The Hi-Fi Nightingale
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| Compilation album by Caterina Valente | |
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1956 |
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1954 to 1955 |
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LP, CD |
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12 |
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The Hi-Fi Nightingale is the first English-language music album by the singer Caterina Valente . The work was a compilation of tracks that had previously appeared on shellac records and singles , including Valentes first US hits The Breeze and I and Malagueña . The latter was the only piece of the compilation sung in German , which was released in the United States as a long-playing record on the Decca label in 1956 . The 10 ″ LP Hi-Fi Nightingale by Polydor , released in the same year, contained eight songs and a different selection of tracks.
History of origin
Parallel to Caterina Valentes recordings for the in-house record label Polydor, the parent company Deutsche Grammophon also sold licenses for German and English-language recordings of the singer to the US-American label Brunswick Records and, after only one release, to Decca Records via the German contact person Kurt Kinkele . While the title Malagueña sold comparatively poorly in Germany, the producers of the American television show The Colgate Comedy Hour were enthusiastic about the record and helped Valente make her first appearance on American television in 1955. The piece, sung in German , was number 42 on the charts in the US music magazine Cash Box in February of the same year . At the same time, again in the music hall of the Siemensvilla in Berlin-Lankwitz , the recording of The Breeze and I , which reached number 13 in the USA and number 5 in the respective charts, was recorded.
Due to its international success, Decca was compelled to release an English-language long-playing record under the title The Hi-Fi Nightingale (Decca DL 8203) in 1956 . In addition to Malagueña and The Breeze and I , a large part of the English titles Valentes published up to that point were on the compilation. These included jazz and swing standards by Georges Auric , Nacio Herb Brown , Cole Porter and others, as well as originally German pieces from the pen of Heinz Gietz and Kurt Feltz . In the same year, created with Olé Caterina! and Plenty Valente! the entertainer's first concept albums.
Track list
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The Breeze and I - 3:28
(music: Ernesto Lecuona / English text: Al Stillman) -
If Hearts Could Talk - 3:17
(Music: c / English text: Fred Wise) -
Temptation - 3:24
(Music: Nacio Herb Brown / Text: Arthur Freed ) -
This Ecstasy (It's so nice with you) - 3:05
(Music: Paul Durand / Text: Kurt Feltz / English Text: Kermit Goell) -
Blinds - 3:30
(music: Jacob Gade / English text: Vera Bloom) -
Fiesta Cubana - 2:22
(Music: Heinz Gietz / Text: Kurt Feltz / English Text: Kermit Goell) -
Malagueña (German) - 3:09
(music: Ernesto Lecuona / German text: Ralph Maria Siegel ) -
The Way You Love Me (only a gypsy has so much longing for the stars) - 2:48
(music: Heinz Gietz / text: Kurt Feltz / English text: Kermit Goell) -
My Lonely Lover (Chanson d'amour) - 2:49
(Music: Heinz Gietz / Text: Kurt Feltz / English Text: Kermit Goell) -
Begin the Beguine - 3:10
(music and text: Cole Porter ) -
Siboney - 2:54
(Music: Ernesto Lecuona / Text: Theodora Morse) -
This Must Be Wrong (Oho-aha) - 2:39
(Music: Heinz Gietz / Text: Kurt Feltz / English Text: Kermit Goell)
Web links
- The Hi-Fi Nightingale at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helge Hopp: Your American Dream . The world . February 16, 2003.
- ↑ Kathrin Brigl: Text accompanying the CD box set The Complete Polydor Years 1954-1958 by Caterina Valente. Bear Family Records . 1999. ISBN 3-89795-659-4
- ↑ Jürgen Brückner, Ingrid Grünwald and Richard Weize : The Caterine Valente discography in the CD box set The Complete Polydor Years 1954-1958 by Caterina Valente. Bear Family Records . 1999. ISBN 3-89795-659-4