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Acércate Más (Come Closer to Me)

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"Come Closer to Me"
Single by Nat King Cole
Released1958
Songwriter(s)Osvaldo Farrés, Al Stewart[1]
"Come Closer to Me"
Single by Ben E King
from the album Spanish Harlem
Released1961
Songwriter(s)Osvaldo Farrés, Al Stewart[2]

"Acércate Más" is a 1946 hit song by Osvaldo Farrés. It was translated into English as "Come Closer to Me," in the film Easy to Wed by Carlos Ramírez (singer),[3] and covered by Nat King Cole (1958, in both English and Spanish; 2013, posthumous duet with Daughter Natalie Cole), Pilita Corrales (1959), Perry Como, Ben E. King (1961), Walter Laird, Fred Bongusto and others.

References

  1. ^ https://www.discogs.com/Nat-King-Cole-Come-Closer-To-Me-Acercate-Mas-Nothing-In-The-World/master/390781
  2. ^ https://www.discogs.com/Nat-King-Cole-Come-Closer-To-Me-Acercate-Mas-Nothing-In-The-World/master/390781
  3. ^ Boze Hadleigh Mexico's Most Wanted TM: The Top 10 Book of Chicano Culture, 2007 "“COME CLOSER TO ME” For once, the English title's translation was close to the Spanish: the 1946 “Acercate Mas” (come closer) by Osvaldo Farres became “Come Closer to Me,” sung in the film Easy to Wed by Carlos Ramirez. The song ..."