"Three O’clock in the Morning" is a popular good-night waltz.
The lyrics were written by Theodora Morse (listed as Dorothy Terriss) to music written by Julian Robledo. The song was recorded in 1922 by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra. Charting eight weeks at number one (out of a 20-week chart sojourn in 1922), the song became Whiteman’s early signature-tune, and sold over three million copies overall in various versions.
Connie Francis recorded this song in her Greatest American Waltzes album in 1963. Bert Kaempfert revived the song without the waltz tempo in his 1965 album Three O’clock in the Morning.
The song was also referenced in the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Karl-Lennart wrote the Swedish lyrics. The Swedish title is "Sista valsen". Harmony Sisters, Cupol-orkestern Cond.: Jerry Högstedt recorded it in Stockholm on December 10, 1949. The song was released on the 78 rpm record Cupol 4331.
Famous quotes containing the word morning:
“It’s true love because
If he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them
and the next morning I couldn’t get out of bed,
He wouldn’t tell me he told me.”
—Judith Viorst (b. 1935)