IN A PERSIAN MARKET

Created on 01/09/2003
Latest update on 02/02/2024

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:

1928:

Omar Hafez

1928:

Albert Ketèlbey [the author for Columbia]

1937:

Boston Pops Orch.

1939:

Larry Clinton

1940:

Xavier Cugat

1947:

Herbie Fields

1955:

Billy May

1956:

Sammy Davis Jr. [hit UK]

1958:

Wilbur de Paris [later in Woody Allen film Oedipus Wrecks, part two of the film trilogy New York Stories]

1960:

Sounds

1961:

Play Boys [Vince Taylor's French band; first version as rock instrumental]

1961:

Bobby Vinton

1962:

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)]

1967:

Tommy McCook & The Supersonics [as Persian Cat]

1970:

Ritchie Family

1970s:

Oscar Harris [as Take My Heart]

1972:

Ventures

1972:

Mr. Acker Bilk

1974:

Ekseption

1975:

John Fahey

1975:

Jacky James [as Take My Heart; hit Fr]

1977:

Serge Gainsbourg [inspiration for My lady heroine]

1989:

Jo Vally [as Neem M'n Hart]

2004:

S.H.E. [Taiwanese girl band in Persian Cat]

2007:

Taraf de Haïdouks

Song of all times.

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