(Love Is) The Tender Trap

( Love Is) The Tender Trap is a song by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn ( text ), which was published in 1955.

Van Heusen and Cahn wrote the song for the movie The tender trap ( The Tender Trap ), including with Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra in the lead roles. Sinatra, accompanying himself on piano, and Reynolds him sing in a duo.

The song, which took up as the film's ambivalent attitude of Americans to marriage and marriage in the 1950s, was nominated for a Best Song Oscar in the category, the 1948 Sammy Fain and finally Paul Francis Webster for the song Love Is a Many Splendored Thing received.

Sinatra - accompanied by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra - took ( Love Is) The Tender Trap ( with Weep They Will B-side ) as a single for Capitol Records on (F 3290 ). In the field of jazz and pop music numerous cover versions of the songs were recorded in the mid- 1950s; Tom Lord lists 38 versions of the title, inter alia, by Ella Fitzgerald / Tutti Camarata, George Rhodes, Tommy Dorsey, Mel Tormé, Ray Anthony, Paul Quinichette, Buddy Greco, Oscar Peterson, Ted Heath, Sylvia Syms, Sammy Davis Jr., Billy Eckstine, Dominique Eade, Ralph Sharon, Stacey Kent and Janis Siegel, in the 1990s, a duo of Robert Palmer / Clare Fischer.