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I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy

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1317: 125:'s house fine-tuning the script. Hammerstein wrote this song to express the exuberance of Nellie's character at this point in the show, and it carried over to Mary Martin's performance of it. Mary Martin was so thrilled that when she sang it on stage, she performed cartwheels on the stage at every turn of "I'm in love." 114:
In the show, Nellie sings this song after being convinced that despite the fact that Emile killed a man accidentally in a fight, there is good in him. And so she is elated to be in love with him.
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In 1953, Mary Martin sang the song before a live television audience of 60 million persons (broadcast live over the NBC and CBS networks) as part of
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during this song. Ten years later, once she sees Josh Chan, the chorus of "I'm in love" repeats in her head when she sees him.
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The chorus of the song is performed a cappella by Megan Mullally's character Karen Walker on the sitcom
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On September 22, 1952, Diana Miller with Varietéorkestern Cond.: Åke Jelving, recorded the song in
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In 1979's "Trust Me", the second episode of television series
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The Sound of Music: Music from the NBC Television Event
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season 6, episode 23 ("I Do, Oh, No, You Di-in't").
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Index

Song
Composer(s)
Richard Rodgers
Lyricist(s)
Oscar Hammerstein II
show tune
1949
Rodgers and Hammerstein
musical
South Pacific
Mary Martin
Broadway
Mitzi Gaynor
film adaptation
Mary Martin
Joshua Logan
Margaret Whiting
Fran Warren
Dinah Shore
Stockholm
78 rpm record
His Master's Voice
Doris Day
Show Time
Keely Smith
Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre
Blossom Dearie
Nellie McKay
Normal as Blueberry Pie – A Tribute to Doris Day
The Ford 50th Anniversary Show

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