His Own Little Island
1961



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Highlights
  • Written for the 1961 Broadway production of Joel Spector presents Let It Ride! starring Goerge Gobel, Sam Levene and Barbara Nichols.
  • A Broadway musical based on the 1935 Broadway farce Three Men on a Horse by George Abbott.
  • The musical, with book by Abram S. Ginnes, opened in New York City at the Eugene O’Neill Theater on October 12, 1961, and ran for 68 performances.



Recording History
The Don Tweedy Orchestra and Chorus, Ovation Records, #956C 1012
John Douglas, Living Voices on Broadway, RCA Camden, #CAS 692
Michael Feinstein, Livingston & Evans Songbook, Concord Records, FCD-3101-2, 2002
George Gobel, The Original Cast Recording of Let It Ride!, RCA Victor Records, #LOC/LSO-1064
Jerry Lanning
Norman Luboff, RCA Victor, #47 7941
Bruce Scott
Alan Sherman, His Own Little Island, single, Warner Bros. Records, #5806
Lyrics
People need people 
But they move apart,
They hold back their feelings, 
Hold in their heart.
 
Ev’ryone live on his own little island,
Keeps to his island, oceans away.
Ev’ryone clings to his safe little center,
“Let no one enter,” he seems to say.
  
People need people 
To make tomorrow 
warm in pleasure,
Soft in sorrow!
 
Wish someone special would come to my island,
Comfort and warm me,
Sweeten my day,
But she’s [he’s] on her [his] island oceans away.
  
Ev’ryone live on his own little island,
Keeps to his island, oceans away.
Ev’ryone clings to his safe little center,
“Let no one enter,” he seems to say.
 
People need people 
To make tomorrow 
warm in pleasure,
Soft in sorrow!
 
Wish someone special would come to my island,
Comfort and warm me,
Sweeten my day,
But she’s [he’s] on her [his] island oceans away.
HIS OWN LITTLE ISLAND From the Broadway show Let It Ride, Livingston and Evans, Inc., 1961. Music and Words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Commercial Release)