LILI MARLENE VINTAGE LALE ANDERSEN IN GERMAN
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RARE VINTAGE HIS MASTERS VOICE 78 rpm SINGLE ORIGINAL GERMAN VERSION OF 'LILI MARLENE' BY GERMAN FEMALE VOCALIST/CABARET SINGER FROM COLOGNE, LALE ANDERSEN WHICH I BELIEVE WAS ORIGINALLY RECORDED IN 1939,AND THE ORIGINAL VERSION SOLD ONLY 700 RECORDS!... LIED EINES JUNGEN WACHTPOSTENS... LILI MARLENE WAS SET TO MUSIC BY GERMAN COMPOSER NORBERT SCHULTZE IN 1939 FROM A GERMAN POEM BY WORLD WAR 1 GERMAN SOLDIER HANS LEIP WHO WROTE THE VERSE BEFORE GOING TO THE RUSSIAN FRONT IN 1916 COMBINING THE NAME OF HIS GIRLFRIEND WITH THAT OF A FRIEND'S GIRLFRIEND. IN THE LATE SPRING OF 1941 LALE ANDERSENS RECORDING WAS BROADCAST FROM A GERMAN FORCES RADIO STATION IN OCCUPIED BELGRADE TO ROMMEL'S TROOPS IN NORTH AFRICA AND ACHIEVED IMMEDIATE POPULARITY WITH THE GERMAN TROOPS.....ITS SEDUCTIVE POWER WAS SO GREAT THAT IT INFECTED THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY AND THE ITALIAN ARMY ,WHO ALSO LISTENED TO THE BROADCASTS ....UNTIL IT BECAME KNOWN AS "THE SONG OF THE WHOLE DESERT"......RECOGNISING ITS PROPAGANDA VALUE THE GERMANS CONSTRUCTED LOUDSPEAKER UNITS ON LORRIES WITHIN SHORT RANGE OF THE EIGHTH ARMY AND BLASTED THIS GERMAN LALE ANDERSEN VERSION OF THE SONG AT THE BRITISH ARMY EVERY NIGHT...<TRANSLATED>...."UNDERNEATH THE LANTERN BY THE BARRACK GATE, DARLING I REMEMBER ,THE WAY YOU USED TO WAIT, T'WAS THERE THAT YOU WHISPERED TENDERLY, THAT YOU LOV'D ME, YOU'D ALWAYS BE, MY LILI OF THE LAMPLIGHT, MY OWN LILI MARLENE"..........
IINSTRUMENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT CONDUCTED BY SEIDLER-WINKLER. RECORD IS IN VERY GOOD PLAYABLE CLEAR CONDITION...REVERSE SIDE 'DREI ROTE ROSEN' ALSO SUNG BY LALE ANDERSEN AND SAME ACCOMPANIMENT. ..CENTRE OF RECORD STATES 'MANUFACTURED SPECIALLY FOR THE GRAMAPHONE CO LTD SYDNEY N.S.W......
*****FOR GRAMAPHONE ENTHUSIASTS I WILL BE LISTING SHORTLY AN ORIGINAL EARLY 1900'S COLUMBIA GRAFFONOLA BY COLUMBIA GRAMAPHONE CO.LONDON.. WIND UP WITH HORN, MANTLE <TABLE TOP> MODEL******
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