GRETA KELLER SINGS Edith Piaf La Vie en Rose Songs of London Paris DECCA DA-706
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A series of great German, Swiss and Austrian Marches, Folk Band, Humor and Popular recordings
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Keller in 1940
Great WEIMAR REPUBLIC singer GRETA KELLER, who sang everything better than the original singers here in a great cover of famous songs in French, English and Austrian-German
Greta Keller With Gerard van Krevelen And His Orchestra
Greta Keller Sings Songs Of London - Paris - Vienna
Label: Decca – A-706
Series: Specialty Series
Format:
3 x Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Album
Nina - Noel Coward
If Love Were All - Noel Coward
La Vie En Rose - Greta Keller; Gerald Van Krevelen and His Orchestra; Louiguy; Edith Piaf
Si Bien - Greta Keller; Gerald Van Krevelen and His Orchestra; G. Lafarge
Wann Der Steffel - Greta Keller; Gerald Van Krevelen and His Orchestra; H. Lang
Das Hat Kein Goethe G'Schrieb'N - Greta Keller; Gerald Van Krevelen and His Orchestra; Wiesberg; Sioly
Sides A, B, C, D: Sung in English
Sides E, F: Sung in German
All sides: Recorded in Holland
EXCELLENT faint scuffs, plays EXCEPTIONALLY QUIET
Album Great, binding and sleeves sound, light rubbing to front cover
Greta Keller-Bacon (February 8, 1903 – November 11, 1977) Vienna-born cabaret singer and Hollywood actress.
childhood photograph of Greta KellerBorn Margaretha Keller, she studied dance from the age of 8 followed by acting classes. Her début was in "Pavillon" in Vienna. She also appeared on Stage with Marlene Dietrich in "Broadway" , in which she sang and danced. A recording contract with Ultraphon in 1929 her singing took her from Vienna to Prague and Berlin, where she had a big success with Peter Igelhoff and Peter Kreuder. For over 45 years, through a life of triumphs and tragedies, her voice a legend-in radio shows, films, revues, concerts and musicals, but above all her records circled the globe. First called 'The Great Lady Of Chanson' in her native Vienna, it followed her to London and America.
Marriage
In Hollywood she met and married Gaspar Griswold Bacon, Jr. son of Gaspar G. Bacon from a prominent Brahmin family. The elder Bacon was a member of the board of Harvard University, and had been a close associate of J.P. Morgan, and later served as Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt and Ambassador to France under William Howard Taft.
Known in film and theater as David Bacon, her husband was murdered in 1943, two weeks after finishing a major role in the Republic serial The Masked Marvel. Speculation involved affairs with Howard Hughes and another actor, but the murder was never solved. Not long after their child was stillborn.
It took some time for her to recover from these blows, but she restarted her career in Switzerland, then on to Vienna, Berlin and back to New York City.
[edit] Career
Her lieder voice carried the charm of the Parisian women but never lost the heart of the girl from Vienna. Greta's singing in what some call "a style reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich" comes from the fact she was the model for how Marlene Dietrich developed her own voice. Greta Keller made recordings throughout the world and from the earliest days of "schellack" to the dawn of CDs. She spent many years in the United States, notably in hotel club rooms at the Waldorf and (later) the Stanhope in New York, where her show always included "My Way" , composed by Paul Anka, and a number of Noel Coward numbers. A 'singer's singer', Keller often drew other performers to the room, including the Nordstrom Sisters, Beverly Sills and Hildegarde. Other regulars would book the same table most nights that she was performing which included photographer Edgar de Evia. Favorites of the Stanhope crowd were the songs of Cole Porter and Noel Coward, for their sexual innuendo and double entendres. These included "Miss Otis Regrets" and "I'm the Other Woman in His Life" by her close friend Elisse Boyd. She regularly returned to Vienna. The poet and singer Rod McKuen was introduced by her to an audience in Vienna. McKuen, in turn ,hosted a concert presenting her at Lincoln Center in the 1970s, and wrote the lyric "If You Go Away" to Jacques Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas" , which she always sang.
Greta's greatest strength was in her adaptability. Each song, took the caress in her voice in a unique way. Her repertoire included songs from the 1930s through the war years as well as popular songs of the day. A few years before her death, her voice appeared in the Academy Award-winning movie, Cabaret (1972), for which she sang the song, "Heirat" (Married). The last years of her life, from 1973 to her death in November of 1977 Greta lived, worked, and traveled with the last great love of her life, Wolfgang Nebmaier, who now lives in Southern Oregon.
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