"I'll Take Romance" is a 1937 popular song with music by Ben Oakland and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was written for the Columbia Pictures film of the same name, released on 17 November 1937 and directed by Edward H. Griffith, with music supervised by Morris Stoloff. In the film, an opera manager played by Melvyn Douglas tries to persuade a contract-breaking soprano, Elsa Terry, played by the star Grace Moore, to perform in Buenos Aires, and Moore sings the song herself. The song is in the key of F. It should not be confused with the MGM film Rosalie (1937), which does not include it.
It is a romantic ballad that became a standard. The original recording was made by Grace Moore in 1937. Later versions include recordings by Johnny Long, Rudy Vallée, June Christy (1954), Jeri Southern, Eydie Gormé, Robert Goulet, Matt Monro and Susannah McCorkle, and many jazz instrumentalists have recorded it.
