I think there are many reasons, but the ones I can see would be that a lot of women seem to fall for his cheesy act, and somehow think he is sensitive and romantic and all that. The fact is, although he is married, he admits to having thousands of sexual affairs with his fans, many of which probably had husbands and boyfriends themselves. Very few men would actually like someone who portrays themselves as “The King of Romance” yet in reality he is the exact opposite. Romance is giving yourself fully to a woman that you are in love with, not hopping from town to town seeing how many one night stands you can accumulate.
This is a 12 year old thread. Nobody cares about Humperdinck, either then or now.
Welcome to the SDMB, thewordwise. This thread is more than 12 years old, and many of the participants are no longer posting here – which isn’t a problem, just wanted to give you a heads up that you may or may not get a response.
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Mmmmm – Zombie Englebert Humperdinck!
To answer the (very old) OP – it’s because they hate operas based on fairy tales
It was wrong twelve years ago, though, to liken Humperdinck to Tom Jones in any way. Bill Shatner : Tom Jones, now there is an interesting degree of similarity worth being discussed.
And he CHOSE that name - he was born Arnold George Dorsey :eek:!!!
I always assumed such an atrocious name was his given name. Since I never forgot his name after hearing it for the first time, I suppose it’s obvious why he chose that one. I thank the zombification of this thread just because I learned that factoid.
And I dunno that I hate him. I wouldn’t listen to him for his fine artistry, but I have inherited Christmas records with him on it that I haven’t sold.
“Les bicyclettes de Belsize…”
Wait, I’m not alone? You HEARD me singing that? No, that wasn’t me, it was-
Oh, look, what’s that over there? (Running…)
Okay, you caught me. What can I say? My Mom loved him, and played his records a lot when I was a kid. I actually still like some of them.
Besides, it’s not like I was perceived as cool BEFORE admitting that!
Sez you. 
I hate this thread because it made me think of Englebert Humperdinck.
I resent that all of you are forcing me to explain this to a group of people who claim to be about “fighting ignorance.”
- Tom Jones is an avatar of Elvis in his Stage Aspect.
- Englebert Humperdinck is wholly a lifeless, soulless, construct of the anti-Elvis (Michael J. Fox).
Prince Humperdinck was no winner either.
Going out on a limb here: I like Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones.
I can understand how their singing puts some people off, but I like listening to smarmy lounge music or steaming hot sex songs occasionally. I wouldn’t want to listen to them all the time, but then I don’t want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart all the time, either.
Good singing is good singing, and EH has a fine voice. Such things will never go out of style.
Speak for yourself :o
I have three Englebert tunes on my ipod (I’d have more but there’s not many available)and never pass up a chance to sing a rousing rendition of “My Wife the Dancer” whenever the boyfriend and I are having a Tom Jones / Englebert debate.
Him: What a wanker
Me: At least Englebert didn’t stuff a fake weenie down his pants
Him: No, he just stuffed real weenies up his arse
lather , rinse , repeat
I was all like, there can’t be another Humperdink lover! One is more than enough for all of the internets.
But then I saw that there isn’t another. dee remains singular in her Hump loving dink.
Yeah, but you’ve got to understand - he had his country’s 500th anniversary to plan, his wedding to arrange, his wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; he was just swamped.
Perhaps it’s the dinky name?
What am I, chopped liver? :dubious:
This thread has just prompted me to visit youtube and play his version of ‘Ten Guitars’ again. Great tune. I’d not join his fanclub, or buy a concert ticket (is he dead yet?) or, in fact, admit to anybody’s face that I listen to him from time to time…but he’s in the category of ‘guilty pleasure’.
For the record, I am a man. Or rather, I’m male. Obviously, I’m not a man - I listen to Engelbert…
Well, looking at iTunes, they seem to have over 20 albums available.
I heard about him but I will always remember how he was parodied in the TV special A Claymation Easter.
The main characters were swallowed by a shark and to escape one of the bunnies makes a devastating recreation of “Please Release Me”. It ended in tears and the shark spitting them as planned