Angel of Mine (song)
| Angel of Mine | |
|---|---|
| Frank Duval & Orchestra | |
| publication | 1980 |
| length | 4:12 |
| Genre (s) | Pop , ballad |
| Author (s) | Frank Duval , Kalina Maloyer |
| album | Angel of Mine |
Angel of Mine is a pop - ballad that of Frank Duval was sung and number one on the German , Austrian , Swiss and Dutch reached charts.
Emergence
The song was written by Duval with his wife Kalina Maloyer, a painter from Slovakia , and produced by Duval himself. Maloyer wrote numerous texts for him, Duval described her as his "muse and at the same time my most brutal critic". The title comes from the soundtrack for Derrick episode 77, A candle to the murderer , with Horst Frank , Sven-Eric Bechtolf and Sascha Hehn , which was broadcast on November 21, 1980.
Duval, known as a "sound magician", was discovered as a film musician for Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1965 when he was improvising on a grand piano in a studio. In 1977 he wrote the music for a crime scene crime thriller for the first time . He then worked successfully for many years with producer Helmut Ringelmann . Angel of Mine was Duval's second chart success after the song Angel of Death , with which he reached number one in Switzerland at the end of 1979.
Publication and reception
Angel of Mine was first published in 1980 on Telefunken (6.12949 AC). On the B-side was the song Magdalena . After the first broadcast of the Derrick episode on November 21, the song entered the German charts on December 8, 1980, where it stayed for a total of 26 weeks, five of which took place from February 2 to March 2, 1981 one. The title also became the number one hit in Austria (22 chart weeks), Switzerland (12 weeks) and the Netherlands (10 weeks), in the Flemish part of Belgium , he reached second place in the local charts (10 weeks), in Norway court seven (12 weeks).
On March 23, 1981 Frank Duval & Orchestra appeared in the ZDF program Disco of Ilja Richter on.
In 1987 came a re-release under the title Big Hits 1975-85 as a 7 ″ single with If I Could Fly Away on the B-side.
The song was certified in Germany with the golden record for more than 250,000 units. In the German annual charts in 1981 , the song reached number eight. The album of the same name reached the top position in the Austrian charts, in Germany it reached number 22.
Cover versions
A German-language version by Jürgen Marcus with a text by Gerhard Baier appeared under the title Engel der Nacht in January 1981. It reached number 31 in the German charts. Marcus appeared on February 9, 1981 with the song in the ZDF hit parade , but could not place in the top three. An organ version of the song was also released by Alfons in 1981.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c https://hitparade.ch/song/Frank-Duval-&-Orchestra/Angel-Of-Mine-697
- ↑ a b https://www.mz-web.de/kultur/verbindungen-frank-duval-der-stille-star-hinter--derrick--wird-65-8636828
- ↑ https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-697
- ↑ http://www.truckgeier.de/disco.htm
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT5J_aGLQEo
- ↑ https://www.musikindustrie.de/markt-bestseller/gold-/platin-und-diamond-auszeichnung/datenbank/
- ↑ https://hitparade.ch/song/Juergen-Marcus/Engel-der-Nacht-160220
- ↑ https://hitparade.ch/song/Alfons/Angel-Of-Mine-337528