Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur (MS2011-3222-019)
Dublin Core
Title
Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur (MS2011-3222-019)
Alternative Title
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Subject
Description
French language song text from VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222-019 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Pp. 35-36.
Strophic song; two verses, one refrain after first verse.
“Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur” [“Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur”; “It is a Charming Secret in My Heart”] is a transcription of Roméo Beaudry’s French-language setting of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” a popular American song with music by Leo Friedman (1869-1927) and lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson (1879-1930). Published in 1910, the original song was a huge hit for the Peerless Quartet in 1911.
In Quebec, Montreal songwriter, composer, pianist, and recording studio owner/producer Roméo Beaudry took Friedman’s music and paired it with a set of original lyrics under the title “Laisse-moi te dire.” Beaudry (1882-1932) was, along with his friend Herbert Berliner, the most important producer of Canadian artists in the first half of the 20th century. During the 1920s, Beaudry’s Montreal-based Starr label (a division of the Compo label) produced 693 francophone records, featuring almost every great name in Quebec lyric, folk and variety song with equal success. He also produced songs with original lyrics and melodies as well as French-language translation of popular American hits of the era. In 1926, popular Montreal lyric baritone Hercule Lavoie recorded a version of Beaudry’s setting on the Compo label (Issue # 152761; matrix # 2131): http://amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone-bin/Main/ItemDisplay?l=0&l_ef_l=-1&id=875732.456847&v=1&lvl=1&coll=24&rt=1&itm=31398107
Strophic song; two verses, one refrain after first verse.
“Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur” [“Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur”; “It is a Charming Secret in My Heart”] is a transcription of Roméo Beaudry’s French-language setting of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” a popular American song with music by Leo Friedman (1869-1927) and lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson (1879-1930). Published in 1910, the original song was a huge hit for the Peerless Quartet in 1911.
In Quebec, Montreal songwriter, composer, pianist, and recording studio owner/producer Roméo Beaudry took Friedman’s music and paired it with a set of original lyrics under the title “Laisse-moi te dire.” Beaudry (1882-1932) was, along with his friend Herbert Berliner, the most important producer of Canadian artists in the first half of the 20th century. During the 1920s, Beaudry’s Montreal-based Starr label (a division of the Compo label) produced 693 francophone records, featuring almost every great name in Quebec lyric, folk and variety song with equal success. He also produced songs with original lyrics and melodies as well as French-language translation of popular American hits of the era. In 1926, popular Montreal lyric baritone Hercule Lavoie recorded a version of Beaudry’s setting on the Compo label (Issue # 152761; matrix # 2131): http://amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone-bin/Main/ItemDisplay?l=0&l_ef_l=-1&id=875732.456847&v=1&lvl=1&coll=24&rt=1&itm=31398107
Abstract
Suitor yearns to spill the secret of his love to his sweetheart.
Source
VFC2006-0002 Beaudoin Family Collection. MS2011-3222 Eva Lacourse Songbook. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Song Item Type Metadata
Supplied Title
Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur
Tranlsated Title
It is a Charming Secret in My Heart
First Line
Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur
Composer
Friedman, Leo
Lyricist
Beaudry, Roméo
Whitson, Beth Slater
Transcription
1
Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur
Don’t laveur feraispourtant mon bonheur
J’ai voulu aussi te dire
Ce que mon ame desire
Mais en te voyant sourire
J’avais peur
Refrain
Laisse moi te dire
Le secret brulant
Que je garde cache
Depuis si longtemp
Laisse moi te faire
Laveu de l’amour
Que j’ai pour toi
Dans mon coeur
Depuis toujour
2
J’ai cru lire un peu despoir
En tes yeux
Ecoutera tu ce soir mon aveu
Alors ne soit pas cruelle
Car l’amour qui nous appelle
Nous fera la vie plus belle
Si tu veut
Fin
Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur
Don’t laveur feraispourtant mon bonheur
J’ai voulu aussi te dire
Ce que mon ame desire
Mais en te voyant sourire
J’avais peur
Refrain
Laisse moi te dire
Le secret brulant
Que je garde cache
Depuis si longtemp
Laisse moi te faire
Laveu de l’amour
Que j’ai pour toi
Dans mon coeur
Depuis toujour
2
J’ai cru lire un peu despoir
En tes yeux
Ecoutera tu ce soir mon aveu
Alors ne soit pas cruelle
Car l’amour qui nous appelle
Nous fera la vie plus belle
Si tu veut
Fin
Files
Collection
Citation
“Il est un secret charmant dans mon coeur (MS2011-3222-019),” Vermont Folklife Center Digital Collections, accessed October 17, 2024, https://vtfolklifearchive.org/collections/items/show/864.
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