Beyond the Sea (song)
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| "Beyond the Sea" | |||||
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| Song by Bobby Darin | |||||
| Album | That's All | ||||
| Released | Darin: 1959 (Lawrence: 1946) |
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| Genre | Big Band | ||||
| Length | 2:55 | ||||
| Label | Atco | ||||
| Composer | Jack Lawrence/Charles Trenet | ||||
| That's All track listing | |||||
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"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 from 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 where by he made the song into one of a lover pining for a lost love.[1]
It has been recorded by many singers, 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).
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[edit] Performances by Darin
Films and TV shows to use Darin's recording include: Apollo 13, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Diner, Goodfellas, Lost, Black Rain and The X-Files, as well as the video game BioShock. The song was also played in a 2005 commercial for Carnival Cruise Lines. A portion of Bobby Darin's recording was played during the splashdown and post-recovery of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 in the first episode of the 1998 HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon.
[edit] Performances as Darin
Kevin Spacey sang the song in the movie Beyond the Sea, a biopic about Bobby Darin, in a "fantasy" sequence leading up to his marriage to Sandra Dee. Similarly, on the television series American Dreams, Duncan Sheik performed the song while playing the role of Bobby Darin.
[edit] Other versions
Another recording of the song released in 1965 as the B-side of American folk-rock band We Five's #1-hit "You Were On My Mind" is also well-known. Robbie Williams covered the song on the Finding Nemo soundtrack. The Irish musical group Celtic Woman covered this song for their two albums, A New Journey and The Greatest Journey Essential Collection, and in each album, Chloë Agnew and Hayley Westenra sing a solo in the first verse. It was also covered by Moby and Oscar The Punk on the Bioshock PC Game soundtrack. In 1998, it was released in a swing-tempo cover by Royal Crown Revue on the Mugsy's Move album. In the movie A Life Less Ordinary, it was sang by Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz.
[edit] References
- ^ Soeder, John (December 27, 2004). - "Darin Continues to be Defined by Single ‘Sea’". - The Plain Dealer.
—Hedgpeth, Steve (January 10, 2005). - "In any language, it's a hit - RICKY RETRO". - The Star-Ledger.
—Schudel, Matt (March 18, 2009). - "Composer's Hits Helped Singers Such as Sinatra". - The Washington Post.
[edit] External links
- "Beyond The Sea". - Jack Lawrence Website.
- Official Bobby Darin fansite
