BARCAROLLE

Created on 10/12/2002
Latest update on 01/11/2023

Artist: Infantry Regiment #8
Author: Jacques Offenbach
Label: Victor
Year: 1902

Instrumental. Originally composed as overture (Elves' song) in opera Les Fées du Rhin (Die Rheinnixen) in 1864. Same melody recycled as aria Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour in Les Contes d'Hoffman, first staged (posthumously) in 1881 (libretto by Jules Barbier & Michel Carré). A barcarolle is a song set to the rhythm of Venetian gondoliers rowing.

Covers:

1906:

Sousa's Band

1906:

Friedrich Kark

1909:

Geraldine Farrar & Antonio Scotti

1914:

Maud Powell

1916:

John McCormack [with Fritz Kreisler on violin]

1933:

Comedian Harmonists [as Schöne Nacht, O Liebesnacht]

1937:

Tommy Dorsey [swing version]

1940:

Frankie Carle

1945:

King Cole Trio

1948:

Camille Howard

1949:

Andrews Sisters [as Lovely Night]

1957:

Edmundo Ros

1960:

Elvis Presley [in Tonight Is So Right For Love in film G.I. Blues; no kidding (see also: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald)]

1961:

Gerd Böttcher [as Adieu, leb wohl, goodbye]

1962:

Electric Johnny & The Skyrockets [instrumental Indo-rock]

1963:

Bob Benny [as Droom Van Mij]

1964:

Jerry Vale [as On And On]

1968:

Donald Peers [in Please Don't Go; n°3 UK]

1969:

Eddy Arnold [idem]

1975:

Elegasten

1979:

Jack Jersey [as Tonight Is Allright For Love]

1996:

Helmut Lotti [as Hold Me Tight]

2003:

Brave Combo

2020:

Bob Dylan [main theme inspired the melody line in I've Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You]

Copyright problems blocked the European release of his cover of Offenbach's Barcarolle on the G.I. Blues soundtrack. The European Tonight Is So Right For Love, as Tonight's All Right For Love is set to a different tune: that of Johann Strauss Jr.'s Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald. That's the version on Elvis box set Platinum - A Life In Music. Ferruccio Giannini's Barcarolle (Berliner - 1896) was his own composition.

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