Lover, Come Back to Me
"Lover, Come Back to Me" is a popular song composed by Sigmund Romberg with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II for the Broadway show The New Moon, where the song was introduced by Evelyn Herbert and Robert Halliday (as Robert Misson).The song was performed by Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore in New Moon, the 1930 film adaptation of The New Moon, and by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in the 1940 adaptation, also titled New Moon.Arranged and conducted by George Williams, the song was released as Barbra Streisand's second single in November 1962 as a double single with "My Coloring Book".[1] Produced by Mike Berniker, and recorded before Streisand's first album sessions, the single was sent to radio.In her first television special, My Name is Barbra, she performed a bitterly jubilant version of the song.