"I'm in the Mood for Love" is a popular song. The music was written by Jimmy McHugh, the lyrics by Dorothy Fields. The song was published in 1935. It was introduced by Frances Langford in the movie Every Night at Eight released that year. The song was featured in the 1936 Our Gang (Little Rascals) short, The Pinch Singer, sung by Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, and in the 1936 film Palm Springs. It is often known to be Switzer's signature song. James Moody's saxophone solo on a 1952 recording of this song inspired the song "Moody's Mood for Love". Hip hop artist Prince Paul sampled the song as the basis for the track "Mood for Love" on his album A Prince Among Thieves (1999), with Don Newkirk singing its original lyrics. The song's title inspired the English title of Wong Kar Wai's movie In the Mood for Love.
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Famous quotes containing the words mood for love, mood and/or love:
“Funny, but when you’re near me I’m in the mood for love.”
—Dorothy Fields (1904–1974)
“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,
And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time,
Not, like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice
As full of labor as a wise man’s art.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)