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Austrian song

"Just a Gigolo" is a popular song, adapted by Irving Caesar into English in from the Austrian tango "Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo", composed in in Vienna by Leonello Casucci to lyrics written in by Julius Brammer.^[1][2]

History

The song was first published by Wiener Boheme Verlag in and performed by several orchestras in Germany that year, including Dajos Béla's orchestra with the singer Kurt Mühlhardt.

Daniele Serra sang a version entitled "Gigolo" in Italy, followed by Sirio Di Piramo and his orchestra in , while other countries provided their own versions.^[3]

The original version is a poetic vision of the social collapse experienced in Austria after World War I, represented by the figure of a former hussar who remembers how he once paraded in his grand uniform while he is forced to support himself as a lonely, nameless hired dancer.

The music features a simple melodic sequence, but nonetheless has a cl