"Golden Earrings" is a song composed by Victor Young, with lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, and introduced by Murvyn Vye in the 1947 Paramount film Golden Earrings.
It was a hit on the both sides of Atlantic as recorded by Peggy Lee.
Composition Reviewing Dinah Shore's version in October 1947, Billboard described "Golden Earrings" as a "dreamy gypsy melody".
As Philip Furia notes in his book American Song Lyricists, 1920-1960, "the melody of [the song]", "cast in the minor mode, and with altered second and seventh scale degrees", "has all the stereotypical markers of one intended to sound 'Jewish,' 'oriental,' or otherwise non-Western."
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