Clooney's first recordings, in May 1946, were for Columbia Records. She sang with Tony Pastor's big band. Clooney continued working with the Pastor band until 1949, making her last recording with the band in May of that year and her first as a solo artist a month later, still for Columbia.
She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit Come On-a My House written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian (better known as David Seville, the father figure of Alvin and the Chipmunks), which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" (a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati), "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House", although she had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002. She was the aunt of Academy Award winning actor George Clooney; mother-in-law of singer Debby Boone; and sister to former television personality Nick Clooney. She was the ex-wife of Jose Ferrer; mother of actor Miguel Ferrer
Clooney was diagnosed with lung cancer at the end of 2001. Around this time, she gave her last concert, in Hawaii, backed by the Honolulu Symphony Pops; her last song was "God Bless America".
They Can't Take That Away from Me
Rosemary Clooney Lyrics
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That will keep me loving you
And with your permission
May I list a few
The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No they can't take that away from me
We may never never meet again, on that bumpy road to love
But I'll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No they can't take that away from me
Rosemary Clooney’s classic song, “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” explores the idea of the things that make a relationship special and unique. The tune opens by acknowledging there are crazy things that will make the singer love their partner forever. The song speaks of the singer’s love for the unique things that their partner does, “the way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea, the memory of all that, no they can't take that away from me." The lyrics go on to give different examples of what makes the singer’s love unique, such as the way their partner smiles, sings off-key, and even the way they hold a knife while eating. The song concludes by saying the singer's love will always keep these memories even if they never meet again.
Line by Line Meaning
There are many many crazy things
Despite all the unusual things about you, I still love you
That will keep me loving you
There are things about you that make me love you more
And with your permission
If you don't mind, I'd like to share a few things that keep me loving you
May I list a few
Can I tell you about some things I love about you?
The way you wear your hat
I love the style in which you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
I love your unique way of sipping tea
The memory of all that
I cherish the memories of those little things you do
No they can't take that away from me
Nothing and no one can take those things I love about you from me
The way your smile just beams
Your smile lights up my day
The way you sing off key
Even when you sing off key, it still fills me with happiness
The way you haunt my dreams
I think about you even in my dreams
We may never never meet again, on that bumpy road to love
Our journey to love may be uncertain and we may not meet again
But I'll always, always keep the memory of
But I'll always remember
The way you hold your knife
I love the way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
I treasure the memory of dancing with you until the early hours of the morning
The way you changed my life
You have changed my life in a wonderful way
No they can't take that away from me
Nothing and no one can take those precious memories from me
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING, RALEIGH MUSIC PUBLISHING
Written by: IRA GERSHWIN, GEORGE GERSHWIN
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