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Play Jazz Standards: When I Fall in Love, by Victor Young (Piano Solo sheet music)
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WHEN I FALL IN LOVE
Music: Victor Young – Lyrics: Edward Heyman
Year: 1952
On September 19, 1952, the war melodrama One Minute to Zero (Korea, zero hour) was released in the United States, produced by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Tay Garnett and starring Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman and Charles McGraw.
On the film’s soundtrack, ‘When I Fall in Love’ was played as an instrumental. A few months before the premiere, singer Jeri Southern, accompanied by the Victor Young orchestra, had recorded the song for the Decca label.
Victor Young and Edward Heyman had previously collaborated on ‘Love Letters’, a song from the movie Love Letters (Letters to my beloved, 1945). Later, in 1955, they wrote ‘Blue Star’, the theme song for the television series Medic.
Victor Young began his career as a classical composer and concert violinist, but decided to pursue popular music after a stint with the Isham Jones Orchestra.
In the 1930s, he moved to Hollywood where he composed the soundtracks for such famous films as Golden Boy (Golden Dream, 1939), For Whom the Bells Tolls (1943), Samson and Delilah (Samson and Delilah, 1949), The Quiet Man (The quiet man, 1952), Scaramouche (Scaramouche, 1952), Something to Live For (A reason to live, 1952), Shane (Deep Roots, 1953) and Written on the Wind (Written on the wind, 1956), among many others.
He was nominated twenty-two times for an Oscar for his work in film, receiving four nominations in the same year on two occasions, but he did not live to see any awards. When he won his only Oscar, for the soundtrack of Around the World In Eighty Days (Around the world in eighty days, 1956), he had already passed away.
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