Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) also recorded the song with its original English lyrics, and a German-language version, "Sag, weißt du denn, was Liebe ist". Here is a sample of the song's lyrics: In the film, charged romantic moments occur on a high grassy, windswept hill in Hong Kong. In the bittersweet final scene on the hilltop, the song (heard on the sound track) recalls the earlier encounters: The theme song won the Academy Award for Best Song, and the recording by The Four Aces went to #1 on the charts for three weeks in 1955, shortly before rock and roll became a dominant force
Love Is the Thing Time I Feel the Spirit" (1959), and "Where Did Everyone Go?" (1963). Originally released by Capitol Records, the album has been re-issued by various companies in alternate forms. A 1996 re-release on 24-kt gold foil by the Digital Compact Classics label included three bonus tracks, the same tracks incorporated in the re-titled 1991 CD "Love Is the Thing (And More)". In 2007, The Collectors' Choice label reissued the album in conjunction with the final Cole/Jenkins collaboration on a single disc entitled "Love Is the Thing/Where Did Everyone Go?" In 2010 the audiophile Analogue Productions label issued a hybrid SACD of