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Jeanette MacDonald: Lover Come Back To Me, 1940

4,456 views · Published 16 February 2017 · 4:03 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: 240252 · 2017 · Music

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Jeanette MacDonald – Lover Come Back To Me, from Film „The New Moon” (Mandel-Hammerstein II – Romberg) with Orch. cond. by Giuseppe Bamboschek, HMV 1940 (recorded in USA, pressed in UK). 

NOTE: This beautiful song was first presented on stage in the musical “The New Moon” presented on Broadway in 1928. The song Lover Come Back To Me has been ever since a great international hit and one of American song classic. Initially, it had been recorded as a dance hit by many hot-dance orchestras during the Jazz Age.  Here, it is presented as a torch-song, sung by Jeanette Mac Donald, who performed it in the second Film version of “The New Moon” in 1940. Released in the year of the beginning of the Second World War, the film was overshadowed by many tragic events and became one of the last “white furs and diamonds” Hollywood  productions. Today, it is only a nice souvenir, althought MacDonald’s crystal soprano still charms. 

Some extra bonus for Polish viewers is the name of the conductor: Bamboschek. This word is a funny diminutive of Polish word “bambosz”, meaning “a slipper” and proves, that Maestro could have had some Polish ancestors in his family. Enjoy that lovely recording! :-).

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