Charmaine (song)
Charmaine is the title of a song by Erno and Lew Pollack Rapée from 1926, which is primarily known in the instrumental interpretation of Mantovani.
Genesis and early recordings
1926 originated in the United States, the silent movie What Price Glory?, One located somewhere in occupied France of World War drama based on the eponymous play by Maxwell Anderson. As background music for the theatrical release of the film composed Erno and Lew Pollack Rapée after the main female character in the play ( " Charmaine de la Cognac " ) listed, among other things Waltz Charmaine, they released the 1927 commercial.
Within months, the song of different vocalists and orchestras of the time was taken up. One of the first recordings of Charmaine include the version of the then very popular tenor Lewis James and the recording of Guy Lombardo with his " Royal Canadians " and singing his brother Carmen Lombardo (both 1927). Other popular recordings come from the orchestras Jimmy Lunceford (1935 ) and Harry James (1944).
Mantovani
Known to a worldwide audience Charmaine was mainly by Mantovani, for the first time in 1951 in his typical sound of the " cascading strings" brought out the song with an arrangement by Ronald Binge as a single in the UK and hence a total of five months in the U.S. Billboard charts was represented. For Mantovani Charmaine was a kind of signature tune, which he still grossed again later occasions, including for An Album In Waltz Time ( 1955).
Other Artists
In the wake of Mantovani in 1951 numerous other vocal and instrumental versions, including the orchestra Paul Weston already incurred Norman Luboff Choir with, by Vaughn Monroe and Gordon Jenkins with vocal by Bob Carroll; In 1952 an instrumental recording by Billy May
Frank Sinatra released his 1962 arranged by Gordon Jenkins recording of the song on his album All Alone.
1958 took Bill Haley & His Comets at a no longer in waltz time held version. The Irish singing group The Bachelors came in 1963 with its produced by Shel Talmy recording of Charmaine at # 6 of the UK singles chart.
Among the performers of the piece count than those referred to, inter alia, Tex Beneke, Vic Damone, Tommy Dorsey, The Four Freshmen, Erroll Garner, James Last, Michel Legrand, Lou Rawls and Jim Reeves.
Use
- In 1963 incurred, particularly in Germany through its annual New Year's Eve broadcast to popular NDR television production of the sketch Dinner for One is heard at the beginning of an instrumental version of Charmaine, while Heinz Piper speaks the first words. The recording is from the Victor Silvester Orchestra.
- The version of " Charmaine " was used by Monty Python's Flying Circus twice: In the sketch " Seduced Milkmen " in the first season.
- In a sketch about gay footballers in the second season.
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971 )
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975)
- The Green Mile (1999)
- Cheyenne - This Must Be the Place ( 2011)
- The Rum Diary (2011)