PASSION FLOWER
Created on 16/12/2008Latest update on 18/01/2025
Artist: Fraternity Brothers
Author: Pat Murtagh/Bunny Botkin/Gilbert Garfield
Label: Verve
Year: 1957
White doowop novelty mixing Beethoven's Für Elise melody (see: Für Therese) with a tango rhythm. B-side of A Nobody Like Me and clearly more popular in France and Japan. These Brothers were coauthors Gilbert Garfield and Bunny Botkin, ex leadsinger of The Cheers (see: Black Denim Trousers). They also cut a Spanish version as Flor Pasionaria.
Covers:
- 1958:
- 1959:
Dalida [as Tout L'Amour; hit Fr]
- 1959:
Dario Moreno [idem]
- 1959:
Georges Gomand [idem]
- 1959:
Danyel Gérard [idem]
- 1959:
Line Renaud [as Passion Passion; rip-off of Tout L'Amour according to the writers]
- 1959:
Caterina Valente & Silvio Francesco [as Rote Rosen werden blüh'n]
- 1959:
Peanuts [n°1 Japan as Jounetsu No Hana]
- 1973:
Anne Sylvestre [as Lettre ouverte à Elise]
- 1977:
Veronica Unlimited [tune of Ferme la Porte]
- 1988:
Au Bonheur Des Dames [as Tout L'Amour]
- 2000:
Whitney Houston & Deborah Cox [as Same Script, Different Cast]
- 2003:
Philippe Corti [as Un Dur, un vrai, un tatoué]
- 2004:
Double You [as Jounetsu No Hana]
Not to be confused with Billy Strayhorn's Passion Flower for Duke Ellington. In 1948 Armand Mestral released Aux derniers rayons de soleil d'or on the same melody (La Voix de son Maître) with Jacques Larue lyrics.
