Someday I'll Find You
"Someday I'll Find You" is a song written by Noël Coward. It was introduced by Coward and Gertrude Lawrence in Coward's 1930 play Private Lives.[1]
It is played repeatedly by the hotel orchestra in the play, before being sung by the character Amanda and subsequently reprised in Act 2.[2] The song is a waltz and is written in the key of E-flat major.[1]
In his 1992 book Noel and Cole, Stephen Citron describes the song as encapsulating the whole theme of the play of Private Lives.[2] Musicologists Marvin E. Paymer and Don Post describe "Someday I'll Find You" as "broadly romantic and unabashedly sentimental" and argue that the development of the melody of the song is impressive, particularly as Coward could neither read nor write music.[1]
"Someday I'll Find You" was the theme for the radio drama Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, which ran from 1937 to 1955 on NBC Blue and CBS.[3]
Recordings
[edit]- Noël Coward - Noël Coward at Las Vegas (Columbia, 1955)
- Perry Como - The Best of British (RCA, 1977)
- Irene Kral - Gentle Rain (Choice Records, 1977)
- George Shearing - A Vintage Year (Concord, 1987)
- Claire Sweeney - Claire (T2, 2002)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Paymer, Marvin E.; Post, Don E. (1999). Sentimental Journey. Noble House Publishers. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-881907-09-1.
- ^ a b Citron, Stephen (1992). Noel and Cole. Sinclair-Stevenson. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-85619-085-5.
- ^ Johnson, Crockett (2020-12-01). Barnaby Vol. 4. Fantagraphics Books. p. 373. ISBN 978-1-68396-112-3.