Sweet Gingerbread Man is a song with music by Michel Legrand, and lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. It was recorded originally as a film song - for director Leonard Horn' s screen version of Robert T. Westbrook's The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart a film about young people in Greenwich Village.
The song for the film was performed by the Mike Curb Congregation who would go on to record other film songs, including I was Born In Love With You, another Legrand/Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman composition, this time for the 1970 film version of Wuthering Heights.
Other artists that have recorded the song include Sammy Davis Jr. and Jack Jones and Sarah Vaughan.
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