"Golden Earrings" is a song composed by Victor Young, with lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston,[1] and introduced by Murvyn Vye in the 1947 Paramount film Golden Earrings.[2]
| "Golden Earrings" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Peggy Lee | |
| B-side | "I'll Dance at Your Wedding" |
| Released | 1947 |
| Label | Capitol |
| Composer | Victor Young |
| Lyricists | Ray Evans, Jay Livingston |
| Music video | |
| "Golden Earrings" on YouTube | |
It was a hit on the both sides of Atlantic as recorded by Peggy Lee.[3][4][5][6]
Composition
editReviewing Dinah Shore's version in October 1947, Billboard described "Golden Earrings" as a "dreamy gypsy melody".[7]
As Philip Furia notes in his book American Song Lyricists, 1920-1960, "the melody of [the song]", "cast in the minor mode, and with altered second and seventh scale degrees", "has all the stereotypical markers of one intended to sound 'Jewish,' 'oriental,' or otherwise non-Western."[2]
Reference
edit- ↑ "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series". 1962.
- 1 2 Furia, Philip (2002). American Song Lyricists, 1920-1960. Gale. ISBN 978-0-7876-6008-6.
Although sung by Murvyn Vye in the movie, it was Peggy Lee's version that reached the number-one slot on the popular-music charts early in 1948
- ↑ "Chart Hits". Peggy Lee.com.
- ↑ "England's Top 20". Billboard Music Week. June 1948.
- ↑ "The Billboard". The Billboard. 1947.
- ↑ "The Year's Top Selling Female Vocalists Over Record Counters". Billboard. 3 January 1948.
- ↑ "Billboard". 18 October 1947.