I Just Found Out About Love

"I Just Found Out About Love" is a popular song composed by Jimmy McHugh, with lyrics by Harold Adamson for the short-lived musical Strip for Action. After several pre-Broadway tryouts, the show finally came to Boston in April 1956, where it "fell off the rails completely." The city authorities tried to ban it for gratuitous nudity, because of a scene involving two girls in flesh-colored body stockings who posed discreetly upstage. The show closed early and never made it to Broadway.[1]

Other songs in the musical were "Too Young to Go Steady", "Dame Crazy" and "Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow".

Notable recordings

  • Nat King Cole - for his EP Nat "King" Cole Sings Songs from "Strip for Action" (1956).[2]
  • Ronnie Hilton - a single release in the UK in 1956.[3]
  • Johnny Mathis - for his double album The Rhythms and Ballads of Broadway (1960)
  • Fran Jeffries - included in her album Fran: Can Really Hang You Up the Most (1961)
  • Dinah Washington - included in her album Tears and Laughter (1962)
  • Diane Schuur - Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra (1987)
  • Marina Xavier - Where Do You Start? (2010)
  • Diana Krall - Performed live at her 2010 concert in Montreux

References

  1. ^ Shipton, Alyn (2009). I Feel a Song Coming on: The Life of Jimmy McHugh. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. p. 207. ISBN 9780252034657.
  2. ^ "Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  3. ^ "45worlds.com". 45worlds.com. Retrieved January 24, 2018.


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