DU KANNST NICHT TREU SEIN

Created on 05/02/2007
Latest update on 06/10/2023

Artist: Gerhard Ebeler
Author: Gerhard Ebeler/Hans Otten
Label: Kristall
Year: 1935

With Orkester Fritz Domina. Rosenmontag hit from Cologne, Germany. Same duo wrote Die Liebe ist schuld daran, for Erwin Hartung (Telefunken - '38), covered in NL by Jan & Zwaan as Ik Zoek Een Meisje ('79).

Covers:

1935:

Erwin Hartung [with the Will Glahé orch.]

1935:

Erwin Hartung & Orchester Adalbert Lutter

1935:

Metropol Vokalisten

1935:

Vier Richters

1935:

Harry Collin [as Jij Kunt Niet Trouw Zijn]

1935:

Larry Ross

1936:

Geodel [as Jij Bent Te Mooi Om Trouw Te Zijn]

1940:

Max Mentor & Otto Stanzel

1948:

Ken Griffin [n°1 US as You Can't Be True, Dear; first as an instrumental (for Rondo), vocal version (also for Rondo) with Jerry Wayne; English lyrics: Hal Cotton; an earlier version (on Broadway) as You Can't Be True was bitterly fought out in court]

1948:

Frank Sinatra [idem]

1948:

Dick Haymes [idem, with The Song Spinners]

1948:

Vera Lynn [idem, top 5 UK, top 10 US]

1948:

Bob Scholte [as Kon Jy Maar Trouw Zyn]

1954:

Eddy Arnold [as You Can't Be True, Dear]

1959:

Pat & Shirley Boone [idem]

1963:

Connie Francis [idem]

1965:

Patti Page [idem]

1965:

Spelbrekers [as Je Kan Niet Trouw Zijn]

1987:

Jan & Zwaan [as Jij Kan Niet Trouw Zijn]

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