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Lyr/Tune Req: Valentino

09 Jun 00 - 09:09 AM (#240337)
Subject: Lyrics and music required Help
From: GUEST,Tracy "Final Straw"

I'm trying to find the complete lyrics to a song I heard a long time ago before I'd been converted to the joys of Folk. I can only remember the first few bars, but now that I sing in a group myself I would love to hear the song again with a view to singing it myself. Does anyone remember the lyrics:-

There on a dresser, A faded old picture, of one Valentino who'd stolen my heart.

Tracy

09 Jun 00 - 07:29 PM (#240596)
Subject: RE: Lyrics and music required Help
From: The Shambles

It's not Antonio and his ice cream cart, is it?

10 Jun 00 - 02:56 AM (#240711)
Subject: RE: Lyrics and music required Help
From: Brendy

Sounds a bit like 'Margarita' by Harvey Andrews.
Although to the best of my knowledge, Harvey didn't mention Valentino

10 Jun 00 - 05:00 AM (#240723)
Subject: RE: Lyrics and music required Help
From: GUEST,Tracy "Final Straw"

No to both suggestions the ice-cream van suggestion would have the kids running in the opposite direction I expect. Who was it that said "Now we're going to have some folk music, so prepare yourself for six minutes of abject misery" Anyway as for the one by Harvey Andrews, no, it was sung by a woman. I think it'll probably fox most people because I've got a feeling that she changed her name.

Tracy

06 Nov 04 - 10:07 AM (#1318778)
Subject: Lyr Add: VALENTINO
From: GUEST,neil fraser

Here are words as I remember them.

06 Nov 04 - 10:24 AM (#1318790)
Subject: RE: Lyrics and music required Help
From: katlaughing

Well done, Neil! Do you have a title for it?

Thanks,

kat

20 Nov 04 - 07:12 AM (#1333418)
Subject: RE: Lyr & music required Help (Picture of Valentino)
From: GUEST,Sihaya

The song is called 'Valentino"

I've heard it on "The Celtic Chillout Album" and fell for that song immediately.

Sihaya

30 Oct 08 - 07:49 PM (#2480387)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Valentino
From: GUEST

I have been informed by fairly reliable source that the song was written by Chris rohmann , not sure if any one can confirm.

30 Oct 08 - 09:26 PM (#2480446)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Valentino
From: cptsnapper

I've dug out my copy of Joanna Carlin's album " Fancy That " on which the song is credited to P. Phillips

31 Oct 08 - 09:33 AM (#2480811)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Valentino
From: Mr Red

Melanie Harrold wrote a song about Rudolf Valentino

As she put it - at the Trowbridge Folk Festival c 1976

a speedy guy suggested she wrote a song about him because of the film that came out about then with Rudolf Neureyev in the lead role.

06 Jan 13 - 11:31 AM (#3462122)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Valentino
From: GUEST

Thanks CPT

Finally found the link on Pamela Phillips Oland website.
http://www.pamoland.com/catalog/

also now on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95FLcDQMEE

Don't know why I had Chris Rohmann in mind though there is a link to Joanna through Jasper Carrott.

10 Jan 13 - 11:29 AM (#3463982)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Valentino
From: GUEST,Steve W

On the Joanna Carlin album Fancy That on Valentino - guitar is played by Bristol Guitarist Steve Payne

03 Feb 14 - 05:26 PM (#3598022)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Valentino
From: GUEST,Martin

Hi Tracy how did you get on I had this on cassette when it first came out been trying to obtain a copy of the album.Valentino was such a great sad song

19 Feb 19 - 06:30 PM (#3977860)
Subject: Lyr Add: VALENTINO (Pamela Phillips Oland)
From: GUEST,Pamela Phillips Oland

VALENTINO
Words and Music by Pamela Phillips Oland

There on her dresser, a faded old picture
Of one, Valentino, who'd stolen her heart
He had escorted her once to a premiere
Of something in which she had played a small part

Hollywood gossips reported them lovers
But they would write anything if they were paid
And he went on to being a big movie star
But she never made the grade

CHORUS:        And so she lived within her mind
She loved him till the day she died
And in her dreams he ran slow-motion toward her
With his arms open wide

Oh how she lived within her mind
She dreamd of how they danced and dined
She ran the reel again and again
Playing her lines as she did then

She earned a living by waiting on tables
She worked on the swing shift for thirty-five years
And ev'ry Christmas they gave her a bonus
She drowned all her sorrows in mem'ries and beers

And on his birthday she'd pay him a visit
And lovingly placed flowers there on his grave
And she never once let any other man take her
None did she ever crave

CHORUS:        Because she lived within her mind
She loved him till the day she died
And in her dreams he ran slow motion towards her
With his arms open wide

Oh how she lived within her mind
She dreamed of how they danced and dined
She ran the reel again and again
Playing her lines as she did then

There on the beach on a soft windy evening
A couple were strolling along in the sand
There near the water a woman was lying
A dried old carnation was crushed in her hand

There on the beach where he loved to go walking
She'd fallen to dreaming his arms held her tight
And her face wore a trace of a bittersweet smile
That faded into the night

CHORUS:        Oh yes she'd lived within her mind
She loved him till the day she died
And in her dreams he ran slow motion towards her
With his arms open wide

Oh how she lived within her mind
She dreamed of how they danced and dined
She ran the reel again and again
Playing her lines as she did then

© Pam-O-Land Music (ASCAP)

22 Feb 19 - 04:32 PM (#3978429)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Valentino
From: Jim Dixon

In case anyone is looking for another song about Rudolph Valentino, there's one called THERE'S A NEW STAR IN HEAVEN TONIGHT. Lyrics have been posted here.