Lupe Vélez - Mi Amado (1929)

Описание: Mi Amado
Lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young, music by Harry Warren
Sung by Lupe Vélez
Recorded March 30, 1929
Victor 21932

The song "Mi Amado" was Harry Warren's first song written for a motion picture "The Wolf Song" starring Lupe Velez and Gary Cooper. The film was released on March 30 1929, the same day that this recording was made. The production was a silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects. An incomplete print of the film exists in the Library of Congress film archive (the film's soundtrack is presumed lost).

A brief synopsis of the film:
In 1840, Sam Lash (Gary Cooper) heads west for adventure. He meets up with some mountain men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he meets Lola (Lupe Vélez), a beautiful Mexican girl from a proud and rich family. They fall in love and he persuades her to elope with him. After they get married, Sam is torn between his love for Lola and his yearn for travelin'.

There are only two known recordings of Lupe Vélez. The other was "Where is the Song of Songs for Me" on the flip side of this record which I have already posted on my channel :    • Lupe Vélez - Where is the Song of Songs fo...  

MI AMADO

Every little heart is wrapped around
A quaint little love song.
A song of bliss, a song of bliss.
But my lonely heart went out and found
Its own little love song.
It goes like this, it goes like this.

My beloved of the mountains, you’re as mighty as the mountains.
So I whisper to you tenderly, “I need you, Mi Amado.”
You have eyes that shame the sunbeams. With the fire of the sunbeams.
So I whisper to you tenderly, “I want you, Mi Amado.”

Just like the dawning meets the morning. And wakes the world up with a song.
At a glance you seemed to make my lonely heart awake the day you came along.
Give me kisses dipped in moonlight, mid the romance of the moonlight.
While I whisper to you tenderly, “I love you, Mi Amado.”