Eternally (Charlie Chaplin song)

"Eternally" is a song with music by Charlie Chaplin, and words by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner.

[1] The music was initially composed for Chaplin's film Limelight (1952) and titled "Terry's Theme"; the film won an Oscar for "Best Original Dramatic Score" at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973.

As "Eternally", it was recorded by Jimmy Young (UK number 8, 1953),[4] Vic Damone (US number 12, 1953),[5] Li Xianglan (in Chinese and Japanese), Petula Clark (These Are My Songs, 1967), Bing Crosby (for his radio show),[6] Dinah Shore,[7] Steve Lawrence,[8] Michel Legrand, Jerry Vale,[9] Sarah Vaughan,[10] Roger Whittaker, Engelbert Humperdinck (1973[11] and 2007), Victor Wood (1971), Amália Rodrigues, John Serry Sr. (Squeeze Play, 1956),[12][13] among many others.

Brazilian singer José Augusto recorded Portuguese and Spanish language versions of the song.

The Spanish version, titled "Candilejas", topped the charts in Mexico in 1974,[14] and was later performed by Roberto Carlos, Julio Iglesias and Plácido Domingo.