For the last week or so, “The Shadow of Your Smile” has been running through my head. It started last Tuesday or Wednesday. I remember at Matt’s valedictory dinner (with mahimahi wrapped in halibut, yum) I asked the pianist to play it, so it was firmly ensconced by then.
The song was written by Johnny Mandel, who also wrote another haunting song, the theme from M*A*S*H. It took me a while to find this, folks! Sinatra comes up first on writer "shadow of your smile", but lists no writer.
Paul Francis Webster wrote the lyrics:
The shadow of your smile when you are gone
Will color all my dreams and light the dawn
Look into my eyes my love and see
All the things you mean to me.
Our wistful little star was far too high
A teardrop kissed your lips and so did I
Now when I remember spring
All the joy that love can bring
I will be remembering
The shadow of your smile. |
It was composed for the movie The Sandpiper.
While I’m at it: the lyrics to the theme to M*A*S*H. Mike Altman, the lyricist, is, I believe, the son of Robert “Scumbag” Altman. Good lyrics, but he seems not to have produced anything else afterwards. I hope he didn’t take his lyrics to heart. According to IMDB, he wrote it when he was fourteen.
Speaking of IMDB, Neil Gaiman printed a letter from a certain Cathy mentioning Internet Book List, the book-reader’s hopeful counterpart to the IMDB.
And a Manila site I haven’t explored much: Songtrellis.
11:58:32 PM 
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