Forgive Me
Forgive Me is a pop song written by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) and released in 1927.
background
The sentimental ballad Forgive Me by the songwriting team Ager-Yellen was presented in the United States in 1927 by Lillian Roth (Victor 20514), with an arrangement by Nat Shilkret . However, the song became popular primarily through the recording of Gene Austin for Victor Records in June 1927 (Victor, also with the Nat Shilkret Orchestra, with the B-side Someday, Sweetheart ) and became a number one hit in the US.
With over 500,000 copies of the 78 Forgive Me sold , Austin was the most successful singer in the United States in early 1928. In 1952, Eddie Fisher and the Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra (MGM) helped the song make a small comeback (# 7), with which Al Martino also hit the charts in October 1965 (Capitol, # 61). The first verse and chorus of the song are:
- What can I do or say to you
- I know exactly how you feel
- I've hurt you so, I'm wrong I know
- lease listen dear to my appeal.
- Forgive me, please forgive me
- I didn't mean to make you cry
- I love you, and I need you
- Do anything but don't say goodbye.
Later cover versions
Other musicians who covered the song from 1927 included Nat Shilkret (Victor, with singer Lewis James) in May 1927, Harry Raderman (OKeh), and Vaughn DeLeath with the Colonial Club Orchestra (Brunswick 3506),
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 35 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. from 1941 by Bob Huber , Louis Prima , Joe Swanson , Georgie Auld , Peggy Lee / Gordon Jenkins , Big John Greer , Ralph Flanagan , Bob Crosby , Slim Gaillard , Maxwell Davis , Milt Grayson , Alvin Alcorn and Paul Barnes / Percy Humphrey . Even Pat Boone (1956) and Sonny James (1957) coverten the song.