Goodbye for Now
First release by Jean-Pierre Rampal and Claude Bolling (December 4, 1981)
- Lyrics written by
- Stephen Sondheim
- Original music written by
- Stephen Sondheim
- Language
- English
- Adapted from
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Goodbye for Now written by Stephen Sondheim
- Comments
- Sondheim wrote the melody Goodbye for Now as a theme for Reds, Warren Beatty’s movie about the Russian Revolution. Some sources report that Beatty wanted co-star Diane Keaton to release the song as a single, so Sondheim added words, too. However, the vocal version was not released at the time. Sondheim said that the song was “an instrumental, not a vocal, and its tessitura (the preeminent areas of its range) was very wide; Diane couldn’t handle it comfortably – nor could many singers, without noticeably awkward shifts from head voice to chest voice.”
- Published by
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FAMOUS MUSIC CORP
GEMA
- Licensing
- Request a synchronization license
