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Intersting ?!?

To see that mr Glitter acknowledges the Sisters choice of cover!

Fro the GG WWW !!!

http://home.hccnet.nl/famvander.linden/gg5750.htm
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I doubt that site is official. Also, it's copied word for word, including spelling mistakes, from the Covers Project website. Now you want to go and look up the Sisters there don't you? All right then:

http://www.coversproject.com/artist/Sis ... Of%2BMercy

Not sure of the accuracy of this -- Bei Mir Bist Du Schone was originally by the Andrews Sisters?? The covers project relies on submissions from the public, so I assume someone was 'aving a laff. I trust noone from here.... hmm? :wink:

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Quite right too ;D

But I thought Gary Glitter was an unperson now. :urff:
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Lowrider wrote:Bei Mir Bist Du Schone was originally by the Andrews Sisters??
AFAIK it was...
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there's about a dozen versions of "bei mir" doing the rounds...

its a traditional jewish song (hence von's comment during the toronto gig about lyric sheets & speaking hebrew)
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http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/a ... tail&ID=11
"Bei Mir Bist du Schön"
How Sholom Secunda (1894–1974) gave away the rights to his popular classic...for a song

There is a popular myth that when the Andrews Sisters released their hugely successful recording of Sholom Secunda's "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön" in 1938, the composer's mother was so distraught, she fasted for a week to expiate her sins.

The reason for her distress? Only two months earlier, her son had sold the rights to the song for a mere thirty dollars!

While the extreme reaction of Secunda's mother, perpetrated by a sensational article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, is most likely an exaggeration, the amazingly low amount of the sale is true.

Of course, the composer had no idea the song would become such a hit. Written in 1932, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön" (translation: "To Me You Are Beautiful") was part of a Yiddish operetta called I Would If I Could, written in 1932 by Abraham Bloom, with music by Secunda and lyrics by his writing partner, Jacob Jacobs.

The trio had attempted to sell the show to Hollywood, with no success. Even Eddie Cantor, who years later would feature the song and its composer on his radio show, originally turned the show down. With no greater prospects in sight for their song, Secunda and Jacobs decided they might as well sell the rights to a publisher.

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So when did the Sisters cover Tainted Love? I must have missed this one!
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MrChris wrote:So when did the Sisters cover Tainted Love? I must have missed this one!
Can't see it listed on anyones site :?:
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I think it's a cock-up on the covers project somehow. Especially as they've got it "originally by Soft Cell" which it isn't. The original version was recorded by Gloria Jones I believe.
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ha! as someone once said, the net is allergic to truth and reason...

can you magine von doing "tainted love"? :lol:

more chance of him covering "cry little sister" ;)
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Darn, I was rather hoping it was true. We could have sent it to Marc to cheer him up.
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MrChris wrote:Darn, I was rather hoping it was true. We could have sent it to Marc to cheer him up.
:lol: :notworthy:
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markfiend wrote:Quite right too ;D

But I thought Gary Glitter was an unperson now. :urff:
oh yes. But it's more a case of him being the only one to have been found out. *cough* Bill Wyman/Mandy Smith *another cough* Jimmy Page and that 14-year-old groupie... and that's just for starters.

not that this means GG is a nice person. But it's certainly hypocritical to suggest that he's alone!

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Lowrider wrote:oh yes. But it's more a case of him being the only one to have been found out. *cough* Bill Wyman/Mandy Smith *another cough* Jimmy Page and that 14-year-old groupie... and that's just for starters.

not that this means GG is a nice person. But it's certainly hypocritical to suggest that he's alone!
Oh, agreed.

And there is the fact that all Gary Glitter was ever convicted of was possession of nasty pictures, which, I submit, is not as bad as actual sex with children.
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allfear wrote:Intersting ?!?

To see that mr Glitter acknowledges the Sisters choice of cover!

Fro the GG WWW !!!

http://home.hccnet.nl/famvander.linden/gg5750.htm
I have a copy of the Transvision Vamp version if anyones interested.
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Thought not! :lol:
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Quiff Boy wrote: can you magine von doing "tainted love"? :lol:
Vividly. :lol: :von:
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