According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, British cabaret singer Jean Ross, with whom Maschwitz had a youthful liaison, was the muse for the song.It’s an early afternoon. Maschwitz wrote the song under his pen name, Holt Marvell, at the behest of Joan Carr for a late-evening revue broadcast by the BBC. It is one of a group of 'Mayfair songs', like 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square'. Harry Link, an American, sometimes appears as a co-writer his input was probably limited to an alternative 'middle eight' (bridge) which many performers prefer.

'These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)' is a standard with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz, writing under the pseudonym Holt Marvell, and music by Jack Strachey, both Englishmen. Info: Very popular versions include: Nat King Cole (on Just One of Those Things in 1957), Bing Crosby (recorded December 15, 1944), Billie Holiday, (with Teddy Wilson in 1936) Writer: Eric Maschwitz (Holt Marvell), Jack Strachey, ( Harry Link sometimes credited) Oh how the ghost of you clings, these foolish things Two lovers, on the street, who walk like dreamers, The scent of smouldering leaves, the wail of steamers, How strange, how sweet, to find you still, The song Crosby sings, these foolish things The waiters whistling as the last bar closes, The smile of Garbo, when the scent of roses, And candle-light on little corner tables, First daffodils, and long ex-cited cables, Silk stockings thrown aside, dance invi-tations, The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations, The beauty of spring, these foolish things The 'Ile de France' with all the girls around it, The park at evening when the bell has soun-ded, Wild straw-berries only seven francs a kilo, Gardenia perfume lingering on a pillow, Oh, how the ghost of you clings, these foolish things A telephone that rings, and who's to an-swer? The winds of March that make my heart a dancer, When you did that to me, I, knew somehow, A fairgrounds painted swings, these foolish things Those stumbling words that told you, what my heart meant,

A tinkling piano in the next a-partment, And still my heart has wings, these foolish things A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces, Scroll Stop Speed Chords: Hide Show Top Bottom Right

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