About this episode

Nick and Simon discuss the song 'But Beautiful' and its background.

in another one of our tunes we love Nick and Simon discus But Beautiful  But Beautiful " is a popular song with music written by Jimmy Van Heusen , the lyrics by Johnny Burke . The song was published in 1947. One of five songs written by Burke and Van Heusen featured in the Paramount Pictures movie Road to Rio (1947)

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Hosts: Simon Whiteside, Nicholas Tomalin

Topics covered

• music discussion
• song analysis
• classic songs
• film music
• songwriters

Keywords

• But Beautiful
• Jimmy Van Heusen
• Johnny Burke
• 1947
• Road to Rio
• music
• song analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: But Beautiful, Road to Rio

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