Angela Mia
The tune was written as the theme song for an early sound film in 1928. It was recorded as My Angel by The Paul Whiteman Orchestra around the same time, and it’s also played and sung in a Vitaphone short by The Capitolians featuring several of the instrumental stars of the 1920s. Then it had a revival in the 1950s when Louis Armstrong made his fine version for an album appropriately called “Louis and the Angels”.
I do an instrumental version, but here are the lyrics:
Days were long and nights were endless
Overhead the skies were gray
Seemed all wrong to be so friendless
And then one day you came my way.
Angela Mia
You are my Angel dear,
The heavens sent you down to me from up above.
Angela Mia,
You are my guiding star
A sweet Madonna that I honor and I love
You're like the sunshine in all it's splendor
And I surrender each time you smile
Angela Mia,
My pray'rs are answered now
And I am thankful for Angela Mia