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The song "Love with the Proper Stranger" was composed by Johnny Mercer
and Elmer Bernstein, sung by Jack Jones.
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Bernstein began composing music for the movies in the early 1950's.
He composed Love with the Proper Stranger for the movie in 1963.
http://www.couchcowboy.com/Campfire/Bernstein.htm
From an interview with Elmer Bernstein by Cynthia Millar
The Guardian - October 9, 2002
“I guess we should talk about my relationship with the Pakula/Mulligan
team. Alan Pakula had not directed at that point, he was a producer.
Robert Mulligan was the director. I first met Alan after The Ten
Commandments. “
(..)
I said to him, "One day you're going to do a movie and I'll do the
score." And the next thing I know, he's formed a partnership with
Robert Mulligan. They did a film called Fear Strikes Out with Anthony
Perkins. They then did a film called Love with the Proper Stranger
with Steve McQueen. And ultimately they did To Kill a Mockingbird,
which was their crowning glory. That was a long relationship. There
were other films I did for them which we don't have to talk about.
Source: Elmer Bernstein Website
http://www.elmerbernstein.com/bio/interviews/guardian_2.html
Lyrics:
“I could fall in love with the proper stranger
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
If two certain eyes with the look of danger
Smiled a welcome warm as Spring”
Due to copyright reason I can’t copy the complete lyrics here but you
may view the lyrics at the following websites:
http://www.thepeaches.com/music/composers/mercer/LoveWithTheProperStranger.txt
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/3225/Misc_Pop/Jack_Jones/Love_With_The_Proper_Stranger.txt
Elmer Bernstein talks about "Love With The Proper Stranger"
"In the case of 'Love With The Proper Stranger,' which is the song
that I wrote on this album, I was working with one of the all-time
great lyric writers, Johnny Mercer. And Mercer went away for about
three weeks after we had our initial meeting.
"Then about three weeks later, he called me on the telephone. 'You
want to work on the song?' I said 'Absolutely!' So we went down to an
office at Paramount and he came in and had about six pages of lined
paper with lyrics on them that he'd written. And he said, 'Pick
something.' Really it was like that!
"So I looked at it and the line that struck me -- the name of the
picture is 'Love With The Proper Stranger' -- the line that struck me
was 'I could fall in love with a proper stranger, if I heard the bells
and banjos ring' My Goodness! What a line!"
http://www.iaisnd.com/tv/movie/movie2.htm
The CD Jack Jones - Greatest Hits includes the song Love with the
Proper Stranger.
You may purchase this CD at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002OXN/qid=1056945872/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/002-9077758-4716852
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