A Very Precious Love

A Very Precious Love is a song by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster ( lyrics ) was written and published in 1957.

Background

Fain and Webster wrote A Very Precious Love for the movie The Love of Marjorie Morningstar ( Original title: Marjorie Morningstar (1958 ), directed by Irving Rapper) with Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly in the lead roles. In the film the song was presented by Gene Kelly. The song received it in 1958 an Oscar nomination for Best Song.

The first lines of the song are:

A Very Precious Love was recorded in the 1950s in the United States by numerous musicians, including by The Ames Brothers, Doris Day, Slim Whitman, Jack Jones and Bonnie Guitar. The version of the Ames Brothers RCA Victor came to the American Billboard charts in March 1958; the version of Doris Day was in the UK at # 16 of the charts. Other cover versions of the song took on, inter alia, Urbie Green, Charlie Spivak, Harry Allen, Dick Haymes and Ronnie Wells.