Artist: Marlène Dietrich
Author: Victor Young/Jay Livingston/Ray Evans
Label: Paramount
Year: 1947
In Mitchell Leisen film Golden Earrings, where she's a spying gypsy girl during WW II. A second version is heard by Murvyn Vye as the leader of the gypsies. The tune in fact has Hungarian folk roots.
Covers:
Peggy Lee [n°2 US]
Hunters [guitar instrumental]
Ventures [idem]
Fantômes [idem]
Anneke Grönloh [as Gouden Ringen]
Frans Krassenburg [part of the band Golden Earrings until '67, when he was replaced by Barry Hay]
The Dutch band Golden Earring (Golden Earrings as they were called in the sixties) got their name from this song (in Peggy Lee's version).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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