Victor Salon Orchestra: Two Guitars / Black Eyes /Nathaniel Shilkret /10" 78

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• Record Company – Victor Talking Machine Co.

Credits

• Directed By [Director] – Nathaniel Shilkret

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Nathaniel Shilkret (December 25, 1889 – February 18, 1982) was an American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director.

"Dark Eyes" (Russian: ??? ??????, romanized: Ó?i ?jórnye; transl. "Black Eyes") is a well-known and popular Russian romance folk song.

The lyrics were written by the Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka. The first publication of the poem was in Hrebinka's own Russian translation in Literaturnaya Gazeta on 17 January 1843. A song using these lyrics is attested already in the 1870s,[1] but its melody is not known.

In The Book of World-famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk, published in 2000, the author, J. Fuld, mentions that a Soviet musicologist had reported to him that the song is not "a Russian traditional song but a cabaret song", published in a songs book by A. Gutheil in 1897 and mentioned, at p. 131, as a "Gypsy romance based on the melody of Florian Hermann's Valse Hommage.[2] Despite the claim made by Fuld that, "Of the original melody author, Florian Hermann, not a single music score is known,"[3] the sheet music for Hermann's piece and others of his works can be found. Here is his "Rêverie russe":[4]

The most renowned and played version of this song was written by Adalgiso Ferraris, and published, when still in Russia in 1910, with German editor Otto Kuhl, as "Schwarze Augen" (Black Eyes).[5][6] Ferraris then published it again in 1931 by Paris Editions Salabert, as "Tes yeux noirs (impression russe)"[7] and with Jacques Liber, on 9 October 1931.[5][8]

Ferraris, an Italian-born British composer, had spent many years in Russia before 1915. The song became one of his major successes in the 1920s and 1930s, being also played by Albert Sandler, by Leslie Jeffries in 1939, and sung by Al Bowlly in 1939 with words of Albert Mellor.[9][10] Max Jaffa also recorded it.[11][12][13][14]

Ferraris himself can be seen in a British Pathé film from 1934 of Alfredo and his Gypsy band playing "Dark Eyes", sitting in the orchestra behind the lead Alfredo.[15]

Tommy Dorsey played it with his orchestra in 1937 and Jack Teagarden did also nearly 10 years before.

Ferraris's "Dark Eyes" was recorded by Harry Parry and his radio sextet in 1941, and that version is still played by many artists. Chet Atkins played an original interpretation of the song on electric guitar. Wynton Kelly recorded a jazz version in 1958. Feodor Chaliapin also popularised the song abroad.

The song was briefly played by the Three Tenors in their 1990 concert in Rome. It has become one of the signature songs of opera baritone Max Jaffa in his concerts.

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