who wrote dark eyes
Of the original melody author, Florian Hermann, not a single music score is known. The most renowned and played version of this song was written by Adalgiso Ferraris, and published, when still in Russia in 1910, with German editor Otto Kuhl, as Schwarze Augen (Black Eyes) .
Feodor Chaliapin also popularised the song abroad. Other versions include the 1941 recording of Ferraris' Dark Eyes played by Harry Parry and his radio sextet, and a very original interpretation, for electric guitar, played for years by Chet Atkins.