Deanna Durbin (vocal) with Charles Previn and His Orchestra. Recorded in Los Angeles, California on December 12th 1938. Durbin had just become 17 years old on December 4th when she recorded it.
The song was written by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Harold Adamson (lyrics) for the 1938 Universal Musical Picture "That Certain Age", starring Deanna Durbin (who sang it in the movie) and Melvyn Douglas. The song was Oscar-nominated "Best Song" in 1939 and became very popular, recorded also by Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright, Gene Krupa, Larry Clinton, Les Brown, Jan Savitt, Geraldo with Al Bowlly or Jane Froman.
"Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 - April 17, 2013), known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born American actress and singer, who moved to the U.S. with her family in infancy. She appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s. With the technical skill and vocal range of a legitimate lyric soprano, she performed many styles, especially operatic arias and semi-classical pieces, which is today called classical crossover.
Durbin was a child actress who made her first film appearance with Judy Garland in Every Sunday (1936), and subsequently signed a contract with Universal Studios. She achieved success as the ideal teenaged daughter in films such as Three Smart Girls (1936), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), and It Started with Eve (1941). Her work was credited with saving the studio from bankruptcy, and led to Durbin being awarded the Academy Juvenile Award in 1938.
As she matured, Durbin grew dissatisfied with the girl-next-door roles assigned to her and attempted to move into sophisticated non-musical roles with film noir Christmas Holiday (1944) and the whodunit Lady on a Train (1945). These films, produced by frequent collaborator and second husband Felix Jackson, were not as successful; she continued in musical roles until her retirement. Upon her retirement and divorce from Jackson in 1949, Durbin married producer-director Charles Henri David and moved to a farmhouse near Paris. She withdrew from public life, granting only one interview on her career in 1983."
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The fotos you see in the video are shot around 1938 (foto 1) and 1940 (foto 2).
This Brunswick record is played on an Electrola table top Gramophone, model 130 from ca. 1930!
And here's the song text:
My own
Let me call you my own
Let me make you a part
of the song in my heart
Alone Im just living in vain
everything that I do
is depending in you
Show me a sign of your longing for me
Say you are mine
and forever that you will be...
My own let me call you my own
every dream I have known
has been built of but one desire just to call you my own
Show me a sign of your longing for me
say you are mine and forever that you will be
My own every dream I have known
has been built of but one desire
just to call you my own
20 авг 2024