Songwriter: Bob Russell Carl Sigman
Producer: Lee Gillette
-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 18 in 1957
-previously charted in 1947 by Vaughn Monroe (#1)
-previously charted in 1948 by Buddy Clark (#5); Bing Crosby (#10); and Jimmy
-Dorsey (also #10)
-Words and Music by Bob Russell and Carl Sigman
Dance, ballerina, dance
And do your pirouette in rhythm with your achin' heart
Dance, ballerina, dance
You mustn't once forget a dancer has to dance the part
Whirl, ballerina, whirl
And just ignore the chair that's empty in the second row
This is your moment, girl
Although he's not out there applauding as you steal the show
Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn
And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance
Dance, dance!
Instrumental interlude
Whirl ballerina
Instrumental interlude
Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn
And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance
Dance
-peak Billboard position # 18 in 1957
-previously charted in 1947 by Vaughn Monroe (#1)
-previously charted in 1948 by Buddy Clark (#5); Bing Crosby (#10); and Jimmy
-Dorsey (also #10)
-Words and Music by Bob Russell and Carl Sigman
Dance, ballerina, dance
And do your pirouette in rhythm with your achin' heart
Dance, ballerina, dance
You mustn't once forget a dancer has to dance the part
Whirl, ballerina, whirl
And just ignore the chair that's empty in the second row
This is your moment, girl
Although he's not out there applauding as you steal the show
Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn
And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance
Dance, dance!
Instrumental interlude
Whirl ballerina
Instrumental interlude
Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn
And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance
Dance
more tracks from the album
The Nat King Cole Story
- The Christmas Song
- Non Dimenticar
- Walking My Baby Back Home
- Lush Life
- The Sand and the Sea
- I Am in Love
- Stardust
- Paradise
- Pretend
- Calypso Blues (feat. Stephen & Damian Marley)
- To the Ends of the Earth
- Orange Colored Sky
- Somewhere Along the Way
- Blue Gardenia
- Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
- Send for Me
- It’s Only a Paper Moon
- Night Lights
- Ay, Cosita Linda
- Nature Boy
- Unforgettable
- Smile
- St. Louis Blues
- Straighten Up and Fly Right
- (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
- Looking Back
- If I May
- Wild Is Love
- Too Young
- Answer Me My Love
- Sweet Lorraine
- A Blossom Fell
- Mona Lisa
- Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep
- Ballerina
- (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 [1961 Version]
From the album
- The Nat King Cole Story (1961)
Nat “King” Cole popular songs
- L-O-V-E
- Smile
- Unforgettable
- Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)
- Nature Boy
- The Christmas Song
- Mona Lisa
- Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
- When I Fall In Love
- Orange Colored Sky
- (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 [1946 Version]
- Stardust
- Too Young
- Straighten Up and Fly Right
- That’s All
- Let There Be Love
- On a Bicycle Built for Two
- Fascination
- The Very Thought of You
- Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer
- Autumn Leaves
- O Tannenbaum
- Pretend
- (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons