Sweet Adeline
music by henry w. armstrong / lyrics by richard h. gerard
YOU'RE THE FLOWER OF MY HEART (SWEET ADELINE)
SWEET ADELINE (SONG CAR-TUNES) 1926
SWEET ADELINE (SONG CAR-TUNES) 1926
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Sweet Adeline, also known as You're The Flower Of My Heart, Sweet Adeline, was written in 1896 by an 18 year old Harry Armstrong with lyricist Richard Husch Gerard. The song was inspired by a girl named Rosalie that worked at the music counter in a department store in New York City. After trouble selling the song with it's original name, the girl's name was changed to Adeline in the title and lyrics - this was apparently inspired by a poster for opera singer Adelina Patti's farewell tour. In 1904, both the Hayden Quartet and The Pearless Quartet had a #1 hit with the song. In 1906, Boston's mayor (and later congressman) John F. Fitzgerald (the maternal grandfather of President John F. Kennedy) adopted the song as his personal theme song, - he sang it at countless political events and on the radio. The ballad went on to become one of the best known and most loved Barbershop Quartet standards. In 1926 the song made it's first of many appearances on the big screen in an installment of the Song Car-Tunes series.
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1904
HAYDN QUARTET |
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1904
CAMPBELL AND HARRISON |
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1904
THE PEERLESS QUARTET |
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1912
ALICE NIELSEN |
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19??
RENERA |
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19??
JERRY COLONNA |
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19??
EDDIE CONDON |
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1939
MILLS BROTHERS |
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1939
ARTIE SHAW |
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19??
THE MELLOMEN |
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1952
I LOVE LUCY |
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19??
THE SEEKERS |
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1959
THE CREW CUTS |
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19??
THE STAY UP LATES |
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1984
FRIENDS OF YESTERDAY |
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19??
VOCAL MINORITY |
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1992
PANACHE |
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1996
FRED |
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19??
TED KENNEDY |
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2007
GORDON AND MCKENNA |
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2007
LOVE KITTENS |
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2007
THE FABOLOUS PINK FLAMINGOS |
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2011
SURROUND SOUND |
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2013
THE MAYBERRY QUARTET |
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2017
THRE RITZ |
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2017
AVERIEL AND THE SEQUOIAS |
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20??
A CAPPELLA TRUDBOL |
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SWEET ADELINE
In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming
Of days gone by, love, to me so dear,
There's a picture that in fancy oft' appearing,
Brings back the time, love, when you were near.
It is then I wonder where you are, my darling,
And if your heart to me is still the same.
For the sighing wind and nightingale a-singing
Are breathing only your own sweet name.
CHORUS:
Sweet Adeline, (My Adeline,)
My Adeline, (My Adeline,)
At night, dear heart, (At night, dear heart,)
For you I pine. (For you I pine.)
In all my dreams, (In all my dreams,)
Your fair face beams. (Your fair face beams.)
You're the flower of my heart,
Sweet Adeline. (My Adeline.)
I can see your smiling face as when we wandered
Down by the brook-side, just you and I,
And it seems so real at times 'til I awaken,
To find all vanished, a dream gone by.
If we must meet sometime in after years, my darling,
I trust that I will find your love still mine,
Though my heart is sad and clouds above are hov'ring
The sun again, love, for me would shine.
In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming
Of days gone by, love, to me so dear,
There's a picture that in fancy oft' appearing,
Brings back the time, love, when you were near.
It is then I wonder where you are, my darling,
And if your heart to me is still the same.
For the sighing wind and nightingale a-singing
Are breathing only your own sweet name.
CHORUS:
Sweet Adeline, (My Adeline,)
My Adeline, (My Adeline,)
At night, dear heart, (At night, dear heart,)
For you I pine. (For you I pine.)
In all my dreams, (In all my dreams,)
Your fair face beams. (Your fair face beams.)
You're the flower of my heart,
Sweet Adeline. (My Adeline.)
I can see your smiling face as when we wandered
Down by the brook-side, just you and I,
And it seems so real at times 'til I awaken,
To find all vanished, a dream gone by.
If we must meet sometime in after years, my darling,
I trust that I will find your love still mine,
Though my heart is sad and clouds above are hov'ring
The sun again, love, for me would shine.
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