Many of the songs were sung by the cast, including Debi Jones’s light rendition of Buttons and Bows and Angela Walsh’s heart-breaking rendition of Johnny Mercer’s I Wanna Be Around.
The film also features a juxtaposition of Ella Fitzgerald singing Taking a Chance on Love with a scene of brutal domestic violence.
There’s a Man Goin’ Round Takin’ Names Jessye Norman
I Get the Blues When it Rains Marcy Klauber
Oh, Mein Papa Eddie Calvert
Roll out the Barrel (Beer Barrel Polka) Jaromír Vejvoda
A Hymn to the Virgin Benjamin Britten
Pastoral Symphony No.3 Vaughan Williams
Love is a Many Splendored Thing Mantovani
Up the Lazy River Hoagy Carmichael
Galway Bay Tommy Riley
Taking a Chance on Love Ella Fitzgerald
Finger of Suspicion Dicky Valentine
My Yiddishe Momma Anne Shelton
Brown Skin Girl King Radio
Back in the Old Routine Wilson Stone
I Love the Ladies (Traditional)
Buttons and Bows Jay Livingston Ray Evans
If You Knew Suzie Joseph Meyer & Stephen W. Ballantine, George Buddy De Sylva
I Wanna Be Around Johnny Mercer (sung in the 1950s by Julie London)
O Waly, Waly Peter Pears
The melody Limelight, played on the harmonica, is taken Chaplin’s 1952 film (which 20 years later won the Best Original Score Oscar).
