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:
Guy Lombardo [n°1 US; vocal: Carmen Lombardo; also in film The Green Mile (1999)]
Lewis James [top 20 US]
Willy Derby [as Germaine]
Harry James [in film Two Girls And A Sailor]
Mantovani [instrumental millionseller]
Gordon Jenkins [top 20 US]
Billy May [top 20 US]
Vaughn Monroe [top 30 US]
Paul Weston [top 10 US]
Bachelors [hit UK]
Jack Nitzsche [in film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)