"Indian Love Call" (first published as "The Call") is a popular song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II.[1] Originally written for Mary Ellis,[2] the song achieved continued popularity under other artists and has been called Friml's best-remembered work.
The play takes place within the Canadian Rocky Mountains and features the sonorous tune in the overture and in Act One while the love interests call to each other per a supposed Aboriginal Canadian legend about how men would call down into the valley to the girls they wished to marry.[1][3] In most (or all) versions of Rose-Marie, including the best-known movie version, the tune is reprised several times throughout the narrative.[4]
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