Listen: Pink Martini releases song with ‘blonde bombshell’ Mamie Van Doren, 93 — ‘I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out!’

Published 3:30 pm Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Pink Martini will begin the North American leg of its 30th anniversary tour 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17 at McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale.

They’ll have a newly released song in the repertoire.

It’s called “I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out!,” a 1947 song, and it features longtime actress Mamie Van Doren. The band and Van Doren recorded the song in 2021 when she was 90 years old.

It’ll be released on 7-inch vinyl Nov. 1. Listen to it here.

The B-side for the single, “Ich dich liebe” was originally sung by Van Doren in the spaghetti western “Freddy und das Lied Prärie” in 1964. It was originally released on the Pink Martini album “Get Happy” with China Forbes on vocals.

The upcoming tour includes two nights at Hollywood Bowl (Aug. 23-24), a concert at Symphony Hall in Boston on the actual 30th anniversary of the band (Oct. 13) and a night at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (Oct. 14).

Forbes will be on tour with the band, and Edna Vazquez will be the guest singer. Pink Martini recently performed shows in Europe with Forbes and Storm Large.

Pink Martini has collaborated with a lot of famous people, including Phyllis Diller, Jimmy Scott, Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, Jane Powell, Rufus Wainwright, Gus Van Sant, the original cast of “Sesame Street” and Portland Youth Philharmonic.

Now 93, Van Doren was an actress, singer, model and “blonde bombshell” sex symbol of the 1950s and ‘60s. She was a contemporary of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.

The song “I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out!” was originally recorded and released by Woody Herman and His Orchestra, and it was subsequently recorded by other musicians, including Anita O’Day.

For tickets to Saturday’s show: edgefieldconcerts.com.