"Mad About The Boy" - Greta Keller !

[torresongs2]

I've been looking for a version of this song that includes the opening verse. It's very unusual to hear it. Greta Keller's is one of the few that includes it. Her version is about as close to the original Noel Coward chart as you can get. Perfect!

[BjdacH]

Very COOL pictures!!!

[WorldView50]

My absolute favourite version of this song. delightful. thanx

[gfks11]

I LOVE this song and this version is cool too, her german accent is not too miss... anyway,,,an excellent video!

[terryclary]

Great music and wonderful pictures.......thank you Judie for sharing......... Terry

[bearcub410]

this is heaven , i love gretta keller

[Holleybe]

This is a fantastic version with the elegant intro verse....

"Manners too meticulous?"  Love her low contralto!

[hollbri]

i give 5 stars.wonderful times we has when frau keller was appearing at the algonquin hotel new york.she was a legend.

[AveMontaigne]

Jerzy, another treasure!! Thanks for sharing Keller's wonderful artistry with us ... do you know when this particular recording was made?

[jurek46pink]

I think 1956/7.

There are still 3 songs from that LP

on my channel; under common title:

"In a Midnight Mood".

Thank you.

[MsCasati]

so beautiful

[sam0822]

This is absolutely beautiful and makes me cry xx

[AntinousIsGod1]

Such a sweet song. I just found out about her today through reading about her lavender marriage to David Bacon. Such a beautiful man he was and she was such a great singer. Marlene Dietrich copied her singing from Greta Keller. Such an inspiration :).

Howard Hughes is burning in hell for killing David.

RIP David and RIP Greta.

[jurek46pink]

Best, Autumnal greetings from Poland !

jp

[AntinousIsGod1]

Thankyou :). I'm part Polish myself :P hehe.

Best Autumnal greetings from Australia!

[johnmaccabee]

Thank you for introducing me to this version of the song.

[Iakoiakuna]

Just fantastic!!

[sisalrug]

Just when I feel the itch to find a great new singer to listen to, the you-tube miracle happens. What a magnificent singer! Whoa! Goosebumps...

[jurek46pink]

One of my Mistresses here - will appear again, some day !

[princeandrey]

My heart is gladdened by Madame Keller's exquisite interpretation. Jurek, you are to be commended for your marvelous montage; not just the standard heart-throbs but a whole, delicious panoply of males. So thoughtful and artistic: bravo!

[jurek46pink]

My GRAND Merci !

[bigcity233]

JUST GREAT! I have an instrumental recording of this song by Ray Noble's London dance orchestra (around 1934) which is very good. But this recording is truly exceptional.

[jurek46pink]

Thank you - I have also this schellac - His Master's Voice.

[CarlinWilkowski]

Charming. Her voice is just perfect for this song.

[kellilynn125]

great photos

[rialtobaby]

You've made a beautiful piece of work here, constantly moving and surprising, thanks a million for posting it !

[saxondog2001]

You are so right! This is wonderful.

Hey .. was the picture of the dark-haired guy in the white tank top --- Charles Buddy Rogers?

Also .. Greta, to my mind, sounded like Marlene Dietrich, if Marlene could have carried a tune. :)

Thanks!

[jurek46pink]

I do not think it is him. I tried to use photos of "unknown men", except for the very last one - with a pipe: young Victor Staal.

I am pleased with your reception, thanks.

J.

[rgsfield]

If you see a Buddy Rogers photo from about 1930 the resemblance is pretty striking. What a handsome fellow he was, even late in life-

[otazay]

Greta Keller's rendition - sheer genius. And the slideshow of assorted bon bons - sheer delight!

[Stevend2be]

Very nice,

Ggreetings,

Steven

[schwulemann]

Delicious!

[chocolatebobka]

Learned such songs at my mother's knee and have a life-long fixation on such; still, I've never heard this. It's masterful! Keller's perfect English diction minus the Gertrude Lawrence high frivolity, German expressionism instead, are wonderful, irresistible! better than--and less high camp than--La Dietrich herself! And yes, love those--mad about those boys! Thanks to you, whoever you are...

[jurek46pink]

I am Jerzy (George), from Poland...:)

[randallabrum]

I thoroughly enjoyed the vintage pictures so evocative of the period which you posted with the smoky, world weary version of this marvelous song.

[78timothy]

Ich habt dieses lied auf US Capitol 78rpm zwei Platten von Frances Fay und Noel Coward (HMV) So schoen!

[grai]

This really catches what the song is about - other interpretations emphasise the great melody and clever lyrics - but she brings manages to show how layered the various meanings of it are

[Georgewos]

I wonder if Noel Coward was looking at some of these pictures when He wrote this song. Some people think He had Cary Grant in mind when He wrote this song but I read it was someone else but I can't remember who.

[MuzzyVanH]

Mr. Coward's inspiration could have been so very many, a look at Hollywood of the 20's & 30's makes that clear. I've heard that 'the boy' who drove Noel Coward 'mad' was Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Keller is wonderful, she is the voice we hear in film CABARET singing a song from the B'way version, effectively featured in the film played on a victrola called "Heiraten"/ "Married". The one small disappointment to me is here "Mad About the Boy" ends in a major mode rather than the minor it's written in.

[jurek46pink]

You have found "major mode"at the end, great ! Perhaps they wanted to introduce that way a little... optimism...?

[tootles4u]

This is the absolute best version of this song that I have ever heard...she invokes the smokey nightclubs of the 30's and a touch of Marlene Dietrich....and her phrasing is absolutely stunning!!!Wow!...thanks for posting this....

[AulicExclusiva]

Superb. I love her smokey accent.

And "Merrihew" has posted the composer, Noël Coward's, own version.

[rstephen52]

I didn't know Greta Keller ever performed this song. It is a wonderful interpretation with unbelievably flawless phrasing and thsnk God the piano is the only accompaniment to the other "instrument" on this recording, which is her extraordinary voice. And the photos of all these gorgeous, zany and sometimes dangerous male "hunks" of yesteryear are wonderful!!

[jurek46pink]

Thank you, I remember I was doing it with care and heart (!).

[tHEnOOSEsWING]

My favourite video *.5stars

[saltburner2]

Thanks so much for posting this. I had no idea her English diction was so perfect!

In England the version by the great Elizabeth Welch [whom I once met] was probably the best-known.

[tiamacheta]

Impressive and expressive voice! Wise choice of photos. Excellent, as always.

Thanks!

[kspm01]

Impressive version indeed, thanks a lot for sharing!

[camille885]

I love this song! The first time what I hear it with just a piano and a voice. What a voice!

And nice pictures :)

Thanks

[dzheger]

Nice sultry singing; lovely photos of boys one can be mad about (some, anyway).

[jurek46pink]

I cared for ...a wider scope of choice...;)

[zrinski]

What a version :) Exquisite.....

[merrihew]

Coward recorded this as well.

[jeannevdb]

Beautiful song written by (gay) Noel Coward for his young lover. You are right, this interpretation is sublime!

[jurek46pink]

And I hear about two Noel's "heroes" of that number: Cary Grant or...Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Hope they were not both...?...:)

[tHEnOOSEsWINGS]

I really loved all the pictures and Greta Keller is great. And the hats looked very funny. JP, who is the man in the last picture.

[jurek46pink]

I wish I knew myself. Let's call: my alter ego (in my imagination !)

:))

[parlophonman]

Fantasie ist Schoner als die Wirklichkeit!

Its the German Actor Viktor Staal.

[jurek46pink]

Ach, D...., thank you.

Too much for one sunny, beautiful day.

(It's not V.S.)

[parlophonman]

It is VIKTOR STAAL!!

[jurek46pink]

"Zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit" (M.T.)

[parlophonman]

Na, was hab ich Dir gesagt??

[jurek46pink]

O.K.: you, Parlophonman, were right : Viktor Staal !

[parlophonman]

Thanks Mr.46 !