More Music Videos: ILoveProfHowdy.Com "Beyond the Sea" is a 1946 contemporary pop song with music taken from the song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. Trenet had composed "La Mer" (which means "The Sea") with French lyrics totally different and unrelated to the English language version that Lawrence composed. Trenet's French version was an homage and ode to the changing moods of the sea, while Lawrence, by just adding one word "Beyond" to the title, gave him the start whereby he made the song into one of a lover pining for a lost love. It has been recorded by many artists, including Benny Goodman, Mantovani, Roger Williams and Gisele MacKenzie, but Bobby Darin's version released in 1959 is the best known by many, reaching #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song reached the top 40 twice prior to the Darin version (Goodman-1948, Williams-1955). +++ "The Girl That I Marry" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, written by Irving Berlin. It was originally performed by Ray Middleton on stage and on record. Other hit versions in 1946 were by Frank Sinatra and Eddy Howard (Majestic label). Eddy Howard recorded a second rendition in the early 1950s on the Mercury label. Later Renditions Include: Per Grundén with orchestra Conductor: Hans Schreiber. Swedish lyrics written by Stig Bergendorff and Gösta Bernhard entitled "Den flickan skal bära mitt namn". Recorded in Stockholm on August 19, 1949 and released on the 78 rpm record His Master's Voice X ...
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