Day 12 – Favorite Song – 30 Day Charlie Chaplin Challenge

“Smile” is a given, so I won’t name that.

There are a number of songs that are wonderful, like “Eternally” (theme song to Limelight), or A Paris Boulevard from Monsieur Verdoux, or “Georgia/The Dance Hall” from The Gold Rush. Those are closely behind my favorite

Mandolin Serenade. I just adore it. Many of his songs just melt my heart, but this one the most.

Below is the original:

Below is my favorite version of it, even more than the original (it seems seems like a song called Mandolin Serenade should have a mandolin more in the spotlight)

And here he is conducting it. I guess “conducting” is the best word for what he’s doing, haha