LOVE IS THE THING
(Ned Washington / Victor Young)

Ethel Waters - 1933
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch. - 1933
Richard Himber & His Essex House Orch. - 1933
Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds Of Joy - 1940
Billy Eckstine & His Orch. - 1946
Nat King Cole - 1957
Etta Jones - 1961
Irving Ashby Quartet (Instr.) - 1976
Kenny Davern Quartet (Instr.) - 1988
Miriam Klein - 1994
Joyce Breach - 2001
Terrie Richards Alden - 2001
Rondi Charleston - 2003

Also recorded by: Billy May; Lena Horne; Alyce King;
Joe Mooney; Pha Terrell; Morton Downey; Keith Ingham;
Frankie Lyman & The Teenagers; .......... and others.


My darling all around us people clamour
They're striving for the thing they'll never own
The only thing that hasn't lost its glamour
Is love, and love alone

What does it matter if we're rich or we're poor
Fortune and fame they never endure
For love is the thing, love is the thing

What good is money if your heart isn't light
And here in your arms I'm wealthy tonight
When youth has its fling, love is the thing

While others fight for power
We can walk among the flowers
Knowing that the best thing in life
Is the thing that is free
Love for you and me

And even though our castles crumble and fall
We have the right to laugh at them all
For love is still king, love is the thing

(Orchestral Break)

While others fight for power
We can walk among the flowers
Knowing that the best thing in life
Is the thing that is free
Love for you and me

And even though our castles crumble and fall
We have the right to laugh at them all
For love is still king, love is the thing


(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - February 2005)