, written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, has had many treatments over the decades. Mel Tormé made a smooth hit version in the 1940s, Elvis Presley's unusual treatment madeits way onto his first album in 1956 and The Marcels had a doo-wop hit with it in 1961, but ‘An American Werewolf in London’ was the first movie to associate this most romantic of songs with lycanthropy.

With its timelesschord progression and the bittersweet juxtap...