"HINDUSTAN" - Campbell and Burr (1918)

HINDUSTAN (Tenor Duet, Orchestra Accompaniment)
(Oliver Wallace and Harold Weeks)
Sung by Campbell and Burr
Columbia, A2661 (78015), 1918.
Please watch at 480p for better picture quality!
The sheet music for "Hindustan" was published in 1918. Several early recordings can be found on RUclips, the earliest of which is the lively, "jazzy" instrumental version recorded by the Joseph C. Smith Orchestra for the Victor Talking Machine Co. in July 1918. This Campbell and Burr version, which features the full lyrics, was recorded a few weeks later for Columbia.

[@goombabear]

I heard this in Poirot's " Murder in the Mews." Its very exotic.

[@joanaferreira7214]

do you know where i can find the version that is sang on Poirot? so beautiful with the femenine voice

[@thisismyname5734]

@@joanaferreira7214 ruskin moya is the singer in the episode, but i can't find it either :(

[@sabhinavsinha]

Also, Pagan Love Song. The listings are here www.imdb.com/title/tt0676156/soundtrack

[@cleaningagent101]

If you're referring to this version of this song, it's not exotic. Exotic is for something foreign or that seems foreign. This music is as western as it gets. It's just old

[@thomasprice9256]

@@cleaningagent101 The version they're discussing in that Poirot episode was done in a very early-1900s "exotic" style (playing on Western orientalist ideas of what that meant).

[@kennymuz]

great tunes. thanks for sharing !!!

[@XxxkenzaxxX]

Is that an anachronism I spot? In the picture at 1:18 again, it looks like a crimson car in the background... of a colonial period picture set in Morocco, how very curious. Haha, I'm very sorry about saying so much, I sometimes have a tendancy to ramble.

[@XxxkenzaxxX]

Thanks so much for posting! Lovely pictures too :) Though I do believe the one at 1:18 might be in Morocco rather than India... but it's still a great illustration so that doesn't matter. Whenever I hear an early 1900s recording, I'm always amazed at how the technology back then, it seems so very long ago but it really isn't. Would you happen to own the lyrics by any chance?

[@sumanmishra123]

Yes that is Morocco, if the Fez Hats are anything to go by

[@68halima]

Don't think it's Morocco,- I would say it's Egypt as there's a British officer and it's obviously from the 1930's. The style of clothing is Egyptian rather than Moroccan.

[@XxxkenzaxxX]

@abendstunde49 Actually, nevermind, I found them somewhere else, but thanks anyway :)

[@sumanmishra123]

where did you find the lyrics. thanks in advance :)

[@sway-z9182]

tom brier brought me here

[@sethbarry8811]

Same