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Lizz Wright has two incredible recordings of "The Nearness of You." Arguably the best interpretations I've heard — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.246.135.245 (talk) 02:36, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Date of publication and introduction are wrong!

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The first three paragraphs of this article contain a lot of erroneous information:

1st paragraph:- 'written in 1938'. I think this should be 1937 (as in the list of songs of the Hoagy Carmichael page).

2nd paragraph:- The assertion that it was introduced by Gladys Swarthout in the movie Romance in the Dark is often found but is not right. I watched this whole movie on Youtube and nowhere does it appear. Jazzstandards.com would seem to have the correct info, viz. that it was written for a never-produced movie called Romance in the Rough (this info comes from a reliable source: Richard Sudhalter’s Hoagy Carmichael biography Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael).

3rd paragraph:- I can find no publication earlier than 1940 apart from a Library of Congress booklet of songs for the above-named never-produced movie (a copyright deposit?). I very much doubt anyone recorded it until 1940. Current sheet-music has the copyright dates 1937 and 1940. Tiresias13 (talk) 12:04, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]