Artist: Teodoro Cottrau
Author: Teodoro Cottrau
Year: 1850s
Neapolitan folk song, sometimes credited to Aniello Califano, while he was only 13 by the time our first cover appeared.
Covers:
Ida Morris [as My Nellie's Blue Eyes in English musical The Irish Minstrel; adapted by William J. Scanlan]
Charles Coborn [own parody as Two Lovely Black Eyes; in different languages, including Dutch in '24 (so it was he who first sang Twee ogen zo blauw); his first recording was in 1904]
Eduardo Das Neves [as O Minas Gerais on Edison; became the unofficial hymn of this Brazilian province]
Kees Pruis [as Twee Ogen Zo Blauw]
Sons Of The Pioneers [as Nellie's Blue Eyes]
Willy Derby [as Twee Ogen Zo Blauw]
Fréhel [at the beginning of La Java bleue]
Jo Leemans [als Twee Ogen Zo Blauw]
Herman's Hermits [as Two Lovely Black Eyes]
Sheila [as Le Mari de mama; hit Fr]
Drama [top 20 NL as Mary's Mama; produced by Peter Koelewijn]
Willeke Alberti [as Twee Ogen Zo Blauw]
André van Duin [idem]
Beppie Kraft [as Ich Bin Zoe Verleef]
Robert Long [in Dutch medley]
Helmut Lotti [as Don't Cry Little Child]
Not to be confused with Leslie Stuart's Two Eyes Of Blue from the The Silver Slipper operetta (1902) recorded by Albert Pearce, Harry MacDonough and Mina Hickman.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)