I'm in love with you

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I'm in Love with You is a foxtrot song that composer Paul Titsworth wrote in 1929 for the early American talkie The Great Gabbo . In it, Erich von Stroheim , directed by James Cruze, plays an egomaniacal ventriloquist who is gradually slipping into madness. The English words for it come from Lynn Cowan , a German text with the refrain What your look promises wrote Richard Rillo and the music publisher Armin Robinson. The song was published in the United States by Sherman, Clay & Co. music publisher in San Francisco, California. In Germany the sheet music for the film songs was available from Alberti-Verlag Berlin W 50.

The film premiered in the United States at the Selwyn Theater, New York City on September 12, 1929. " The Great Gabbo " did not premiere until 1930 in Germany and Austria .

The songs from the film also appeared on gramophone records in both the US and Germany.

Sound documents (examples)

  • I'm in Love with You , Fox Trot from the film The Great Gabbo (Titsworth - Cowan), Tom Gerun [ovich] and His Orch., With Vocal Chorus. Brunswick (USA) 4520, rec. 1929
  • What your gaze promises Foxtrot from the sound film The Great Gabbo (P. Titsworth - R. Rillo, A. Robinson). Fred Bird Rhythmicans with Refraingesang: Luigi Bernauer , on Homocord 4-3706-I, Matr. H-62807, 1930

literature

  • Richard Barrios: A Song in the Dark. The Birth of the Musical Film. (= Oxford paperbacks ). Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-508811-5 , pp. 12, 111, 124, 126, 128, 131, 186, 189, 217-221, 261, 272, 302, 388, 396, 406, 441. (English)
  • Edwin M. Bradley: The First Hollywood Musicals. A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932. McFarland Verlag, 2004, ISBN 0-7864-2029-4 , pp. Xi, 60–62, 264, 372. (English)
  • Discussion of the “sound and noise film with [English] vocal parts and [underlaid German] dialogue” at Paimann's film lists 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sheet music from the music publisher Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco.
  2. ↑ cf. Note on the page in the JFK film program from 1930
  3. ↑ Note lines for “Was dein Blick verspricht” in the German film program booklet “Illustrated Film-Kurier” No. 1406, 1930.
  4. ↑ cf. Cover picture JFK No. 71 (Austria): “Erich von Stroheim as The Great Gabbo”
  5. ↑ In addition to I'm in Love with You , Lynn Cowan and Paul Titsworth also included the song numbers Every Now and Then and The New Dance Step , and Donald McNamee and King Zany I'm Laughing , Ickey and Caught in a Web of Love as well as the lost colored scene The Ga-Ga Bird .
  6. ↑ listen on YouTube
  7. ↑ to be heard on YouTube , label released. at ytimg.com