Love is the sweetest thing,
What else on earth could ever bring
Such happiness to everything
cs love's old story.

Love is the strangest thing,
No song of birds upon the wing
Shall in our hearts more sweetly sing
Than love's old story.

Whatever heart may desire,
Whatever fate may send,
This is the tale that never will tire,
This is the song without end.

Love is the greatest thing,
The oldest yet the latest thing.
I only hope that fate can bring
Love's story to you.

Whether you've gone after worldly success,
Making your place in the sun;
Whether your income's a million or less,
Just when you think all the prizes you've won,
You'll wake to learn after all's said and done...

Love is the sweetest thing,
What else on earth could ever bring
Such happiness to everything
cs love's old story.

Love is the strangest thing,
No song of birds upon the wing
Shall in our hearts more sweetly sing
Than love's old story.

Whatever heart may desire,
Whatever fate may send,
This is the tale that never will tire,
This is the song without end.

Love is the greatest thing,
The oldest yet the latest thing.
I only hope that fate can bring
Love's story to you.


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Love Is the Sweetest Thing Lyrics as written by Ray Noble

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    [Wikipedia] Ray Noble was a British bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. Noble was born in Brighton, England on December 17, 1903 and died in London on April 3, 1978. Noble studied music at Cambridge and became leader of the HMV Records studio band in 1929. The band, known as the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day. The most popular vocalist with Noble's studio band was Al Bowlly.

    The Bowlly/Noble recordings achieved popularity in the United States. Union bans prevented Noble from taking British musicians to America so he arranged for Glenn Miller to recruit American musicians. The American Ray Noble band had a successful run at the Rainbow Room in New York City with Bowlly as principal vocalist.

    Bowlly returned to England but Noble continued to lead bands in America, moving into an acting career portraying a stereotypical upper-class English idiot. His last major successes as a bandleader came with Buddy Clark in the late 1940s.

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