Harry Connick Jr. on the 'Dream' of Recording the 'When Harry Met Sally' Soundtrack 35 Years Ago: 'I Was Just a Kid'

Thirty-five years ago, When Harry Met Sally... hit theaters, introducing not only the iconic opposites attract chemistry of Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan but also another Harry to the entertainment world.

Harry Connick Jr. was a 21-year-old singer and pianist with big dreams when, in 1989, director Rob Reiner asked him to record the film's soundtrack.

The When Harry Met Sally... soundtrack netted Connick his first Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance. He performed standards with an orchestra, arranged by composer Marc Shaiman, and the soundtrack went to No. 1 on Billboard's traditional jazz chart and also made the Billboard 200.

It was like a dream, Connick, now 56, tells Yahoo Entertainment.

While the New Orleans native had been performing for several years already, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to do some things I had never done before, he says.

In Find Me Falling, Connick plays an aging, heavily tattooed rock star at a personal crossroads.

Connick — who has also starred in films including Hope Floats (1998) with Sandra Bullock, Independence Day (1996) with Will Smith, and New in Town with Renée Zellweger (2009) — had no problem coming up with two songs for the film, including one that inspired the film's title.

Stelana Kliris, who wrote and directed the film, said, 'We need a song that John would have written and sung in his early 20s,' Connick says about his character.

So I wrote 'Girl on the Beach' as the song that made John an international rock star.

That had more melancholy and poetry, and would have been a more evolved version emotionally. So I wrote 'Find Me Falling,' and based on the lyrics I wrote, the [film's] title evolved.

Find Me Falling has the traditional elements of a romantic comedy — as Connick's character reconnects with an old flame — but this