Love in Bloom (song) nominated for Academy Awards
Background
The song was first recorded by Bing Crosby on July 5, 1934 with Irving Aaronson and his Commanders for Brunswick Records.  The same year, it was one of the nominees for the inaugural "Best Song" Academy Award when it lost out to "The Continental". Crosby re-recorded the song for his 1954 album Bing: A Musical Autobiography.
Other popular versions of the song in 1934 were by Paul Whiteman (vocal by Jack Fulton), Guy Lombardo and by Hal Kemp (vocal by Skinnay Ennis)."Love in Bloom" became the theme song of Jack Benny who was known for playing it off-key on his violin. Kitty Carlisle had hoped to adopt it as her theme song, but its swift comic association with Benny spoiled those plans.
The song was played throughout the Fleischer cartoon Time for Love, released theatrically in 1935, about a pair of swans who were lovers.The song has been recorded by other artists, including Al Bowlly with Lew Stone and his Orchestra in 1934,  Spike Jones and his City Slickers (1947), The Platters (for their 1959 album Remember When?), Erroll Garner (1961) and Mel Tormé for his 1994 album A Tribute to Bing Crosby. It is mentioned in Charles Trenet's song, "Boum!"
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