the1920sand30s | Hildegarde - Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup (1935) @the1920sand30s | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
Performed by: Hildegarde
Full Song Title: Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
Recorded in: 1935
A-side re-recording of: youtu.be/QNU0sx-7YYY
Old recording: youtu.be/lj9J8ZJ9L4w
Oh my, I could listen to this song for hours on repeat and not get tired of hearing her sing.
"Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" is a popular song with words and music by Anna Sosenko in 1935. Sosenko was the manager of the singer Hildegarde who adopted the song as her theme.
It was introduced by Hildegarde in the film "Love and Hisses", which is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and Simone Simon. It is the sequel to the film "Wake Up and Live".
Hildegarde Loretta Sell (born February 1, 1906 – died July 29, 2005) was a popular American cabaret singer, well known for the song "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup".
Hildegarde Loretta Sell, was born in Adell, Wisconsin, in 1906 into a German-American family. When the Sells moved to Milwaukee, Hildegarde enrolled in the School of Music at Marquette University intending to become a concert pianist. But after seeing a Vaudeville act four women playing four baby grand pianos at the same time she decided to become an entertainer.
She joined a troupe of touring performers, playing the piano in the pit orchestra. Her life took another turn when she met Anna Sosenko in a New Jersey boardinghouse. Sosenko was a burgeoning songwriter, and for Hildegarde she wrote a bilingual ditty that would make the singer famous from coast to coast. In 1935, for Pathé Pictorial, Hildegarde went on-camera and recorded “Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup.”
At Sosenko’s suggestion, Hildegarde started wearing elegant gowns and shoulder length gloves when she performed. When the two undertook a European tour, Sosenko reported to newspapers back in the States that important people on the Continent had become enthralled by the American chanteuse. Suddenly Hildegarde was an international celebrity.
The leading columnist of the day, Walter Winchell, dubbed her “The Incomparable Hildegarde” and Eleanor Roosevelt would later call her “The First Lady of Supper Clubs.” She had a Top 10 radio show and traveled with her own orchestra. Her admirers included King Gustaf of Sweden and the Duke of Windsor.
By April 17, 1939, when Life magazine put her face on its cover, only one word was necessary Hildegarde.
During World War II, she scored another hit with an English-language cover of the 1939 German song "Lili Marlene" that had become a favorite of both Axis and Allied soldiers.
She was so popular that Revlon introduced a Hildegarde shade of lipstick and nail polish, and a nursery developed a Hildegarde Rose.
A young pianist, also from Milwaukee, went to see her often when she was playing the Empire Room at the Palmer House in Chicago. He admired her flashy entrances, flamboyant playing, and lavish costumes, and when he launched his career, he, too, went by just one name Liberace.
Endorsements and investments kept Hildegarde financially secure well after her fame had peaked, and a sense of humor must have helped to keep her healthy. “Miss Piggy got the gloves idea from me,” she joked. During a lifetime that lasted just six months short of a hundred years, Hildegarde never married, but she left a rich showbiz legacy that many performers continue to draw from today.
She died at age 99 in a hospital in Manhattan on July 29, 2005, of natural causes.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
______________________
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.
Performed by: Hildegarde
Full Song Title: Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
Recorded in: 1935
A-side re-recording of: youtu.be/QNU0sx-7YYY
Old recording: youtu.be/lj9J8ZJ9L4w
Oh my, I could listen to this song for hours on repeat and not get tired of hearing her sing.
"Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" is a popular song with words and music by Anna Sosenko in 1935. Sosenko was the manager of the singer Hildegarde who adopted the song as her theme.
It was introduced by Hildegarde in the film "Love and Hisses", which is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and Simone Simon. It is the sequel to the film "Wake Up and Live".
Hildegarde Loretta Sell (born February 1, 1906 – died July 29, 2005) was a popular American cabaret singer, well known for the song "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup".
Hildegarde Loretta Sell, was born in Adell, Wisconsin, in 1906 into a German-American family. When the Sells moved to Milwaukee, Hildegarde enrolled in the School of Music at Marquette University intending to become a concert pianist. But after seeing a Vaudeville act four women playing four baby grand pianos at the same time she decided to become an entertainer.
She joined a troupe of touring performers, playing the piano in the pit orchestra. Her life took another turn when she met Anna Sosenko in a New Jersey boardinghouse. Sosenko was a burgeoning songwriter, and for Hildegarde she wrote a bilingual ditty that would make the singer famous from coast to coast. In 1935, for Pathé Pictorial, Hildegarde went on-camera and recorded “Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup.”
At Sosenko’s suggestion, Hildegarde started wearing elegant gowns and shoulder length gloves when she performed. When the two undertook a European tour, Sosenko reported to newspapers back in the States that important people on the Continent had become enthralled by the American chanteuse. Suddenly Hildegarde was an international celebrity.
The leading columnist of the day, Walter Winchell, dubbed her “The Incomparable Hildegarde” and Eleanor Roosevelt would later call her “The First Lady of Supper Clubs.” She had a Top 10 radio show and traveled with her own orchestra. Her admirers included King Gustaf of Sweden and the Duke of Windsor.
By April 17, 1939, when Life magazine put her face on its cover, only one word was necessary Hildegarde.
During World War II, she scored another hit with an English-language cover of the 1939 German song "Lili Marlene" that had become a favorite of both Axis and Allied soldiers.
She was so popular that Revlon introduced a Hildegarde shade of lipstick and nail polish, and a nursery developed a Hildegarde Rose.
A young pianist, also from Milwaukee, went to see her often when she was playing the Empire Room at the Palmer House in Chicago. He admired her flashy entrances, flamboyant playing, and lavish costumes, and when he launched his career, he, too, went by just one name Liberace.
Endorsements and investments kept Hildegarde financially secure well after her fame had peaked, and a sense of humor must have helped to keep her healthy. “Miss Piggy got the gloves idea from me,” she joked. During a lifetime that lasted just six months short of a hundred years, Hildegarde never married, but she left a rich showbiz legacy that many performers continue to draw from today.
She died at age 99 in a hospital in Manhattan on July 29, 2005, of natural causes.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
______________________
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.
![Heinz Wehner - Du und ich und die Liebe [ You and me and Love] (1938)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SkS9_zHFGFU/hqdefault.jpg "Heinz Wehner - Du und ich und die Liebe [ You and me and Love] (1938)
Performed by: Heinz Wehner mit seinem Tanzorchester
Full Song Title: Du und ich und die Liebe
Recorded in: Berlin, 1938
Heinz (Heinrich) Wehner (born May 21, 1908 in Obstfeld in Westphalia – died most likely in January 1945 near Landsberg an der Warthe) was a popular German jazz musician, band leader and with his Telefunken Swing Orchestra was considered one of the top European Jazz bands of its time.
Wehner had been studying music at the Hanover Conservatory since he was twelve and recognized his talent as a violinist and trumpet soloist; Wehner, enthusiastic about the jazz of the 1920s, initially founded a trio in 1925, which he was able to expand into an octet over the next few years. He soon performed with this ensemble not only in the Hanover region, but also in the Bergisches Land and on Norderney.
In 1933 he got the opportunity to perform in the renowned Düsseldorf dance palace Tabaris. In the same year he performed with a six-piece bar band in the Berlin Ritz Bar. In 1934 he could be heard in the Europahaus at the Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin, where many well-known jazz and entertainment orchestras were guests at the time. Shortly before this performance, Wehner had been able to win over the well-known Willy Berking as a trombonist, as well as Benny de Weille and the pianist Helmuth Wernicke. From then on he had great success with American swing numbers. As early as 1935, Telefunken, one of the largest German record companies, invited him to his first studio recordings.
The Heinz Wehner Telefunken Swing Orchestra included Herbert Müller (clarinet/alto saxophone), Willy Berking (trombone), Kurt Hoffmann (trombone), Ewald Meyer, Artur Flömer, Helmuth Wernicke (piano), Hermann Scholz, Ronny Niepel and the Austrian Theo Ferstl (trumpet and arrangement), who joined the newly founded German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra (DTU) in 1942. In addition to directing, Wehner usually also took on the singing roles in English and German.
Wehner became internationally known through public appearances, recordings and radio. In issue 12/1937 of the US jazz magazine Down Beat, the critic Dick McBougall described the Telefunken Orchestra in the jazz magazine as the best band in the Nazi Reich. Similar praise also came from Sweden. From this point, Heinz Wehner was one of the most popular German-speaking swing musicians in Europe alongside Teddy Stauffer, which was also reflected in the number of his recordings.
In the year of his marriage, 1941, Wehner was sent to Norway to conduct a Wehrmacht orchestra for the Oslo Soldiers Station to look after the troops and accompanied Lale Andersen in 1942. But he continued to play regularly at the Delphi Filmpalast in Berlin during his leave from the front and he also kept recording swing records until the very end. He stayed in Norway with his Wehrmacht orchestra until 1944; then he was transferred to the Eastern Front via occupied Czechoslovakia. A recording made at the end of 1944 with the orchestra of the Czech jazz musician Karel Vlach in Prague is considered to be his last recording. Heinz Wehner was last seen during rearguard action in the Landsberg an der Warthe area on January 21, 1945. In 1958 he was officially declared dead.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.")
![Austin Egen & Jack Hylton Orchester - Heut War Ich Bei Der Frida [Today I was with Frida] (1928)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UAMkB-W5ppE/hqdefault.jpg "Austin Egen & Jack Hylton Orchester - Heut War Ich Bei Der Frida [Today I was with Frida] (1928)
Performed by: Austin Egen & Jack Hilton Orchester
Full Song Title: Heut War Ich Bei Der Frida
Recorded in: 1928
Austin Egen was born on March 28, 1897 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Tingel-Tangel (1930), Kopfüber ins Glück (1931) and Son Windhund (1931). He died on August 18, 1941 in Frohnleiten, Styria, Austria.
Jack Hylton (2 July 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an English band leader and impresario who rose to prominence during the British dance band era.
After the First World War Hylton played with the Queens Dance Orchestra, wrote arrangements of popular songs and recorded them under the label Directed by Jack Hylton. He then formed his own band, recording the new style of jazz-derived American dance music under the Jack Hylton name from 1923. Hylton became a respected band leader with a busy schedule. Even though he was not professionally trained for business, he brought his band to success at a time when the Great Depression hit hard. With his entrepreneurial skills, he managed to sell almost four million records in 1929 according to the Daily Herald of 7 June 1930. His good reputation allowed him to make contacts with famous jazz artists of time, hence the reason he was credited for bringing Duke Ellington to Britain in 1933. This overall success allowed Jack Hyltons band not only to entertain people in Britain, but also abroad. The band frequently had what were called continental tours which made it famous in various places in Europe, especially in France. He became a director and major shareholder of the new Decca record label. His band developed into an orchestra and toured America and Europe into the 1940s, when it disbanded due to the Second World War. Hylton adopted The Soldiers in the Park (more commonly known as Oh Listen to the Band) as his signature tune.
On 26 January 1965, complaining of chest and stomach pains, Hylton was admitted to the London Clinic. He died there three days later, from a heart attack, aged 72. Hyltons spending habits and generosity left his estate with £242,288. Hylton said to his son during his latter years, I wont leave you much, but well have a good laugh spending it while Im here! He is buried in the churchyard of St Catherine at Gosfield, Essex. His wife Beverley is buried beside him.
Specialist dance band radio stations, such as Radio Dismuke and Swing Street Radio, continue to play his records. Jack Hylton also featured regularly on the weekly Manx Radio programme Sweet & Swing, presented by Jim and Howard Caine.
His 1930 recording of Happy Days Are Here Again was used during the closing credits of episode four of Ken Burnss documentary series, The Roosevelts.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.")
