Mom (song)
Mamma is an Italian hit song from 1938. It was written by the Italian film composer Cesare Andrea Bixio with a text by Bixio Cherubini for the tenor Beniamino Gigli . The stanzas are in minor , the chorus in major . The rhythm corresponds to the beguine .
In 1941, based on the song, the musical film Mamma was released as an Italian-German coproduction based on a script by Guido Cantini and directed by Guido Brignone . Gigli played the young tenor Mario Sarni, Emma Gramatica his mother and Carola Höhn his young bride Donata. The orchestra accompaniment took place under the direction of Dino Olivieri . In Germany the film was released under the title Mother . In this version of the film, the song was given the title Mother! , the text by Bruno Balz and it was sung by Herbert Ernst Groh . The 1941 film Mother should not be confused with the 1937 film Mother Song .
In the following years other versions of the song of very different characters appeared. Miki Jevremovic sang the song in 1962, released on his record Samson . The most successful interpretation was achieved by the Dutchman Heintje , who performed it at a talent competition when he was eleven and thus established his career as a child star, particularly in Germany. The record entitled Mama was released in October 1967 and became the best-selling single in 1968 in Germany.
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literature
- Valerio Venturi, Cesare Andrea Bixio. L'attività musicale di Bixio per l'industria cinematografica (1920-1945) , libreriauniversitaria, 2010, ISBN 978-88-6292-022-3
- Axel Schock: "We never want to part - the hit writer Bruno Balz ..." , in: Berliner Zeitung of October 5, 2002 [1]