Answer Me, My Love

About Answer Me, My Love

"Answer Me, My Love" is a popular song, originally titled "Mütterlein" with German lyrics, by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch. The English lyrics were written by Carl Sigman in 1953. Sigman originally wrote it as a religious-themed song, "Answer Me" (in which the first line reads "Answer me, Lord above"), as a question posed to God about why the singer has lost his lover. This version of the song became a joint number 1 hit for both Frankie Laine and David Whitfield in the United Kingdom in November 1953, the only time in UK chart history that two versions of the same song tied at the top. However, the BBC banned the song because of its "religious" lyrics, and Sigman rewrote them to address the lost lover directly, under the title "Answer Me, My Love". Whitfield then re-recorded the number with the new lyrics so as to get BBC air-plays. Both his versions have appeared on CD. Laine went back into the studios of Columbia Records and recorded "Answer Me, My Love", which was released in the UK but failed to overtake the original; many considered that this was due to the poor quality of the backing which lacked the "atmosphere" of the original Paul Weston arrangement. more »