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Dar alto Lied

English translation: Das alte Lied

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English term or phrase:Dar alto Lied
Selected answer:Das alte Lied

07:17 Mar 21, 2012
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2012-03-25 05:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Music / name of a song
English term or phrase: Dar alto Lied
we sat on the counter, sang by ourselves and sent in requests for favorites like “Ave Maria,” “Dar alto Lied” and “Always.” Those were the best times.
Shirley Fan
Local time: 23:15
Das alte Lied
Explanation:
This is the name of a song (misspelled here). In English it is called 'That Dear Old Song' but I would leave it in the original.

Music by Henry Love Lyrics by Fritz Löhner-Beda. It was included in the soundtrack to the film The Third Man with Orson Welles.
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William Murphy
Italy
Local time: 17:15
Grading comment
thank you!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +8Das alte Lied
William Murphy


Discussion entries: 2





  

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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +8
dar alto lied
Das alte Lied


Explanation:
This is the name of a song (misspelled here). In English it is called 'That Dear Old Song' but I would leave it in the original.

Music by Henry Love Lyrics by Fritz Löhner-Beda. It was included in the soundtrack to the film The Third Man with Orson Welles.


    Reference: http://books.google.it/books?id=mgVhAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA813&lpg=PA...
William Murphy
Italy
Local time: 17:15
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marta Maslowska: I've just found the same thing. It does fit.
1 min
  -> Thanks.
agree  Noni Gilbert Riley: Aha! The capitalizing should be as you write.
2 mins
  -> Thanks. Yes, nouns are capitalized in German.
agree  Tony M: Looks like it might be a scanno in the original.
4 mins
agree  Jenni Lukac (X): I suspect that Tony is right.
28 mins
agree  Rowan Morrell
33 mins
agree  P.L.F. Persio
54 mins
agree  Charles Davis
1 hr
agree  writeaway: again a bit of research does the trick (knowing a little bit of German makes one immediately aware of the typo aspect)
2 hrs
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