Jimmy Kennedy's Birthday

Jimmy Kennedy
(20 July, 1902 - 6 April 6, 1984)
Jimmy Kennedy, an Irish sognwriter who was more popular in the United States than in his native Emerald Isle on the other side of the Atlantic. He wrote nearly 2000 songs in his career, among which were: Harbor Lights, April in Portugal, South of the Border, and My Prayer.

Harbor Lights was the background theme played in the 1940 film "The Long Voyage Home." Sammy Kaye recorded this sentimental hit in 1950. A decade later, The Platters immortalized it in the collective American songbook.

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-24-2006:
Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra (1950)
with Don Cornell and the Kaydets

Harbor Lights
Words and Music by Hugh Williams and Jimmy Kennedy

I saw the harbor lights
They only told me we were parting
The same old harbor lights that once brought you to me

I watched the harbor lights
How could I help if tears were starting
Goodbye to tender nights beside the silv'ry sea

I long to hold you near and kiss you just once more
But I was on the ship and you were on the shore

Now I know lonely nights
For all the while my heart is whispring
Some other harbor lights will steal your love from me

[Interlude]

I long to hold you near and kiss you just once more
But I was on the ship and you were on the shore

Now I know lonely nights
For all the while my heart is whisp'ring
Some other harbor lights will steal your love from me