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Delilah
Words by Billy Rose, Music by Fred Fisher
Performed by The Original Indiana Five
Vocal refrain by Tony Pace
Recorded December 24, 1926
Harmony 327
The song is not the Biblical story of Sampson and Delilah although the verse contains the line: "I am your Sampson, Oh Delilah."
Perhaps it was inspired by the Paramount film "The Sheik" starring Rudolph Valentino. In the film the sheik sings, "Pale hands I love beside the Shalimar..." The song "Delilah" contains the line: "You hold my heart in your pale hands." Valentino died at the age of 31, just four months before this recording was made.
Fred Fisher also wrote the music for the 1919 hit, "Dardanella"
Delilah
Words by Billy Rose, Music by Fred Fisher
Performed by The Original Indiana Five
Vocal refrain by Tony Pace
Recorded December 24, 1926
Harmony 327
The song is not the Biblical story of Sampson and Delilah although the verse contains the line: "I am your Sampson, Oh Delilah."
Perhaps it was inspired by the Paramount film "The Sheik" starring Rudolph Valentino. In the film the sheik sings, "Pale hands I love beside the Shalimar..." The song "Delilah" contains the line: "You hold my heart in your pale hands." Valentino died at the age of 31, just four months before this recording was made.
Fred Fisher also wrote the music for the 1919 hit, "Dardanella"
