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Soble Since: Dec, 2013

#1: Aug 12th 2019 at 8:02:36 PM

How does this song and its (many) iterations make you feel?

Any covers you'd like to bring attention to? Any technical or historical details to its composition or its lyrics you'd want to share?

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This song makes me feel so small. Like everything around me is just part of something greater, even my life. It's the type of music you'd listen to while looking out your window, wondering who else is looking at the same sky right at that moment

When I was a little boy, I once walked into my grandmothers room, and this song was playing on her old radio. She was holding a framed picture of my long-dead grandfather and herself from around the time they got married right after the war. They were tears on her cheeks. I asked her why she was sad, and she said she wasn't sad at all- she was crying because the world was such a beautiful place, and she got to experience it with someone she truly loved. I was only 5 or 6 years old at the time, but I will never forget that.

One of my Mother's most favorite songs...she'd play it over and over. Now she is 85 in a hospital and not speaking due to the anesthesia. However, to show the healing power of music, someone held the phone to her ear a 2nd time and Mother started moving her arms...Music and laughter heals...from what I've seen in life. All you musicians out there, keep doing what your heart tells you...hope you do...

Edited by Soble on Aug 12th 2019 at 8:14:33 AM

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#2: Jul 31st 2020 at 10:06:28 AM

Andy Williams' version.

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001

#3: Aug 12th 2020 at 10:19:47 PM

Not knowing much of jazz standards or having seen Breakfast At Tiffany's until a few years ago, this was the first version I heard. Maybe not the most technically "good" rendition vocally but I felt the emotion behind it in her version. She does arguably use the stereotypical "indie girl" baby voice here, but her first album was in 1987 so she might have helped invent that style of singing?

Edited by MikeK on Aug 31st 2020 at 9:44:34 AM

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#4: Aug 26th 2023 at 5:17:59 PM

My favorite version is the Cheers version

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