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The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel.It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Berber fighters, against French colonial rule in Morocco. [1]
"A Horse with No Name" is a song by American folk rock trio America. Written by Dewey Bunnell, it was released on the Warner Bros. label, in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States. The song was met with commercial success and topped charts in Canada, Finland, and on the US Billboard Hot 100. [5]
The Desert Song is a 1929 American pre-Code sound (All-Talking) operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy. It was photographed partly in two-color Technicolor , the first film released by Warner Bros. to include footage in color.
Romberg in 1949. Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) [1] was a Hungarian-born American composer. He is best known for his musicals and operettas, particularly The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928).
"Girls Goodbye" — José Ferrer (lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly) "Fat Fat Fatima" — José Ferrer (from 1921 musical Love Birds, lyrics by Ballard MacDonald) "Jazza-Dada-Doo" — José Ferrer (from 1921 musical Bombo, lyrics by Harold Atteridge) "It" — Ann Miller (from 1926 operetta The Desert Song, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A ...
One Alone is a popular love song composed by Sigmund Romberg with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach for their operetta The Desert Song; it is the "western" part of a scene in the operetta contrasting eastern and western notions of love.
The Desert Song is a 1953 film version in Technicolor of Sigmund Romberg's operetta. It is the third film version of the operetta, the third made by Warner Bros. , and the second in full three-strip Technicolor.
"Honolulu Baby" is a song written by Marvin Hatley for the 1933 Laurel and Hardy film Sons of the Desert. [1] [2] Ty Parvis performed the song in the film, which is later performed by Oliver Hardy. [3] [4]