Blue Canary
Blue Canary is a song composed by Vincent Fiorino in 1953, known internationally in the 1950s and sung in different languages. Because Slava's Snowshow, who performed with the Russian clown Vyacheslav Ivanovich Polunin , made the Italian version of the song an integral part of their performances, it is still very popular in Russia today.
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The song tells of a female canary consisting of heartache is so sad that he's crying all day and tried in vain to sing a song.
Versions
The original English version of Dinah Shore was released as a single in 1953 .
The Italian version, also known as Triste Canarino, was recorded by Marisa Fiordaliso in 1954 and appeared both on her album Canzoni and on the album When in Rome, which was created in collaboration with her compatriot Carlo Buti . Also in the 1950s, Fiordaliso recorded the song again with her compatriot Enzo Amadori.
In 1958 a Spanish version of the song was released under the title Canario Triste on an EP by the Spanish singer Elder Barber.
In the 1950s, German versions of the song were also published, initially by the opera singer Renate Holm on the B-side of the single Im Schwarzwald singt ein Finkenpaar and in 1959 by Inga Dontsova.
There is also a Russian version by Yulia Siganschina and a Japanese version by Izumi Yukimura. The band Frank Chickens , which operates in England and consists of Japanese members, also recorded the song, but in English and in a synth-pop style that was previously unfamiliar to the song . Her version was released on single in 1985.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dinah Shore With Vic Schoen And His Orchestra - Blue Canary / Eternally in the discogs database
- ↑ Marisa Fiordaliso - Canzoni in the discogs database
- ↑ Marisa Fiordaliso And Carlo Buti - When In Rome in the discogs database
- ↑ Elder Barber - Canario Triste in the discogs database
- ↑ Renate Holm - In the Black Forest Singt Ein Finkenpaar / Blue Canary (Single, 1956) in the database of discogs
- ↑ Юлия Зиганшина: Печальная канарейка (Blue Canary) on YouTube
- ^ Frank Chickens - Blue Canary in the discogs database