Artist: Court Symphony Orch.
Author: Albert William Ketèlbey
Label: Columbia
Year: 1922
Alias Prince's Band around Charles Prince. Ketèlbey (1875-1959) wrote a lot for movie theatre piano players. The more exotic the better: In A Chinese Temple Garden, In The Mystic Land Of Egypt, By The Blue Hawaiian Waters.
Covers:
Albert Ketèlbey [the author for Columbia]
Sammy Davis Jr. [hit UK]
Wilbur de Paris [later in Woody Allen film Oedipus Wrecks, part two of the film trilogy New York Stories]
Play Boys [Vince Taylor's French band; first version as rock instrumental]
Della Reese [as Take My Heart, crediting Hugo Peretti/George David Weiss/Luigi Creatore, the same team responsible for The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Tokens) and Can't Help Falling In Love (Elvis Presley)]
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics [as Persian Cat]
Oscar Harris [as Take My Heart]
Jacky James [as Take My Heart; hit Fr]
Serge Gainsbourg [inspiration for My lady heroine]
Jo Vally [as Neem M'n Hart]
S.H.E. [Taiwanese girl band in Persian Cat]
Song of all times.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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