I Still See Elisa

Album: Paint Your Wagon soundtrack (1969)
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  • Like most of the other songs in Paint Your Wagon, "I Still See Elisa" was written by the regular team of composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. The second song in the 1969 film (the Broadway production opened in 1951), it is performed by a nostalgic Clint Eastwood as Pardner.

    Perhaps nostalgic is not the right word, for shortly Pardner admits to Ben Rumson that there is no Elisa, he just saw the name somewhere, liked it, and wrote the song around it. And yes, Eastwood did actually perform it. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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  • Lalah from Alaska"They Call the Wind Mariah" was also in the movie "paint Your Wagon". Clint Eastwood proves that about 80% of humanity can carry a tune.
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