Some Enchanted Evening is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. Composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, it appears in the first act as a solo for Emile de Becque, a middle-aged French planter on a South Pacific island during World War II. In the song he recalls meeting Nellie Forbush and sensing true love, imagining hearing her laughter and dreaming of her call, and he urges that when you find your true love you must fly to her side and make her your own. The piece is widely regarded as one of the show's signature moments and has been described as the greatest song ever written for a musical by some critics. Ezio Pinza introduced the number on the original Broadway cast recording in 1949; Perry Como had a number one single with it that same year, and Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra also recorded popular versions. In the 1958 film adaptation of South Pacific the song is sung by Giorgio Tozzi for the film soundtrack. The tune belongs to the Broadway show tune / musical theater genre and continues to be covered by many artists across decades.
