Young At Heart

Album: This Is Sinatra! (1953)
Charted: 2
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  • Fairy tales can come true
    It can happen to you if you're young at heart
    For it's hard, you will find
    To be narrow of mind if you're young at heart

    You can go to extremes with impossible schemes
    You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams
    And life gets more exciting with each passing day
    And love is either in your heart or on it's way

    Don't you know that it's worth
    Every treasure on earth to be young at heart
    For as rich as you are
    It's much better by far to be young at heart

    And if you should survive to a hundred and five
    Look at all you'll derive out of bein' alive
    And here is the best part, you have a head start
    If you are among the very young at heart

    And if you should survive to a hundred and five
    Look at all you'll derive out of bein' alive
    And here is the best part, you have a head start
    If you are among the very young at heart Writer/s: Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Wise Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1954 {April 29th} "Young At Heart"* by Frank Sinatra peaked at #2 {for 1 week} on Billboard's 'Best Sellers In Stores' chart, for the week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Wanted" by Perry Como...
    Also at the time, "Young At Heart" was at position #5 on the Billboard's 'Most-Played On Juke Boxes' chart...
    Between 1939 and 1980 the Hoboken, New Jersey native had one hundred ninety eight charted records, sixty seven made the Top 10 with eleven reaching #1...
    His first four charted records were with the Harry James Orchestra, and his next forty charted records with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra...
    Ten of his charted records were duets, two with the Ken Lane Quintet, and one each with the Charioteers, the Pied Pipers, the Page Cavanaugh Trio, the Tony Mottola Trio, the Jeff Alexander Choir, Keely Smith, Sammy Davis, J., and Nancy Sinatra...
    Francis Albert Sinatra passed away at the age of 82 on May 14th, 1998...
    May he R.I.P.
    * "Young At Heart" was Frank Sinatra's third of three of his records to peak at #2, his other two #2 records were "Oh!, Look At Me Now" for five weeks in March of 1941 and "Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night In The Week)" for one week in March of 1945...
    And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the remainder of the 'Best Sellers In Stores' Top 10 on April 29th, 1954:
    At #3. "Cross Over The Bridge" by Patti Page
    #4. "Make Love To Me" by Jo Stafford
    #5. "Oh, Baby Mine" by the Four Knights
    #6. "Little Things Mean A Lot" by Kitty Kallen
    #7. "Man With The Banjo" by the Ames Brothers
    #8. "Answer Me, My Love" by Nat 'King' Cole
    #9. "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" by Kay Starr
    #10. "The Man Upstairs" by Kay Starr
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