{"id":19372,"date":"2023-03-29T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=19372"},"modified":"2023-03-29T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:44:41","slug":"sunshine-of-your-smile-the","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/sunshine-of-your-smile-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine of your smile, The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
First Published<\/td>1913<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td><\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN23856<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Olga & Elga & Eli Hudson; John McCormack<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Broadhead, Albert; England : Yorkshire; 1970<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dear face that holds so sweet a smile for me,\nWere you not mine, how dark the world would be!\nI know no light above that could replace\nLove's radiant sunshine in your dear, dear face.\n\nGive me your smile, the love-light in your eyes,\nLife could not hold a fairer Paradise!\nGive me the right to love you all the while,\nMy world for ever, the sunshine of your smile!<\/em>\n\nShadows may fall upon the land and sea,\nSunshine from all the world may hidden be;\nBut I shall see no cloud across the sun;\nYour smile shall light my life, till life is done!<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
An early 2oth century popular ballad that was sung and recorded by number of artists in the period before World War I. It subsequently has become a bit of a standard, with versions by Django Reinhardt, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. In the pre war British Halls it was sung by, amongst others, the family trio Olga, Elga and Eli Hudson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was collected from one late 20th-century traditional singer, but is not perhaps widely sung in folk circles..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s a version by Sinatra when he was with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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