" MY HEART STOOD STILL" A POSITIVE SONG OF ROMANCE

"My Heart Stood Still" A Positive Song of Romance:  Affairs of the heart are subjects that many of the finest songwriters have created over the years. Some recent posts of this blog have dwelt on the more unsuccessful romantic relationships , many are some of the finest songs in the Great American Songbook catalogue. " Blues in the Hight" " One More For My Baby"  But Not For Me" " Glad To Be Unhappy" " I Wish I Were In Love Again" " The Man That got Away" Nobody' s Heart" and " When Your Lover Has Gone " to name just a few.
Rodgers and Hart were able to cover the broad spectrum of love's found and lost and then regained. One example of their positive take on instant infatuation is the song  "  My Heart Stood Still." and  written for " A Connecticutt Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in 1927. It is an example of step-wise writing moving very gradually with the melody and ending in the upper register with the words"  I never lived at all. Until the thrill of that moment when my heart stood still."
Frank Sinatra sings with  gradually building intensity in the final section ending with a very dramatic conclusion. He was supported by yet another marvellous Nelson Riddle arrangement with his usual mastery of writing for the string section.
Many people may also have been instantly bewitched by a powerful instant infatuation. Some may have led to a life long connection, others just a brief moment in time becoming " Just One of Those Things." as Cole Porter has acknowledged.

LINK: http://youtu.be/wDjPYO5ZNnk