Heart and Soul

DESCRIPTION: Pop song. "Heart and soul, I fell in love with you...." If you don't know the words, you know the tune
AUTHOR: Words: Frank Loesser / Music: Hoagie Carmichael
EARLIEST DATE: 1938 (Copyright)
KEYWORDS: love
FOUND IN:
Roud #25671
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Boomdeada" (melody)
NOTES [90 words]: I strongly doubt that the lyrics of this are traditional, but it has a Roud number, so I'm including it.
The tune, on the other hand, has become traditional, being used for "Boomdeada."
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 435, estimates that this was the second most popular song in America in November 1938 (#1 for the year being Larry Clinton's "My Reverie," based on a theme by Debussy), and also hit the charts in 1952 and 1961. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.5
File: RcHeaSou

Go to the Ballad Search form
Go to the Ballad Index Song List

Go to the Ballad Index Instructions
Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography