name the musical

[Briar Rose 7457]

-it was a top 40 hit by 4 different artists: Tony Bennett -peak Billboard position # 2 in 1954
-competing versions charted by The Four Aces (#3), Tony Martin (#10) and Gordon MacRae (#29)

Stranger In Paradise
-Words and Music by Robert Wright and George Forrest


Take my hand
I'm a stranger in paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise
If I stand starry-eyed
That's the danger in paradise
For mortals who stand beside an angel like you

I saw your face and I ascended
Out of the commonplace into the rare
Somewhere in space I hang suspended
Until I know there's a chance that you care

Won't you answer this fervent prayer
Of a stranger in paradise?
Don't send me in dark despair
From all that I hunger for

But open your angel's arms
To this stranger in paradise
And tell him that he need be
A stranger no more

 

[Serena]

 

[gepetto]

Kismet

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

Im making these to easy -- last night Dan Murphy got Mick Jagger in one guess. tonight Gepetto wins the prize.

but can you name the remake from the 1970's which starrred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore? it wasn't called Kismet, it was....

 

[gepetto]

Timbuktu