# Help Me Find 1940s Song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 1, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-1940s-song/739111 "2015-12-01T13:51:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-1940s-song/739111/1 "2015-12-01T13:51:14Z")

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I was listening to an oldies radio station-they played a song that I had heard before, but they never announced the the name of the song, nor the artist. One of the verses began with “Mantizell, when violins played”-that’s all i remember. does anybody know what it might be? My Google search yielded nothing.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-1940s-song/739111/2 "2015-12-01T14:00:33Z")

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Googling “Mademoiselle, when violins played” doesn’t help either. Frank Sinatra’s “[Mamselle](http://www.metrolyrics.com/mamselle-lyrics-frank-sinatra.html)” may be it, though.

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-1940s-song/739111/3 "2015-12-01T14:03:27Z")

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I think you’ve got the wrong lyrics, or it almost certainly would come up in a search. Even discounting “Mantizell”, which sounds like nonsense (doesn’t produce a single hit either), a search on “when violins played” doesn’t appear to include any song lyrics.

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**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-1940s-song/739111/4 "2015-12-01T16:31:16Z")

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Long shot guess, but could it be “Sway” (actually from 1953), which has the lyrics “When we sway…” - possibly what you heard as “Mantizell” - followed shortly by “I can hear the sound of violins” ?

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**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-1940s-song/739111/5 "2015-12-01T18:47:32Z")

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> Googling “Mademoiselle, when violins played” doesn’t help either. Frank Sinatra’s “[Mamselle](http://www.metrolyrics.com/mamselle-lyrics-frank-sinatra.html)” may be it, though.

Thanks, it was “Mamsell”.