I kiss your hand, madame (song)

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The tenor Richard Tauber received a soundtrack for I kiss your hand, Madame in 1929 in the film of the same name

I kiss your hand, Madame is a Tango song , which Ralph Erwin wrote. The text is by Fritz Rotter . It became known through the interpretation of Richard Tauber . In the English-speaking world, the song became popular as I Kiss Your Hand, Madame with a new text by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young around 1930.

Versions

The first verse of Fritz Rotter's song reads:

I kiss your hand, Madame, and dream that it was your mouth.
I am so gallant, Madame, and there is a reason for that.
I will only have your trust, Madame, and your sympathy,
if you only count on me, Madame.
Yes, then you will look, Madame
I'll kiss
your red mouth instead of your hand, Madame .

The chanson was used in one of the last silent films from the time of the transition to the sound film , I kiss your hand, Madame (1929), in which Richard Tauber performed it as a singing double for Harry Liedtke .

This vocal interlude was later parodied by Dickie Fellowes-Gordon and Noël Coward :

I will not kiss your hand madame,
You're such a bloody bore
For years and years I've planned madame
To sock you in the jaw
If you're feeling blue, Madame

And you don't know what to do, Madame
Or to make the moments pass Madame
Then take my
hob -nailed boot Madame And shove it up your ass.

In America the song became popular with the inclusion of Rudy Vallée . In the 1930s he was the signature tune of Lannie Ross in Campbell Soup radio show .

The film title I am an elephant, Madame (1968, director: Peter Zadek ), made ironic reference to the hit lines I kiss your hand, Madame . The song is also played in the film.

There was also a parody of this song

I kiss your hand, madame, and your dog will bite me.
I am so amazed, Madame, and there is no reason for that.
If I have your trust and sympathy
first, Madame , and may I hit him first, Madame.
Yes, then you will look, Madame,
instead of your dog, Madame, I'll
hit you in the mouth yourself.

which was interpreted by Felix Knemöller .

Recordings of the English title and later cover versions

The Leo Reisman Orchestra was successful with the song (Victor 21920) in the US charts (# 3); Other musicians who covered the song from October 1929 included Lud Gluskin ( Homokord or 1929 Tri-Ergon ), Alfred Vogel with orchestra (Beka), Whispering Jack Smith , and Marek Weber in Berlin , and Jack Hylton , Bert in London Maddison & his Band (Sterno 126) and Richard Tauber with the Grand Symphony Orchestra London (Odeon), in the USA Sam Lanin ( Pathé X-6278), Smith Ballew (Parlophone), Dick Robertson , Dick Adamsons SS "Malolo" Orchestra ( Columbia 40089), Fred Rich and his Orchestra, Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra (Brunswick, vocals Scrappy Lambert ).

Label of the shellac record with the song I Kiss Your Hand, Madame , which the "whispering baritone" Whispering Jack Smith recorded on August 27, 1928 in Berlin with piano accompaniment.

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 24 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , with English text by Red Norvo (Columbia 1938), Paul Whiteman (1939), Helmut Zacharias (1949), Lionel Hampton (1956), and Dick Hyman , Earl Bostic , Charlie Shavers , Carmen Cavallaro and Papa Bue Jensen , with German text from Hazy Osterwald Sextet / Combo (1954) Johannes Fehring (1956) and (around 1980) the Blue Note Seven

Bing Crosby sang him in the Paramount musical The Emperor Waltz (1948, directed by Billy Wilder ); accompanied by the studio orchestra Victor Young , he recorded the song for Decca Records (# 4170-B). The Manhattan Transfer sang I Kisses Your Hand, Madame in the soundtrack of the film Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo . I Kiss Your Hand, Madame was also supported by musicians of pop and light music as Perry Como (1943), Buddy Clark (1947), Spike Jones & His City Slickers, the Comedian Harmonists , Fritz Schulz-Reichel , Fritz Wunderlich , Johannes Heesters , Aimé Barelli , Hugo Strasser , Günter Noris , Peter Kreuder / Ralph Marco , Paul Kuhn / SFB Big Band , Kai Warner (1967) and Max Raabe covered. The singer Gábor József recorded a Hungarian version (Megcsókolom kezét Madame) , a French version (Ce N'est Que Votre Main, madame) came from Gesky De L'empire (Disque K-5635); Tadeusz Faliszewski performed it in Polish (Całuję twoją dłoń) .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d e Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina & London 2007, p. 163 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Blue flower. Manual. Polish Edition, Volume 2; Volume 6, 2003
  3. ↑ film history, no. 7/8, May 1996, pp 29-30, online deutsche-kinemathek.de
  4. ↑ Philip Hoare: Noel Coward: A Biography of Noel Coward . 2013.
  5. ↑ Duden editorship (ed.): Quotes and sayings: origin and current use (= Duden Volume 12). 3. Edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-411-04123-7 , p. 257 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ Victor Orthophonic 21973
  7. ↑ VICTOR A-1002 (4478)
  8. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  9. ↑ Cast: John Evers (tp), Gereon Wolter (tb), Emmerich Kutrovatz (cl), Jürgen Pingitzer (p), Klaus Radinger (g), Heinz Feix (b), andlesenk Tenczar (dr).
  10. ↑ 1978; Atlantic Recording Corp., ATL 1120
  11. ↑ Columbia 37592
  12. ↑ Victor 20-949