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This Nearly Was Mine" is a big bass solo for Emile in waltz time, deemed by Rodgers biographer William G. Hyland as "one of his finest efforts". [170] Only five notes are used in the first four bars, a phrase which is then repeated with a slight variation in the following four bars.
This Nearly Was Mine. Lyrics By Oscar Hammerstein II Music By Richard Rodgers. Emile, feeling he has lost the love of his life, grieves for the love-filled life he might have known.
The Original Soundtrack to the film South Pacific was released by RCA Victor in 1958. The film was based on the 1949 musical South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The composers had much say in this recording, with many of the songs performed by accomplished singers rather than the actors in the film. [1]
South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which in turn is loosely based on James A. Michener 's 1947 short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific.
Cable vows that, if he gets out of the war alive, he won’t go home to the United States; everything he wants is on these islands. Emile imagines what might have been (“This Nearly Was Mine”). Dejected and feeling he has nothing to lose, Emile agrees to join Cable on his dangerous mission. The mission begins with plenty of air support.
From the original 1949 Broadway cast recording of "South Pacific." This production won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; and won Tony Awards for Best Music...
"This Nearly Was Mine" is a song featured in Frank Sinatra 's 1963 album, The Concert Sinatra. Lyrics. One dream in my heart, one love to be living for, One love to be living for, this nearly was mine. One girl for my dream, one partner in paradise, This promise of paradise, this nearly was mine.
