{"id":102,"date":"2011-08-03T02:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T07:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2011-08-03T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T04:23:40","slug":"where-is-this-lady-tell-me-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"“Where Is This Lady” \/ “Tell Me Tonight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Where Is This Lady”
\nJack Hylton And His Orchestra; Pat O’Malley, vocal
\n1932 (Decca F 3224 mx GB 5017)
\nJack Hylton And His Orchestra – Where Is This Lady]<\/p>\n

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“Tell Me Tonight”
\nJack Hylton And His Orchestra; George Barker, vocal
\n1932 (Decca F 3224 mx GB 5024)
\nJack Hylton And His Orchestra – Tell Me Tonight]<\/p>\n

I am very fond of German pop music from the Weimar era – and even from the dark period that followed.\u00a0\u00a0 Recently I have\u00a0 acquired a number of British recordings of German pop songs with English lyrics and will feature some of them in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n

“Where Is This Lady” was originally performed as “Es gibt noch M\u00e4rchen” by Marta Eggerth<\/a> in the 1932 German film Es war einmal ein Walzer<\/em> which featured a soundtrack by the famous operetta composer Franz Leh\u00e1r<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A British version of the film was released also in 1932 under the title Where Is This Lady<\/em> in which Marta Eggerth also starred.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> (sorry, no embedding is allowed on this clip) is a YouTube clip featuring Marta Eggerth singing the German version of the song (the video shown is from a different Eggerth film and not Es war einmal ein Walzer<\/em>)<\/p>\n

As of this writing Marta Eggerth is still alive at age 99.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is a remarkable video of her performing at age 82
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