Don't go breaking my heart
| Don't go breaking my heart | |
|---|---|
| Elton John and Kiki Dee | |
| publication | June 21, 1976 |
| length | 4:28 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| text | Carte Blanche (Bernie Taupin) |
| music | Ann Orson (Elton John) |
| album | Released as a single only |
Do not Go Breaking My Heart (English for. " Break me not my heart ") is a duet by Elton John and Kiki Dee from 1976. It was founded by Elton John and Bernie Taupin under the pseudonyms "Ann Orson" and “Carte Blanche” composed.
The author's name for the composition, "Ann Orson and Carte Blanche", is an English pun and typical of John's humor. If the pronunciation is only slightly sloppy, it becomes “an horse and cart, blanche”. "Carte blanche" stands for "blank power of attorney", "cart" also means "cart", "blanche" in French means "empty". In this respect, the song was composed either by a horse with an empty cart or by a horse with blank authority.
background
John was finally free of any contractual obligations with his previous record company Dick James Music. Amazingly, the first thing he did is exactly what he used to say was out of the question - recording a track for his own record label The Rocket Record Company.
It was not uncommon for John and Taupin to work together over great distances. Once John tinkled his electric piano and then had the draft of the melody for Don't Go Breakin 'My Heart. He called Taupin, who was in Barbados, and asked him to write a text for a duet.
Though duets weren't exactly fashionable, he had one in mind in the Motown style of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. And he wanted to sing it with Kiki Dee, who had been under contract with his record company for years and in whose artistic development he had invested a lot of time himself. In the time after the song was published, there was the usual speculation about the possible relationship between the two artists.
Like many of Elton John's singles from the 1970s, the song was never included on any of his original albums. However, it appeared on the original version of Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II from 1977. It was later included on the albums Elton John's Greatest Hits 1976–1986 and Elton John's Greatest Hits 1970–2002 .
In 1985, Elton John sang the song with Kiki Dee in front of an audience at Wembley Stadium during his appearance on Live Aid . Almost twenty years after it was first published, Elton John re-recorded and re- edited the song with RuPaul . In 1997 Elton John performed the song with the Spice Girls on his show An Audience with ... on.
The song can also be heard in the film Ella - Verflixt & zauberhaft ( Ella Enchanted , 2004) and in the Disney animation film Heaven and Chicken ( Chicken Little , 2005). The song is also sung by Lilly and Marshall in the series How I Met Your Mother in a karaoke bar, by JD and Kim ( Scrubs ) in a daydream by JD, and in the series Unforgettable by Det. Roe Sanders and Tanya Sitkowsky as karaoke. The song is also sung in the television series The Big Bang Theory , Modern Family and Glee . In Full House it is sung by Michelle and her boyfriend after Stephanie performed with her band Girl-Talk.
review
The critics agreed that this song was going to be a flop. Contrary to this assessment, it became the first number 1 hit for John in the UK singles chart. The next British number 1 hit he had only 14 years later.
B side
“Snow Queen” is a recording from John's “ Blue Moves ” project.
While attending a Paul McCartney concert together in 1990, John apologized to Cher for the words used in the song, but it was not his fault. Although the text was Bernie Taupin's way of expressing compliments, it painted a rather ugly picture of Cher. John and Cher's relationship was friendly, he was also a guest on their 1975 debut show.
“Elton then explained Bernie had written this terrible lyric about me. … I've never heard it, but I know it's real nasty ”(Eng:“ Elton then explained to me that Bernie had written this terrible lyrics about me… I never heard it, but I know that it is really nasty “) Said Cher.
occupation
- Elton John - vocals, piano
- Kiki Dee - vocals
- Davey Johnstone - electric guitar
- Kenny Passarelli - bass guitar
- Roger Pope - drums
- James Newton Howard - orchestration , electric piano
production
- Gus Dudgeon - producer
Charts
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Awards
| organization | status | date |
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| RIAA - USA | gold | August 1976 |
| British Phonographic Industry (BPI) - UK | gold | August 1976 |
| Music Canada - Canada | gold | August 1976 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ allmusic.com
- ^ Philip Norman: Elton John. Harmony Books, New York 1992, ISBN 0-517-58762-9 , p. 320
- ^ Philip Norman: Elton John. 1991, p. 320
- ^ Claude Bernardin, Tom Stanton: Rocket Man: Elton John from AZ . Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut / London 1996, ISBN 0-275-95698-9 , pp. 17 .
- ↑ Chart position Germany ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chart position Austria
- ↑ Chart position Switzerland
- ↑ Chart position Great Britain
- ↑ USA
- ^ RIAA - Gold & Platinum Searchable Database
- ↑ https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
