My father loved this song and used to sing it to my mother. Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics to the song and George Gershwin composed the music. Chappell & Co. Inc. published this sheet music in 1938. I present, "Our Love Is Here To Stay" from 30th anniversary reissue of Natalie Cole's bestselling and 7x Grammy-winning album, Unforgettable…with Love. The newly-remastered album was first released in 1991. Do you remember "Our Love is Here to Stay"?

Bart Howard worked as master of ceremonies at the Blue Angel nightclub. He composed numerous songs for the various performers, including Mercer, Johnny Mathis, and Eartha Kitt. He usually wrote both the words and music, like his idol Cole Porter. One day in 1953 he sat down to write a new song with all the conventional imagery of love songs and had it finished in about 20 minutes. He called in "In Other Words," but the first line of the chorus was "Fly Me to the Moon." It really started to take off when Peggy Lee sang it on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1960. She also realized that the chorus makes little sense without the verse. And the verse, by the way, has four beats to a measure. Do you remember "Fly Me to the Moon"?

"The Very Thought of You" is a pop standard published in 1934, music and lyrics by Ray Noble. Ray Noble was a popular English bandleader/pianist and the first to become a success in America. At age 21 he became the staff arranger for the BBC Dance Orchestra and the following year, music director for HMV Records. His successful recordings led to an invitation to appear with his vocalist, Al Bowlly, in 1934 at the Rainbow Room atop New York's RCA building. "The Very Thought of You "was also a 1944 film starring Dennis Morgan and Eleanor Parker. I present Tony Bennett performing "The Very Thought Of You" with Ana Carolina. Do you remember "The Very Thought of You"?

Written for a Hitchcock film, it was first recorded by Doris Day. "Que Sera Sera" was written by the legendary team of Livingston and Evans. The title of "Que Sera Sera" was found by Jay Livingston in the film The Barefoot Contessa, where those words are seen carved in stone, translated in the film by Rosanna Brazzi as "What will be, will be." Jay recognized a good title when he saw it, and the team wrote the song, one of their only hits written without an assignment. Two weeks later, a call came from Alfred Hitchcock's office saying the director needed a song for a movie in which Doris Day would sing to a little boy. Livingston, knowing this just-completed song was ideal, waited for two weeks so it appeared they wrote it expressly for Hitch, and went to play it for him. Hitchcock's famous response was, "Gentlemen, I didn't know what kind of song I wanted, and that is the kind of song I want!" It became Doris Day's signature song although, as explained here, she didn't like the song at all at first. Thinking it was all wrong for her. She was wrong, of course, as it became her theme song, and she sang it thousands of times. I still love singing this song, just as I did as a young girl with my father beside me at the piano. Have you seen the 1956 HItchcock film "The Man Who Knew Too Much"?

Leroy Anderson wrote "Sandpaper Ballet" during 5 days before recording the composition on June 25, 1954. Percussionists play sandpaper blocks in three grades - coarse, medium and fine - to imitate the sound of old Vaudeville soft-shoe dance.. It has been used by dancers in national competitions and has also inspired the 1999 ballet (of the same title) by Mark Morris and the San Francisco Ballet. The piece has brought out the sense of humor of the Boston Pops when, before performing the composition, three percussionists would come up front and "tune" their sandpaper. It is interesting to note that, as biographer George Wright Briggs points out, Anderson "was an excellent dancer himself, unexpectedly so, in view of his Swedish reserve." My father and I got busted!! I was rubbing the hard word floor with my shoes trying to make the sound for my father! My mother was horrified as she had recently polished the hardwood floors. She had me repolish the floors in stocking feet and that ended up being fun, my sister helped me. Do you remember "The Sandpaper Ballet"?

The "Flower Duet" from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé is a well-known piece of music, but the lyrics were not written by the composer himself. The libretto, which includes the text for the music, was written by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. Léo Delibes composed the music for the opera, and therefore, the music for the "Flower Duet". The "Flower Duet" is sung by the characters Lakmé and Mallika in the first act of the opera. This is one of my favorite pieces of Music and it always brings me peace and calm. Do you recall this "Flower Duet"?