Old Song - What's It Called?

t0md1ckharr1 | 08:55 Tue 18th Aug 2015 | Music

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Two lovers walking in the park exchanging endearments ("I love you dearly, dearly and I hope you love me") but, when anyone gets near, they turn to discussion of the weather ("Isn't it a lovely day...") - the music changes too.
The two tunes are running round in my head - please make it stop! If I can find out what the song is, I might be able to find it recorded somewhere.

Fatbox

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Mamyalynne

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18:00 Sat 22nd Aug 2015

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Robinia

"I love you dearly, dearly and I hope you love me" are words included in the song 'The Honeysuckle and the Bee' if that helps.

t0md1ckharr1

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Thank you, thank you thank you! As soon as I saw the title I recognised it. But now that I've listened to it on Youtube, it appears that I've got two songs in my head not one. Perhaps I heard them on a radio program which contrived the scenario of the lovers in the park and slotted in the appropriate songs. The first ("I love you dearly....") is certainly Honeysuckle & Bee but "isn't it a lovely day"...."May"...."weather" (that's all I can remember) is a completely different tune & tempo (bouncy is the best description I can manage).

Robinia

I was humming that line over and over and couldn't get to to the title....until I'd got to the top of the stairs. I came back and answered before I lost it again and now I've got the song in my head :)

The only think I can think of re your second tune is 'Isn't This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)'. Maybe I need to go back upstairs to think :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6FLfHTC68

t0md1ckharr1

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I know the one you're thinking of from 'Top Hat' but this one is a bit more ... (gosh, I wish I knew about tempo) ... short, sharp, light & bright. A bit like people almost caught talking about something secret and having to change the subject rapidly, discussing something innocuous and doing it a bit too rapidly & brightly. And I'm sure the first words are "Isn't it a lovely day"

fiction-factory

This?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KfLWMoObRg

fiction-factory

Sorry- that's the same song

Robinia

I don't think I can help with that one then although I've now got Jolly Holiday from Mary Poppins going round in my head
Ain't it a glorious day?
Right as a mornin' in May

Please tell me it isn't that one? :)

t0md1ckharr1

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Thanks Robinia but the staccato nature of the tune lends itself to the stiff formality of a discussion of the weather. I've now mentally added a second line to get "May" to scan.. "Very, very warm for May" and suddenly it's made me think it's reminiscent of a Noel Coward delivery.
Thanks too to 'fiction-factory' - I really enjoyed the Peter Skellern interpretation you linked-in. I'm alternating it in my head with the other two.
I wish Google would give you what you want not what it wants you to have!

t0md1ckharr1

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GOT IT! Well, sort of......
The original is called 'Charming Weather' from 'The Arcadians'. Go listen at
I think someone familiar with 'The Honeysuckle and The Bee' will love the music of 'The Arcadians' (and would probably recognise it). The overture is especially familiar.
The version in my head is obviously an interpretation, ('Black & White Minstrels' perhaps?) with altered timing and script but I've no doubt it's the same song.

Mamyalynne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8ATXbh_Ip8