Just don't cry for love
| Just don't cry for love | |
|---|---|
| Zarah Leander with the Balalaika Orchestra Boris Romanoff | |
| publication | 1939 |
| length | 4:07 |
| Genre (s) | Bat |
| text | Hans Fritz Beckmann |
| music | Theo Mackeben |
| Label | Odeon |
| Cover versions | |
| 2007 | Brings |
| 2014 | AnnenMayKantereit |
Just don't cry out of love is a hit by Hans Fritz Beckmann (lyrics) and Theo Mackeben (music) from the German film melodrama It was a glittering ball night sung by Zarah Leander .
History of origin
The song goes back to a Russian folk song, which was rewritten for the 1939 film It was a glittering ball night . The film is set in Moscow in 1865 and is loosely based on the life of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky , who is adored and supported by Katharina Alexandrovna Murakina, played by Zarah Leander . The song was recorded on August 14, 1939 with the Boris Romanoff balalaika orchestra. After the war, Zarah Leander became an icon of the gay movement with her ambiguous lyrics and smoky voice and the song became a gay classic. The line of text "It doesn't matter who we love ..." could be understood as the motto of the gay scene, the line "I love everyone I like" as an expression of sexual liberation and permissiveness.
Cover versions
In 2007 the Kölschrock band Brings covered the hit and reached number 37 in the German single charts.
2014 AnnenMayKantereit - band in Cologne
Web links
- Website about Zarah Leander
- Biography of Zarah Leander on the Lebendiges Museum Online website (online portal on German history)
Individual evidence
- ↑ It was a glittering ball night on filmportal.de
- ↑ Wolfgang Schneidereit In: Discography of the singing interpreters of the light muse from 1925 to 1945 in German-speaking countries: A discography with biographical information in 3 volumes Volume 2: Kirsten Heiberg to Ethel Reschke. P. 801.
- ↑ One Century Zarah Leander, article by Dennis Klein on queer.de
- ^ Film diva, Nazi darling and gay idol, article by Thomas Borchert on stern.de
- ↑ Information about the single: Just not cry for love from Brings on discogs.de
- ↑ AnnenMayKantereit meets Zarah Leander - Just don't cry out of love -. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .