jmjiloveyou - My Foolish Heart

jmjiloveyou
May 03, 2025 09:17am
<h1>My Foolish Heart (song)</h1><p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><br></p><h2>"<strong>My Foolish Heart</strong>" is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">popular</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">song</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_standard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">jazz standard</a> that was published in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_in_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1949</a>. In the UK, the song reached No. 1 in the chart based on sales of sheet music, staying at the top spot for 11 weeks in 1950.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Foolish_Heart_(song)#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[1]</sup></a></h2><h2><br></h2><h2><br></h2><h2>Overview</h2><p>The music was composed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Young" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Victor Young</a>, and the lyric was written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Washington" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ned Washington</a>. The song was introduced by the singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mears" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Martha Mears</a> in the 1949 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Foolish_Heart_(1949_film)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">film of the same name</a>. The song failed to escape critics' general laceration of the film. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Time</em></a> wrote in its review that "nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Foolish_Heart_(song)#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[2]</sup></a> Nevertheless, the song was nominated for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Song#1940s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Academy Award for Best Original Song</a> in 1949 but lost out to "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_It%27s_Cold_Outside" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Baby, It's Cold Outside</a>" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frank Loesser</a>.</p>