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  • Beautiful, timeless quality.

  • Nicely naive!

  • Watching this always brings out a smile. What a mood lifter!!

  • Terrific, I am in love hmm hmm.

  • OMG! What a delightful performance. 

  • mic33 george.How I second your remarks!Unfortunately most of them seem to excel not in talent but in the field of fornication with any,all or anybody,indiscriminately.The italo-american slut "madge" is a rime example.

  • i want to download this album!! going to check out in downloadmusic .im

  • Not much Hildegarde on you-tube,thought there would be more.She did a fantastic version of "for you-for me"

  • Oh if only modern female singers would take a leaf from Hildegarde and the charm of sweet simple vocals!Beautiful voice and lady-charming

  • I had read about her but this is the first time that I hear her sing, what a sweet voice!! She reminds me of Ramona and her grand Piano....those singers from the 30s were just the best!!!

  • Anywhere to download her music?

  • @swampwiz do you have iTunes?

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  • Hildegarde and my grt-aunt were friends, they met on a Trans-Atlantic cruise in August 1952 (S.S.United States). I was never sure which Hildegarde (Kneff of Sell) it was from the family stories but then I confirmed it by looking at passenger records. I met Hildegarde at the Russian Tea Room in 1991. She was lovely.

  • The Kingston Trio thought highly enough of Hildegarde to mention her in their live performances in the mid-1960s. And that's saying a lot.

  • i love her always have too bad their are not more clips of her on you tube . lovely

  • Very good voice I uploaded a live version of Im going to see you today with Gracie Fields on to youtube a rare radio transcriptions and as there is not much Hildegarde, thought it might be of interest I have corrected the spelling oops left the e off hildegarde Thanks for this charming.

  • i love her voice so pretty and simple thank you for posting this ! i have never heard of her before either - but i like her a lot - why cant we have more music like this again ? just simple pretty things again - not humping around sex stuff on the radio and videos i get so disgusted of those

  • I read her biography over Thanksgiving and I must admit I had never heard of her before. I am so glad you posted this because I was wonderfing what she sounded like playing the piano and singing. She was very good.

  • I remember meeting her in NY in the late 80's, very charming and kind woman.  She was a fine entertainer, with an engaging quality.

  • She was a brilliant talent! and an excellent pianist - classically trained.  It's a rare treat seeing and hearing her in her youth. She was a beauty.

  • This video is so charming. Hildegarde was lovely, like a sweet little bird, both in her beauty and her singing voice.

  • Bravo! That was a great little song, and she looked cute. :)

  • more more more... I just adore her !

  • I believe her name was Hildegarde Szell and was from Milwaukee. She went to Europe and became an especially big star in France before coming back to the US and becoming a star here, tho I don't think ever as big as she was in Europe.

  • a little pre-code ditty... great

    who was she please?

  • It says right at the beginning; "Hildegarde" was her name.

  • She was not Hildegard Kneff,oder?Great music.

  • She was a great gift to the 20th Century. I was fortunate to meet her and hear her sing at the Russian Tea Room NYC in the early 1990's,...and yes, she was wearing her full length white gloves.

  • What an interesting light touch on the piano. This was very sweet...great vid showing her technique. thx!! 5*

  • Great Star - she plays a good Piano.......

  • This is Hildegarde Neff? I remember her from the 40s. She was a lot more sophisticated later. No wonder my dad was nuts about her.

  • No, this is another singer, simply called "Hildegarde", see other videos from the 1970's.

  • jozefsterkens: OK. Nice!

  • No, her full name was Hildegarde Loretta Sell (no "z" in the last name, as RRaquello stated above), and she was born in Wisconsin in 1906. She just died in 2005.

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