A Certain Smile (song)

A Certain Smile is a song written by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster ( text ), which was published in 1958.

Use of the song

Fain and Webster wrote the song for the eponymous film (1958 ) by Jean Negulesco, which was based on the novel Un certain sourire (1955 ) by Françoise Sagan. Johnny Mathis introduced the song as Barsänger in the film. In the heyday of rock ' n ' roll Fain / Webster sat with her song on the type of the singer of romantic ballads and softer sounds; A Certain Smile was nominated in the category Best Song for an Oscar, the 1959 Frederick Loewe and Alan finally Jay Lerner received for the song Gigi.

The song begins with the lines:

First recordings and cover versions

Johnny Mathis played the song accompanied by Ray Elllis and His Orchestra A; B- side of the Columbia single was Let It Rain. Mathis was successful with A Certain Smile in the British and American charts. Back in 1959, took a Mantovani Easy Listening - Verion on; from the beginning of the 1960s, the song was often gecovert, including by Sunny Gale, Tony Crombie, Astrud Gilberto / Walter Wanderley, Ruud Brink, Ted Greene and Tim Eyerman. Also, Lol Coxhill on his album The Inimitable (1985 ) is of the song took on. Tom Lord lists 23 cover versions of the title