Blue Pacific Blues
| Blue Pacific Blues | |
|---|---|
| Jo Ann Greer | |
| publication | 1953 |
| Genre (s) | Film music , blues song |
| text | Ned Washington |
| music | Lester Lee |
| Label | Acrobat Music |
| Award (s) |
Oscar nomination 1954 in the category "Best Song" |
| Cover versions | |
| Lale Andersen | |
| Caterina Valente | |
| Jerry Adler | |
Blue Pacific Blues (also Sadie Thompson's Song ) is a song from the soundtrack of the 1953 film Purgatory (Miss Sadie Thompson) , composed by Lester Lee , and lyrics by Ned Washington . It is sung in the film by Rita Hayworth with the voice of Jo Ann Greer .
Text and covers
"The rain sings its song night after night, a song that makes us lonely and tired ..." it says at the beginning of the German translation, in the original I'm gettin 'Blue Pacific Blues. The feelin 'you get from real bad news. I wanna hear bells, I when see trains. I get in this mood whenever it rains… A woman thinks of the man on a rainy night, whom she simply cannot forget, it is oppressively humid and she has the blues. She lies awake and smokes and wishes that tomorrow would come and her fear will evaporate ...
In 1953 Leo Diamond released a cover version with the Van Alexander orchestra at Ambassador . Also Caterina Valente coverte the song in a German version, but the producers were waving the mid-1950s from initially, although Kurt Edelhagen pointed out that the song in America have had outstanding success; This version was only released decades later on her album "Caterina Valente & Orchester Kurt Edelhagen", after Valente had made a career as a hit rather than a jazz singer due to the producer's decision. The Marnhy Trio also covered the song at the time. Lale Andersen sang the song in 1964 on her album "Portrait in Music" and Jerry Adler played it in 1962 on his album "A Handful of Blues". The song was also sung by Candis Alek, in 1962 by Don Cherry , in 1965 by Damita Jo and played by Richard Hayman and his orchestra.
Award / nomination
In 1954 , Blue Pacific Blues was nominated for an Oscar in the "Best Song" category. The award went to Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster for their song Secret Love from the comedic western Heavy Colts in Tender Hands (Calamity Jane) .
Web links
- Blue Pacific Blues , German translation of the lyrics at lale-andersen.de
- Sadie Thompson's Song - Blue Pacific Blues Jo Anne Greer, album cover "Hollywood's Secret Singing Star"
Individual evidence
- ^ Blue Pacific Blues , sung by Rita Hayworth resp. Jo Ann Greer
- ↑ Blue Pacific Blues Cover Rita Hayworth
- ↑ Soundtrack Miss Sadie Thompson - Blue Pacific Blues Original English text for the song
- ↑ Dieter Bartetzko The world star is eighty: All of Paris is dreaming Caterina Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 14, 2011
- ↑ Blue Pacific Blues , sung by Caterina Valente, accompanied by the Kurt Edelhagen orchestra
- ↑ Blue Pacific Blues record cover at discogs.com
- ↑ Blue Pacific Blues Portrait in Music at discogs.com
- ↑ Blue Pacific Blues , sung by Lale Andersen
- ^ Republished Blue Pacific Blues , played by Jerry Adler
- ^ Blue Pacific Blues and by Candis Alek
- ↑ Album Don Cherry & Strings (Discogs)
- ↑ Album Go Go With Damita Jo (Discogs)
- ↑ Miss Sadie Thompson - Blue Pacific Blues , played by Richard Hayman and His Orchestra