Very few popular songs have been successfully introduced by opera stars on the screen. Gladys Swarhout, however, was no ordinary opera star during her hey day in the 1930s. She looked like a movie star and had a voice that could encompass the range of a pop song without sounding pretentious. Between 1936 and 1939, she made five films, playing a straight dramatic role in the last one. "The Nearness of You" was her final song in films and was featured in the 1938 motion picture Romance in the Dark, in which she starred with John Boles and John Barrymore. Hoagy Carmichael, who composed "The Nearness of You," counts it among his four favorite of his own compositions (the others are "Stardust," "Rockin' Chair" and "One Morning in May"). In 1940, Glenn Miller and his band recorded the song with Ray Eberele doing the vocal honors, and it was this version that contributed so much to its ultimate popularity.
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It's not the pale moon that excites me,
That thrills and de-lights me,
Oh, no, It's just the nearness of you.
It's isn't your sweet conversation
That brings this sensation,
Oh, no, It's just the nearness of you.
When you're in my arms,
And I feel you so close to me,
All 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.
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