FASCINATION (Marchetti, Féraudy) - Mantovani and his Orchestra - Decca SKL 4067

’Fascination’ is a popular waltz song  written in 1904/05 with music by Fermo Dante Marchetti and lyrics by Maurice de Féraudy. It was first published in Hamburg by Anton J. Benjamin and in Paris by F. D. Marchetti in 1904 in a version for piano solo. As a song with de Féraudy’s words, it was first performed by the French music-hall singer Paulette Darty, in 1905, and published the same year. This Mantovani recording comes from a London/Decca 12 inch vinyl LP titled ’More Mantovani Film Encores’ released in October 1959. (SKL 4067).