552. Stout-Hearted Men (Romberg and Hammerstein)

This song comes from an operetta called "The New Moon", with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The show was the third and last in a string of Broadway hits for Romberg, following The Desert Song (1924) and The Student Prince (1925). It opened on Broadway in September, 1928 and closed in December 1929 after running for 519 performances. MGM made two films based on the show, one in 1930, starring Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett and another in 1940 starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.This is one of a series of videos my wife shot when the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir was invited to the 20th wedding anniversary of choir member, Tony Wong, and his wife, Gidget, a party at the Hong Kong Bankers' Club. This is not a concert performance, and there were a lot of other things going on, but it is a chance to see the choir in party mode, at a time when the rule about no drinking before a performance didn't apply!

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: raymondcrooke

Length: 02:16
Rating: 5.00
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