O MEIN PAPA
Created on 06/03/2001Latest update on 13/10/2023
Artist: Lys Assia & Orkest Paul Burkhard
Author: Paul Burkhard/Jürg Amstein
Label: Musikvertrieb AG
Year: 1949
From the Swiss musical Der Schwarze Hecht, the prototype of Burkhard's circus operette Feuerwerk, later a film with Lili Palmer and Romy Schneider. Papa was both clown and trapeze king. In 1956 Lys Assia won the very first Eurovision Song Contest with Refrain (covered by La Esterella).
Covers:
- 1952:
Suzy Delair [as Oh Mon Papa]
- 1953:
- 1953:
Radio Revellers [as Oh! My Papa]
- 1953:
Eddie Fisher [as O My Papa]
- 1953:
- 1954:
Eddie Calvert [n°1 UK; "The man with the golden trumpet", instrumental recorded in Abbey Road]
- 1954:
- 1954:
- 1961:
- 1966:
- 1979:
Siouxsie & The Banshees [in medley with Mother]
- 1981:
- 1990:
Björk [with Trio Gudmundar Ingólfssonar as Pabbi Minn]
