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popular music song

"Answer Me" is a popular song, originally titled "Mütterlein", with German lyrics by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch.

"Mütterlein" was published on 19 April English lyrics were written by Carl Sigman, and the song was published as "Answer Me" in New York on 13 October ^[1] Contemporary recordings of the English lyric by Frankie Laine and David Whitfield both topped the UK Singles Chart in ^[2]

"Mütterlein"

Mütterlein, an old-fashioned term of endearment for a mother in German, was the title used by Gerhard Winkler for a song marking his mother's 75th birthday in The first artist to record it was Leila Negra, and there were also versions in Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian.

Fred Rauch later wrote new German lyrics, and titled it "Glaube Mir (Believe Me)". This version sold half a million copies for Wolfgang Sauer, a singer and pianist.^[3]

"Answer Me"

Sigman originally wrote his English lyrics as a religi