If it's true that Edens and/or Lehman expected Herman to write two new songs and got only one, the other being a trunk song cut from MAME, I can only imagine that they were unhappy about it. I remain surprised that Herman would not be honest about where "Love Is Only Love" came from. What would have happened if the song had been presented to the Academy as a new song and had received an Oscar nomination, and then it had come out that it wasn't a new song written expressly for the screen? That would have been very awkward...
And yes, Herman's memory about "Just Leave Everything to Me," as recounted in his autobiography and reproduced on the page to which you linked, do seem very confused. Among other things, the song does not happen "in the main titles," it happens before the main title sequence -- similar to the way the title song is used in the film of "The Sound of Music." |
