CHARMAINE

Created on 30/01/2003
Latest update on 02/08/2023

Artist: Dolores Valesco
Author: Ernö Rapée/Lew Pollack
Label: Gennett
Year: 1927

Written shortly before Ernö's departure from Hungary to the US. Used as theme of silent movie What Price Glory? (1926) starring Dolores del Rio as Charmaine. Sheet music millionseller. Rapée and Pollack also cowrote Diane.

Covers:

1927:

Guy Lombardo [n°1 US; vocal: Carmen Lombardo; also in film The Green Mile (1999)]

1927:

Lewis James [top 20 US]

1928:

Willy Derby [as Germaine]

1934:

Jimmie Lunceford

1944:

Harry James [in film Two Girls And A Sailor]

1947:

Julia Lee

1951:

Mantovani [instrumental millionseller]

1951:

Gordon Jenkins [top 20 US]

1952:

Tino Rossi

1952:

Billy May [top 20 US]

1952:

Vaughn Monroe [top 30 US]

1952:

Paul Weston [top 10 US]

1956:

Four Freshmen

1958:

Jim Reeves

1962:

Frank Sinatra

1963:

Bachelors [hit UK]

1964:

Erroll Garner

1964:

Herman van Keeken

1965:

Lou Rawls

1975:

Jack Nitzsche [in film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest]

2008:

André Rieu

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