Beyond the Sea

With music by Charles Trenet and lyrics by Jack Lawrence, Beyond the Sea is a 1946 pop-song. The music was taken from Trenet's song La Mer, a French ode to the sea. The English lyrics for Beyond the Sea concern a lost love.

Beyond the Sea has been recorded by many artists, including Bobby Darin, Benny Goodman, Mantovani, Roger Williams, and Gisele MacKenzie. Darin's 1959 version is probably the best known, reaching number-six on the Billboard Hot 100. Both Goodman's 1948 version and Williams' 1955 version reached the top forty.

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