Artist: Leila Negra
Author: Gerhard Winkler
Label: Austroton
Year: 1952
Swedish singer with children choir from Vienna. Written at the occasion of Winkler's mother's 75th birthday. The song moved from Scandinavia to America and only then to Winkler's home base Germany. See also: Auf Wiederseh'n.
Covers:
Frankie Laine with The Norman Luboff Choir [as Answer Me, Lord Above; English lyrics: Carl Sigman; n°1 UK while banned by the BBC]
David Whitfield [n°1 UK as Answer Me, My Love; the publisher de-spiritualised the lyrics]
Anne Shelton [idem]
Tony Van der Heyden [as Moeder Mijn]
Annie de Reuver & Heleentje van Capelle [as Meisje Klein]
Nat King Cole [as Answer Me My Love]
Wolfgang Sauer [hit GER as Glaube Mir with new lyrics by Fred Rauch]
Rudi Schuricke [idem]
Gene Pitney [as Answer Me, My Love]
Barbara Dickson [hit UK]
Will Tura [as Sta Me Bij]
Bryan Ferry [all as Answer Me]
Joni Mitchell [as Answer Me, My Love]
Swamp Dogg [idem]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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