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The songs performed by Peg La Centra


Hello everybody,

I just absolutely LOVE this movie, particulary the scenes in the bar featuring (unfortunatly cut) songs performed by the great singer (and voice dubber) Peg La Centra. I can name two of the songs ("Embracable you" and "You do something to me") but I'd love to know the titles of the other ones, so if you should know them PLEASE let me know! Any help is appreciated!

Regards,
Anna

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"What is this thing called Love?"

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She starts with "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans." There's a too-short snippet of something I didn't recognize, then the scene changes. In her next sequence, it's "You Do Something To Me" and the beginning of "What Is This Thing Called Love?" In her last scene, the drunken JC sings along with "Embraceable You."

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I've searched Google, but can't find any songs by Peg La Centra online unfortunately, and not one result on p2p programs...

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.

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Most of the piano tinkling in the background is a continuation of "I guess". At the very end it seems for the soundtrack the song was cut. Based on the lyrics as the scene ends, it is "My heart stood still", which has been sung by Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Como, and others and croaked by Rod Stewart.

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The other "too-short snippet" of a song was Rodgers and Hart's "My Heart Stood Still." She actually plays quite a bit of it, including the opening verse and the first stanza. The scene closes with her singing the [title] words '...My Heart Stood Still' as the camera zooms in on a figurine.

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can you tell me the name of the main violin song??

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Wow this thread is ten years old! There's some LaCentra tunes on YouTube and archive.org.

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