THE TWENTY-THIRD DATE OF OCTOBER COMMEMORATES THE ENTRY INTO OUR WORLD OF MINE OWN LATE AND SAINTED FATHER, CHIEF PETTY OFFICER GEORGE JOSEPH HENRY DIETRICH (birthed Anno Domini MCMXIX [1919]—deceased MMVII [2007] Commonal Èræ; Thanatized) ... “SAILOR” IS A 1961 HIT SONG BY ENGLISH SINGER, ACTRESS & COMPOSER PETULA SALLY OLWEN CLARK of THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (born 1932—). Per the January 28th, 1961 Issᵫ of MELODY MAKER, Petula Clark “... created a new record by becoming the first British female vocalist to shoot so high in the charts on the first entry.” The Ballad Entered The Melody Maker Hit Parade at Number 7, Claiming Over a Hundred Thousand (100 000+) Sales. Clark’s Version was Recorded on Pye and Backed by “MY HEART.” The Credits on the Actual Record are to SCHARFENBERGER, BUSCH and WEST. Originally Written in Die Deutschensprache (“The German Language”) by WERNER SCHARFENBERGER and FINI BUSCH, The Ænglish Lyrics were in fact Written by NORMAN NEWELL (and Credited as DAVID WEST). Clark also Recorded the Song in Français (“French”) – as “MARIN” – shortly she Married a Frenchman and went on to become as big a Star in Republiqᵫ Français (The “French Republic”) as in Britain. The Ballad was also Recorded by ANNE SHELTON on Philips at about the same time as the Original Clark Ænglish-Language Recording, and was her Final Chart Success. The Original Version of this song, “SEEMANN (DEINE HEIMAT IST DAS MEER [‘THINE HOME IS THE SEA’]),” was Originally a #2 Hit for Austrian Vocalist LOLITA in Deutschland (“Germany”). The Record then became a Top 10 Hit in The United States for the same Singer. When Petula Clark decided to Record it, EMI Producer Norman Newell was asked to Pen an Ænglish Lyric. He recalled in the book 1000 UK #1 HITS by JON KUTNER & SPENCER LEIGH: “The publisher phoned me one Friday and said he would like me to do it over the weekend. I agreed and he said that a messenger would pick it up on Monday morning. I dont know why, but I completely forgot about it. I was astonished when I saw the messenger boy on Monday, so I took him to the canteen and wrote the lyrics in about ten minutes. I wondered if it was good enough, but it became a tremendous hit, thank heavens.” ~ Douglas Duane Dietrich
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:32:55 +0000
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