It's Magic

It's Magic is a song by Jule Styne (music) and Sammy Cahn ( text ), which was published in 1948.

Styne and Cahn wrote the song It's Magic for film comedy magic nights in Rio (1948, original title: Romance on the High Seas, directed by Michael Curtiz ), with Jack Carson and Janis Paige in the lead roles. The song is featured in the film by Doris Day, in Romance on the High Seas had her first film role. It's Magic 1949 received an Oscar nomination for Best Song.

The songwriting duo Styne / Kahn had written the song for the then relatively unknown Doris Day and Michael Curtiz made ​​the young singer to the attention, which then gave her her first major film role. As the song should play in a Latin American nightclub, gave Styne tune a slight Latin feel and Cahn wrote the matching text ..

Doris Days gramophone recording of the song appeared on Columbia Records 38188, coupled with Put Them in a Box Tie Em With a Rubbon. The recording was 21 weeks on the Billboard charts and reached # 2 Even the cover versions of Tony Martin (RCA Victor 20-2862 # 11 ), Dick Haymes ( Decca 23826; # 9), Gordon MacRae ( Capitol 15072; # 9) and Sarah Vaughan ( Musicraft Records 557; # 29) were in the American charts successful.

Recorded the song from the end of 1947, inter alia, by Mel Tormé, Tex Beneke, Charlie Mariano, Dinah Washington, Curtis Fuller / Tommy Flanagan, Keely Smith, Ralph Flanagan, Bobby Hackett, Etta Jones, Sammy Davis Jr., Abbey Lincoln and della Reese, what made ​​him a jazz standard. In later years, the song also, inter alia, by Carmen McRae, Hal Galper, Janet Seidel, Sue Raney, Gloria Lynne, Diane Schuur, Ahmad Jamal ( self-titled album, 2007) and Eddie Higgins has been interpreted. The disco Count Tom Lord lists 73 versions of the song.