JE CHERCHE APRÈS TITINE
Created on 21/05/2005Latest update on 07/02/2024
Artist: Gaby Montbreuse
Author: Leo Daniderff/Louis Mauban/Marcel Bertal
Year: 1917
Co-author Daniderff's girlfriend. Sometimes Henry Lemonnier is credited instead of Louis Mauban as co-author. Song about a runaway dog. American WW I soldiers introduced it back home. Bertal & Mauban wrote an answer song in '26: J'ai retrouvé Titine.
Covers:
- 1923:
- 1923:
Willy Derby [as Titine-O-Titine]
- 1924:
Marcelly [oldest recording for Pathé]
- 1924:
Jack Hylton [as Titina]
- 1925:
Vincent Lopez [idem]
- 1925:
Ben Bernie [idem]
- 1925:
Moulin Rouge Dance Orch. [idem]
- 1925:
Billy Murray [idem]
- 1936:
Charlie Chaplin [in film Modern Times with his own nonsense lyrics; unaware of the copyrights upon the melody]
- 1952:
- 1958:
- 1959:
- 1964:
Jacques Brel [his Titine elaborates on answer song J'ai retrouvé Titine]
- 1964:
- 1971:
- 1971:
Nino Rota [in Fellini film I Clowns]
- 2004:
J-Five feat. Charles Chaplin [as Modern Times n°1 Fr]
Modern Times was Chaplin's first talkie and so this was the first time the audience heard his voice. The nonsense words where his way to make his point: Chaplin films are better off without spoken word.
