1/2 - Lilian Harvey & Oskar Karlweis - Hallo Du süsse Frau! (1930 - Die Drei von der Tankstelle)
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Continuing our journey through the multilingual movie production of the early 1930's, I would like to present a song from the legendary movie "Die Drei von der Tankstelle". The song is called "Hallo Du süsse Frau!" (Hello sweet lady) and is performed by Leading lady Lilian Harvey and comedian Oskar Karlweis. It is a somewhat overlooked number from this musical comededy, which his hardly surprising since "Ein freund, ein guter Freund" and "Liebling, mein Herz lässt Dich grüssen" are the best remembered today and enjoy cult status."Die Drei von der Tankstelle" (US title : Three good friends) was a revolutionary musical that influenced musical making greatly. For the first time music was used as a part of the movie's action (as opposed to musical numbers stopping the movie dead in its tracks). And the leading characters were not kings, queens or princes but relatively normal people who were suffering from the great depression. The female lead, Anglo-German Lilian Harvey (1906-1968) was undoubtedly the greatest European movie star at that time... She would star simultaneaously in German, French and English versions of her movies. She worked with Willy Fritsch, her "steady" partner in German productions, Henry Garat, being his equivalent in French productions. She also starred with Charles Boyer and Laurence Olivier in his first movie (The temporary widow/Hokus Pokus - 1930). In 1933 she left for Hollywood but her movies made at Fox (and one for Columbia) proved to be a disappointment and - after walking out of "George White's Scandals (which made ALice Faye a star)- she eventually returned to Germany in 1935, starring in Schwarze Rosen/Les roses noires/Black Roses (aka Did I betray?). She continued to make succesful movies for UFA until 1939 ("Glückskinder/Les gais lurons" and "Sieben Ohrfeigen" most notably). Increasingly ill at ease in Germany she left for France in 1939 where she starred in 2 further movies : "Sérénade" and "Miquette". As war came to France she went to the USA and settled down in Hollywood hoping to continue her career. She never filmed again. She did work for the red cross as well as in the theatre. After the war she toured Europe for a while and went to live on the French riviera where she opened a shop. She occasionally starred in plays but her name was forever connected with the early 1930's, when she really was "das süsseste Mädel der Welt" (the sweetest girl in the world). Today her song "Das gibt's nur einmal"/"Seraît-ce un rêve?"/"Just once for all time" continues to charm film fans and record collectors. She died in 1968.When the nazis came to power in 1933, Oskar Karlweis, musicians W.R. Heymann and Robert Gilbert, director Wilhelm Thiele and character actor Kurt Gerron left Germany... Kurt Gerron died in Auschwitz in 1944. The movie was forbidden in 1937. After the war it was succesfully re-released (a remake was made in the mid-fifties keeping the songs but lacking all the charm the original had).For an elegant French version of the song and part 2 of this video :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNQQOjJY1aoOsskar Karlweis recorded the song for Electrola, unfortunately I do not have it, therefore I decided to upload this scene from the movie.Please select "Watch on high quality" for the best Video/Audio quality as this is an MPEG-file.
Gracie Fields Love Waked In
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A Wonderful version of this classic song from a Rex 78RPM.
Miliza Korjus Frühlingsstimmen Walzer
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Frühlingsstimmen WalzerJohann Strauss Miliza KorjusOrchester der Staatsoper Berlin. Ludwig Rüth, dir.HMV E.H. 860
The Organ, Dance Band and Me (Billy Thorburn's Band) - 1939
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The Organ, The Dance Band and Me (Billy Thorburn's Band, with Vocal Refrain (uncerdited) - Odeon 1939 (Polish pressing)------------------------------------Billy THORBURN (1900-1971) British pianist and dance band leader. He learnt piano and organ at an early age with a view to a career in serious music, but service in WW1 introduced him to jazz and changed all that, and he became hooked on popular music. Billy began working in concert parties and eventually became a dance band musician with Jack Hylton's Queens Hall Roof Orchestra from 1922 to 1924. Following this he became involved with many groups including the Savoy Orpheans directed by Debroy Somers in 1926, Sydney Kyte's Piccadilly Hotel Band in 1930, and had recorded with Jay Wilbur's Orchestra, as well as spending three years or so with Jack Payne from 1932 to 1936 - when he formed his own band, Billy Thorburn and His Music. He had made several records with Parlophone between 1936 and 1938. From 1938 what had been Billy Thorburn and His Music became a new aggregation known asThe Organ, The Dance Band and Me(which made the assumption that everyone would know who 'me' was - Billy, of course). It was a studio dance band featuring Billy Thorburn on piano and various instrumentalists and vocalists (Chick Henderson, Alan Kane, Helen Raymond, Julie Dawn, Terry Devon, Kay Harding, Helen Clare, Don Adams, George Barclay, Harry Kaye and Bob Dale). A number of famous organists were used, starting with Reginald Foort, but mainly using H. Robinson Cleaver. The organ was EMI's three manual Compton unit. The blend of the organ solo with a dance band was a novel concept that produced many fascinating records in which the organ was skilfully accompanied by the rest of the band. They recorded several hundred sides from 1939 until the early 1950s, almost exclusively for the Parlophone.------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE: The first recordings of British theatre organs were made in 1926, using the Christie organ at the Elite Theatre, Wimbledon, with Jack Courtnay at the console. These were soon followed by recordings of Reginald Foort at the Wurlitzer organ of the New Gallery Theatre in Regent Street, Quentin Maclean at the Compton organ at The Pavilion, Shepherd's Bush, Al Bollington in Paramount Theatre, Tottenham Court Rd., Jesse Crawford in Empire Theatre, Leicester Sq, Stuart Barrie, born in Canada - brilliant but eccentric organist, who came to England from the USA in the late 1930s and played at Granada Theatre, Tooting, or Robinson Cleaver at Regal Theatre, Compton.
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