Hildegarde - For Me, For You (1935)

Performed by: Hildegarde
Full Song Title: For Me, For You
Recorded in: 1935
B-side re-recording of: • Hildegarde - Darling, ...
Old recording: • Hildegarde - For Me, F...
Gosh, I love this one, there's something about this song that brings comfort to my nostalgic heart. I hope it has the same effect on yours!
Hildegarde Loretta Sell (born February 1, 1906 - died July 29, 2005) was a popular American cabaret singer, well known for the song "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup".
Hildegarde Loretta Sell, was born in Adell, Wisconsin, in 1906 into a German-American family. When the Sells moved to Milwaukee, Hildegarde enrolled in the School of Music at Marquette University intending to become a concert pianist. But after seeing a Vaudeville act four women playing four baby grand pianos at the same time she decided to become an entertainer.
She joined a troupe of touring performers, playing the piano in the pit orchestra. Her life took another turn when she met Anna Sosenko in a New Jersey boardinghouse. Sosenko was a burgeoning songwriter, and for Hildegarde she wrote a bilingual ditty that would make the singer famous from coast to coast. In 1935, for Pathé Pictorial, Hildegarde went on-camera and recorded “Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup.”
At Sosenko’s suggestion, Hildegarde started wearing elegant gowns and shoulder length gloves when she performed. When the two undertook a European tour, Sosenko reported to newspapers back in the States that important people on the Continent had become enthralled by the American chanteuse. Suddenly Hildegarde was an international celebrity.
The leading columnist of the day, Walter Winchell, dubbed her “The Incomparable Hildegarde” and Eleanor Roosevelt would later call her “The First Lady of Supper Clubs.” She had a Top 10 radio show and traveled with her own orchestra. Her admirers included King Gustaf of Sweden and the Duke of Windsor.
By April 17, 1939, when Life magazine put her face on its cover, only one word was necessary Hildegarde.
During World War II, she scored another hit with an English-language cover of the 1939 German song "Lili Marlene" that had become a favorite of both Axis and Allied soldiers.
She was so popular that Revlon introduced a Hildegarde shade of lipstick and nail polish, and a nursery developed a Hildegarde Rose.
A young pianist, also from Milwaukee, went to see her often when she was playing the Empire Room at the Palmer House in Chicago. He admired her flashy entrances, flamboyant playing, and lavish costumes, and when he launched his career, he, too, went by just one name Liberace.
Endorsements and investments kept Hildegarde financially secure well after her fame had peaked, and a sense of humor must have helped to keep her healthy. “Miss Piggy got the gloves idea from me,” she joked. During a lifetime that lasted just six months short of a hundred years, Hildegarde never married, but she left a rich showbiz legacy that many performers continue to draw from today.
She died at age 99 in a hospital in Manhattan on July 29, 2005, of natural causes.
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Stu
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... and I love to come here again for watching this lovely clip ❤️👍🏻😀

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Thank you for introducing Hildegard for me 👍🏻😃 A lovely discovery 👌

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What a beautiful voice.

[@tiga4180]

Just gorgeous & thanks for the bio notes & clips from the film. I first saw Hildegarde in the Henry Hall film 'Music Hath Charms'