Look For The Silver Lining (Get Well/Thinking Of You)
Music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by B.G. "Buddy" De Sylva, from the Broadway musical "Sally," 1920. Sung in the musical originally by Jazz Age superstar Marilyn Miller, touchingly reprised by Judy Garland(playing Marilyn Miller) in the Hollywood Kern biopic, "Till The Clouds Roll By"(1946) and the title song for the 1949 Marilyn Miller biopic of the same name.
Lord's Prayer, The (Get Well/Thinking Of You)
Music by 20th century American composer Albert Hay Malotte, The classic text is the current Catholic version and that found in the 1928 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. The original source is the 1662 English translation drawn from Greek & Latin versions of Matthew 6:9-13.
Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag (Get Well/Thinking Of You)
WWI pick-me-up classic written in 1915 by the Welsh fraternal songwriting team of George Henry ("Asaf")Powell(lyrics) and Felix Powell(music).
Play A Simple Melody (Get Well/Thinking Of You)
Music & words by Irving Berlin(1888-1989) from "Watch Your Step," 1914. One of the earliest of Berlin's trademark counterpoint songs, 2 melodies sung separately, then simultaneously as a duet..
Roamin' River (Rio Grande) (Get Well/Thinking Of You)
"Rio Grande," a traditional 19th century sea chantey extolling not America's Southwestern waterway but a Brazilian river of the same name.
Sheep May Safely Graze (J.S. Bach)
The most famous theme from J.S. Bach's secular "Hunting Cantata," BWV 208, composed in Leipzig in 1713 as a commissioned birthday gift for a local German aristocrat.
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