Sinatra, Frank - Our Town Lyrics






You will like the folks you meet - in our town
The folks you meet on any street - in our town

Pick out any cottage - white or brown
They're all so appealing - with that lived in feeling

You will like the shady lanes - in our town
The music of the passing trains - in our town

You will lose your heart - I promise you
In this - our two-by-four town
Welcome - on the door town
If you'll - make it your town too





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  1. m.... ....

    Great. Thanks for posting it,

  2. J.... Y....

    So lovely - and Nelson Riddle's accompaniment only enhances its beauty.

  3. H.... L....

    Made in 1955, available on amazon.  James Dean was suppose to play the Paul Newman part originally scheduled for the fall but Sinatra was unavailable then.

  4. d.... c....

    I have our town the prouders showcase on dvd I have two cipes :)

  5. C.... B....

    he is the greatest of all time

  6. C.... ....

    No thumbs down! Finally a community that has taste!! Salute to all of yas proudly from The Bronx New York!!

  7. R.... L....

    Kaplan says in volume 2 of his book "Sinatra" that Frank was essentially miscast in this live TV production of "Our Town" done in 1954, when TV was still in the hands of the artists and not the ratings crazy bureaucrats. That an Italian kid from Hoboken didn't belong in a small waspy New Hampshire town (well, then, neither did Paul Newman).But Sinatra was at his vocal peak at the time, probably the best singer in the English language, and Cahn/van Heusen wrote him a bunch of songs charted by the great Riddle, which Frank sang so well that it HAD to have helped this otherwise stodgy production. Sinatra's magnificent phrasing and breathe control are evident in the introductory song "Our Town", done live at the time. It is said he walked on the set, without any dress rehearsal, and did his part live without a hitch. He was a very special talent.

    R.... L....

    Yeah he was at his vocal peak and a good actor at that! Who knows

    R.... L....

    Thanks for sharing, Rob.

    R.... L....

    Interesting and unsettling to think - but in the end, talent prevailed and what a legacy here and everywhere - thanks for sharing.

  8. P.... ....

    This is one of Sinatra's minor masterpieces. The melody is more open ended, has a looser structure, than the tight standard pop songs - Love And Marriage for example. As such it requires a maximum of interpretive inflection to hold it together, and needless to say Frank carries it off masterfully.

    Makes me cry. I saw it as a 9 year old on the old black and white Admiral TV. Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" was brought back to Broadway around '68 or '69. Took a fabulous looking dame to see it who hardly spoke English. It was lost on her. Never copped. Never got a second date. Oh well.

    P.... ....

    This is a LOT better song than Love & Marriage. "Our 2 x 4 town" wow! What lyrics! i also like The Impossible Years from this show. I was in high school when it came out on TV.

    P.... ....

    PalJoey1957 uii8

  9. S.... W....

    Indeed, this should be revived on Broadway or made into a movie.

  10. s.... ....

    On this day in 1955 {September 19th} Frank Sinatra performed "Love and Marriage" on the NBC-TV production of the play 'Our Town'...
    Two months later on November 5th it entered Billboard's Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #5 & spent 17 weeks on the Top 100...
    Between 1987 and 1997 it was used as the theme song for Fox-TV's 'Married...with Children'...
    On Nov. 12th, 1955 Dinah Shore's version made the Top 100, it reached #20...
    RIP Mr. Sinatra {1915 - 1998} & Ms. Shore {1916 - 1994}...

  11. L.... D....

    Another fellow from jersey par dinizio covered this ... Dn if it wasn't just as good... Must be something in the water at NJ

  12. B.... L....

    A masterpiece.

  13. J.... D....

    This was from a 1955 TV musical of Our Town with Sinatra as the narrator. From this show came this lovely song and "Love and Marriage." Was this the only production? This should really be a Broadway musical. Maybe the rights are tied up? Lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Like Emily said, "Does anyone really appreciate life minute by minute?" Her mom said, "Oh poets, maybe, some. Words were something like that.

  14. J.... D....

    Wow! Thanks for posting this!

  15. J.... M....

    Hello Typeman, why is it an anti racism song?

  16. J.... M....

    I've always liked this song

    J.... M....

    This is a masterpiece!

  17. B.... W....

    A great piece ... too bad it gets so little play.