“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for their 1933 musical Roberta. It was originally recorded by Gertrude Niesen, on October 13, 1933. Continue reading
俾斯麥英國導演路易士吉伯特Lewis Gilbert執導(曾執導過007系列之海底城)，講述1941年5月英國海軍於大西洋擊沉德國著名戰鬥艦「俾斯麥號」故事；演員有邁克蕭Michael Sarne、約翰史都華John Stuart、卡瑞史提尼克Karel Stepanek皆當時著名電影小生，片長97分黑白電影；近年好萊塢有重拍成彩色電影提議。The film was the inspiration for Johnny Horton’s popular 1960 song, “Sink the Bismarck.” Continue reading
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“Silver Threads Among the Gold”, first copyrighted in 1873, was an extremely popular song in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today it is a standard of barbershop quartet singing. The lyrics are by Eben E. Rexford, and the music by Hart Pease Danks. In 1930, an Associated Press story published in the New York Times gave some background on the writing of these lyrics. We quote the article: Continue reading