BEYOND THE SEA AND NEVER AGAIN I WILL GO SAILING...

Today, The Stones have said goodbye to Hawaiian Islands and they have started a new trip destination Tierra del Fuego.

 

It has been a pleasure and a great experience visiting the Hawaiian Islands and they are sure they will return very soon because they are owners of a little part of them.

In that moment, the family is flying somewhere over the Ocean. Some of them are studying Second Conditional, other are watching Star Wars films or listening to music.

The Grandma is listening to Beyond the Sea, one of her favourite songs, one that talks about the sea and about travels without return.

Beyond the Sea is a 1945 contemporary pop romantic love song by Jack Lawrence, with music taken from the song La Mer by Charles Trenet.

Trenet had composed La Mer, which means the Sea, with French lyrics. It had some differences to the English-language version that Lawrence later wrote. Trenet's French version was a homage and ode to the changing moods of the sea, while Lawrence, by just adding one word Beyond to the title, gave him the start whereby he made the song into a love song.

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Beyond the Sea has been recorded by many artists, but Bobby Darin's version released in late 1959 is the best known by many, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 15 on the US R&B Chart, and No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart in early 1960.

Before Bobby Darin's, two recordings reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Benny Goodman's version charted in 1948, and was featured in the Cary Grant/Betsy Drake romantic comedy Every Girl Should Be Married. Roger Williams' recording reached No. 37 in 1955.

Deana Martin recorded Beyond the Sea in 2013. The song was released on her album, Destination Moon, in 2013 by Big Fish Records.

American R&B singer George Benson recorded an R&B version of the song under the title Beyond The Sea (La Mer). It was released on Warner Bros. This version entered the UK Singles Chart on 20 April 1985. It reached a peak position of no. 60 and remained on the chart for three weeks.

The first recording of Beyond the Sea was by Harry James and His Orchestra on December 22, 1947 and the first recording of La Mer was by French jazz musician Roland Gerbeau in December 1945.

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 It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once.
You live lots of times, if you know how.

Bobby Darin