Lupe Vélez - Where is the Song of Songs for Me? (1929)

"Where is the Song of Songs for me?"
Words and music by Irving Berlin
Sung by Lupe Vélez with unknown studio orchestra
Recorded March 30, 1929, New York
Victor 21932
From the film "Lady of the Pavements"
United Artists (1929)

Lupe Vélez made her mark in pictures as a seductress (she was known as the Mexican Spitfire). In 1929 she appeared in Lady of the Pavements, a sentimental costume romance in which she played a Spanish dancer in love with a Prussian aristocrat played by, of all people, William Boyd, better known as Hopalong Cassidy. D.W. Griffith directed this silent picture, which was hastily converted into sound, and Berlin's Where Is the Song of Songs for Me? and occasional dialogue were inserted.

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• Lupe Vélez
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• 1929
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• D. W. Griffith
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• Pavements
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• mexico
• waltz
• Spanish
• Velez
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• sentimental

[italiangerry]

donlemc,

The film is NOT lost. Only the orginal sound discs are lost. You can find the complete movie on dvd if you look hard.

[bsgs98]

@italiangerry I did state in the description that the sound track is lost. I have looked for the DVD and it is unavailable commercially for purchase or rental. There might be pirated copies out there though. Have you seen it?

[78timothy]

Lupe was a true entertainer and performer with more thalent than you see nowadays. She could sing, Dance, Act, both Drama (Cuban Love Song) and Comedy (Mexican Spitfire), she worked er way up in Hollywood, the old fashioned way, with determination and hard work. She is a credit to the Hispanic people. Although her life was short it was full, and she left a great legacy, that one can be proud of. Her picture at 1:00 is a perfect example of her true beauty. 5**** to you.

Vaya con Dios, Lupita.

[bsgs98]

Thanks Timothy for the background information on Lupe. This is the only known recording of her and the flip side "Mi Amado" from the film "The Wolf Song." She was a talented and beautiful woman indeed.

[kenembu]

LUPE VELEZ WAS A GREAT DIVA!

[librarybob1958]

@italiangerry It's interesting that her male lead in this film, back in his romantic leading man days, was none other than William Boyd, his iconic "Hopalong Cassidy" days still some years in the future. And her director, whose penultimate credited film this was, was the man who, to all intents and purposes, started it all: D.W. Griffith.

[italiangerry]

@bsgs98

You can find the film on eBay!

[italiangerry]

@bsgs98

It was shown on the Spanish television station TV2, with Spanish intertitles. Copies of that circulate. Yes, I have seen it and liked it immensely. It also played at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in 2009 and at the National Gallery in Washington in 2010.

[brotherjulius]

My mother had many 78 r.p.m. records but got rid of them in the Sixties.She kept one, this Velez record.However it is the otherside which is the gem "Mi Amado",a very catchy melody.I cannot remember who wrote it Brown?Burke?Freed?.I suppose we all know this,Lupe is mention in the first episode of"Frasier"(Ross refers to you know what!).

[ekocentric]

Thanx for posting this photo montage and song. I have never heard Lupe sing. She had a lovely voice...but then Hollywood used to require actors and actresses to have talent or be replaced quickly.

[donlemc]

Where is the song for me is from the film Lady of the Pavement 1929....The film is considered a lost film ,but what remains if it is in UCLA film repository for preservation Thought you should know...She was a great star

[pedodebruja]

this is super beautiful, makes me wanna cry

[walkergu]

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks i love Lupe Velez for ever!