublime! That was a sweet group who played on this.
Incredible!
Simply the best. Without parallel!
Johnny Hartman, the voice.
Wonderful!
Don
THANK YOU! BELÍSSIMO...
Thanks again, Patricia. Only a few have that deep baritone voice and can still sing these standards. Joe Williams is another.
Excelente!!!
Thanks Don.
Happy you like this wonderful song as sung by Johnny.
Hi Bob, love that muted trumpet.
Why is this wonderful singer so unknown??? Seriously, I want to know!
He is well known in certain circles. Unfortunately, Johnny and others like him don't get the air play that they should. Radio formats not in favor of good music.
Google him. This is from allmusic.com
Though he was never the most distinctive vocalist, Johnny Hartman rose above others to become the most commanding, smooth balladeer of the 1950s and '60s, a black crooner closely following Billy Eckstine and building on the form with his notable jazz collaborations, including the 1963 masterpiece John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Born in Chicago, ....read more