dinsdag 27 juni 2017

Der Leiermann (1827) / (1928) / Le Joueur De Vielle (1906) / Шарманщикъ=Sharmanshchik (1910) / The Hurdy-Gurdy Man (2009)



In 2009 Sting recorded a song called "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" (NOT TO BE CONFUSED with the Donovan-song)
The song Sting covered was originally called "Der Leiermann", a song by Franz Schubert, which started life as a poem by Wilhelm Müller.
This poem was contained in Müller's 1824 book Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten (=Poems from the posthumous papers of a travelling horn-player), dedicated to the composer Carl Maria von Weber (godfather of Müller's son F. Max Müller), 'as a pledge of his friendship and admiration'. Weber had died in 1826.
"Der Leiermann" was poem #24 of the "Die Winterreise" part in Wilhelm Müller's book.
On the next link you can read the complete book:
"Der Leiermann" as part of "Die Winterreise" is on page 107/108



Müller, a poet, soldier, and Imperial Librarian at Dessau in Prussia (present-day east-central Germany), died in 1827 aged 33, and probably never heard the first musical setting of his poems by Schubert.

Schubert composed the "Die Winterreise" songcycle in two parts, each containing twelve songs, the first part in February 1827 and the second in October 1827. The two parts were also published separately, by Tobias Haslinger, the first on 14 January 1828, and the second (the proofs of which Schubert was still correcting days before his death on 19 November) on 30 December 1828 in a book titled: Winterreise. Von Wilhelm Müller. In Musik gesetzt für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte von Franz Schubert. 89tes Werk (=Winter Journey. By Wilhelm Müller. Set to music for a singing voice accompanied by the pianoforte by Franz Schubert. 89th work)  (Verlagsnummern (=Publishers number) 5101 bis 5124) (D 911 op. 89)
On 4 March 1827, Schubert had invited a group of friends to his lodgings intending to sing the first group of songs, but he was out when they arrived, and the event was postponed until later in the year, when the full performance was given.
"Der Leiermann" was most likely introduced by Schubert´s friend, the baritone singer Johann Michael Vogl, who introduced Schubert and his songs into many musical households great and small in their tours through Austria during the mid-1820s.
Schubert's last task in life was the correction of the proofs for part 2 of Winterreise, and his thoughts while correcting those of the last song, "Der Leiermann", when his last illness was only too evident, can only be imagined. However, he had heard the whole cycle performed by Vogl (which received an enthusiastic reception).

Here is the autograph manuscript of Der Leiermann from February 1827



And here is the full autograph manuscript of part 2 of Winterreise from February 1827.
12 Der Leiermann is on the pdf-file below (pages 71-74)


Full texts of the songs with a translation by William Mann are here:





The first recording I could trace, is on a Pathe-cylinder (#042).
It was recorded in France between 1897-1900 by an anonymous performer.

SEE #6 on the next LINK: Search Results for 1897, Lehl



(c) Jeanne Marié de l'Isle (1906) (as "Le joueur de vielle")
Recorded 1906 in Paris
Matrix 6110o
Released on Zonophone X-83173


SEE:  ARTIST_M.pdf




(c) Max Kacewiecz (1906)  (as "Der Leiermann")
OtherNr: Globos 1036




The first recording I could find is a Russian version.

(c) Лев Михайлович Сибиряков (=Lev Mihaylovich Sibiryakov) (1910)  (as "Шарманщикъ" ="Sharmanshchik")
Recorded February 23, 1910 at St Petersburg
Matrix 14815b
Released on Concert Record "Gramophone" GC 4-22135
 







The first German version till now I found

(c) Elena Gerhardt (1927) (as "Der Leiermann")
Coenraad V. Bos, piano
Recorded March 9, 1927
Matrix: Cc10424-2
Released on HMV D1264 (2-043066)


Or here:




(c) Richard Tauber (1927) (as "Die Winterreise - No 24: Der Leiermann")
Contributor : Mischa Spoliansky
Recorded June 20, 1927 in Berlin
Matrix Be 5860-1
Released on Columbia 17009-D (USA)/ Decca 20566 / Nippon Columbia J 5410 / Odeon 15022 B / Odeon 196.022 / Odeon O-4913 / Parlophone AR 118 / Parlophone RO 20042 (UK)
 



Or here:


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(c) George Henschel (1928)  (as "Der Leiermann (The Hurdy Gurdy Man"))
Recorded March 3, 1928 in London
Matrix A 6892
Released on Columbia D1621 and D1657
 


Or here:




(c) Heinrich Rehkemper (1928) (as "Der Leiermann")
Manfred Gurlitt (Piano)
Recorded 1928 in Berlin
Matrix 1484bk
Released on Polydor 90019 and on Grammophon 90019



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(c) Franz Völker (1928) (as "Der Leiermann")
Johannes Heidenreich, piano
Recorded June 2, 1928 in Berlin
Matrix 1167bm
Released on Polydor 19912 and Grammophon 19912




Listen here:  Völker Leiermann.wav

Or here:




(c) John McCormack (1928) (as "The Hurdy Gurdy Man")
Nathaniel Shilkret (cond. orchestra)
Recorded November 28, 1928 in New York
Matrix: CVE 49213-3
Released on Victor 6928 as part the 78 RPM album "An Hour With Schubert" (Victor C-3)
 





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(c) Gaston Angeli (1931) (as "Der Leiermann")
Arpad Sandor (piano)
Recorded May 1931
Released on Ultraphon A-4013





(c) Gerhard Husch (1933)  (as "Die Winterreise - 24 Der Leiermann")
Hanns Udo Müller: piano
Recorded August 3, 1933
Matrix: OD 1638-2
Released on Electrola DA 1346




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(c) Harry Plunket Greene (1934) (as "The Hurdy Gurdy Man")
Recorded January 10, 1934
Released on Columbia DB 1377




Or here:




(c) Lotte Lehmann (1941) (as "No 24 Der Leiermann")
Recorded March 19, 1941 in USA
Matrix Co30014-1
Released on Columbia 17369-D





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(c) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1955) (as "Der Leiermann")
Recorded December 1, 1955
Matrix: ORA 7698-1
Released on Electrola DA5528



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(c) Hannes Wader (1997)  (as "Der Leiermann")
Guitar: Ralf Illenberger
Bass: Eberhard Weber



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Here's a version by Michael Vereno, accompanied with a real Hurdy Gurdy, which gives the song an even more melancholic tone.




(c) Sting (2009) (as "The Hurdy-Gurdy Man")
Julian Sutton: melodeon


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(c) De Dijk with Amsterdam Sinfonietta (2014)  (as "De Muzikant")
Dutch lyrics Huub van der Lubbe

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donderdag 22 juni 2017

Oh Freedom (1860´s) / Sweet Freedom (1931)


"OH FREEDOM" is an African-American spiritual dating from the Civil War of the 1860´s. The author is unknown.
According to oral tradition "Oh Freedom" was used as a marching song by Blacks protesting the Atlanta race riots of 1906. With changes in lyrics, it was used in the 1930´s by organizers of the Southern Tenant Farmer´s Union.
By the time of the Civil Rights Movement, "Oh Freedom" was not generally found in the repertoire of the Black Church congregations. Movement activists familiar with the song culture of the 1930´s, brought the song to the sit-ins and Freedom Rides and into the mass meeting song repertoire.
Odetta made a recording in 1956 and it became an anthem of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. Odetta also sang it, when Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C., in front of nearly 250,000 civil rights supporters.


Part of the song was published on page 25 of William E Barton's "Old Plantation Hymns" (1899).
The title there is "Before I'd be a Slave".



It´s also on page 114 of Thomas P. Fenner's "Cabin and Plantation Songs As Sung by the Hampton Students" (1901)
 




The Nance Family seems to be the first artists who recorded this song in 1931, with a different title ("Sweet Freedom") and a slightly different musical setting.

E.R. Nance was a singing-school teacher, who was living in Booneville, North Carolina. He first approached Art Satherley about recording his family at the American Record Corporation in 1930.
Few of the records from their lengthy stay in New York City were ever released, and Nance was very interested in having more of his music available on record. Now familiar with the system and having established a modest track record, Nance approached Brunswick and Gennett.
Both companies decided to take a gamble and in quick succession the Nance Family had recordings out on Brunswick and on Gennett's subsidiaries, Champion and Superior.


(c) Nance Family with Traphill Twins (1931) (as "Sweet Freedom")
Earl R. Nance: Bass Vocal; Madie Nance: Soprano Vocal
Helen Nance: Alto Vocal; Byron Bryan: banjo; Sam Halbrook: guitar
Recorded April 14, 1931 in New York
Released on Brunswick 565




(c) E.R Nance Family with Clarence Dooley (1931) (as "Sweet Freedom")
Earl R. Nance: Bass Vocal; Clarence Dooley: Tenor Vocal & Guitar
Madie Nance: Soprano Vocal; Helen Nance: Alto Vocal & Mandolin
Recorded on August 26, 1931 in Richmond, IN.
Released on Champion S-16410


Also released on Superior 2813 (billed as James Horton & Family)


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In 1937 John Handcock, a sharecropper from Brinkley, Arkansas recorded a version for the Libary Of Congress



(c) John Handcox (1937) (as "No More Mourning (Oh Freedom)")
Recorded March 9, 1937 in Washington, DC

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(c) Carl Sandburg (1947) (as "O Freedom")



(c) Deep River Boys (1946) (as "O Freedom")
Recorded in 1946
Released on the album "Spirituals and Jubilees" (on the Pilotone label)
 




(c) Joan Baez (1958)  (as "Oh Freedom")
Recorded in June 1958.
Released in 1964 on the album "In San Francisco"

Joan Baez in San Francisco was a demonstration record recorded by the 17-year-old Joan Baez in 1958, released without permission on Fantasy Records in 1964.


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When Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C., Joan Baez opened the day's events by singing this song in front of nearly 250,000 civil rights supporters.




(c) Harry Belafonte (1959)  (as "Oh Freedom")



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(c) The Montgomery Gospel Trio, The Nashville Quartet, and Guy Carawan (1961) 
(as "Oh Freedom")
Recorded in 1961 and released on Folkways Records FH 5591



Listen here:


Or here:




(c) Pete Seeger (1963)  (as "Oh Freedom")
Recorded June 8, 1963 at Carnegie Hall
Released on his album "We Shall Overcome"


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Joan Baez also sang it at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival
Recorded July 28, 1963 at Fort Adams Park in Newport


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Odetta also sang her medley in 1963 at the March On Washington Civil Rights meeting






(c) Hollis Watkins (1963) (as "Oh Freedom")
Recorded Fall/winter 1963 in Jackson, MS



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(c) SNCC Freedom Singers with Rutha Harris (1964)  (as "Freedom Medley")
Recorded Spring 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia

 




(c) Leon Bibb (1962) (as "Oh Freedom")



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(c) Congregation Of Brown Chapel (1965) (as "Oh Freedom")
Recorded March 1965 at Selma, Alabama


Listen here:


Or here:




(c) Peter, Paul & Mary (1996) (as "Freedom Medley")


Listen here:


Or here:




(c) Sweet Honey In The Rock (2000) (as "Oh Freedom")

On the soundtrack for the movie: "Freedom Song" (2000)

Listen here:


Or here:




(c) Roger McGuinn (2004) (as "Oh Freedom")
Recorded in 2004 for his Folk Den Project.





(c) Golden Gospel Singers (2007) (as "Oh Freedom")
Released on their album "A Capella Praise"





(c) Renée Fleming & Joan Baez & Suzanne Vega & Lou Reed (2009) (as "Oh Freedom")

Celebrating 20th years of the Velvet Revolution in Prague on 17. November 2009

Watch it here: 




(c) Aaron Neville (2010) (as "Oh Freedom")


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(c) Vivian Green (2012) (as "Oh Freedom")
Recorded in 2012 as sort of a soundtrack for the 2009 movie: "Soundtrack For A Revolution".
This soundtrack was released during Black History Month 2012

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"Oh Freedom" was also used to great effect in season 3 episode 9 of American Horror Story.
On television we see Odetta performing the song at a Civil Rights meeting, after 1 minute taken over by The Golden Gospel Singers magnificent version.


Watch it here:




And early 2017 "Oh Freedom" by the Golden Gospel Singers was also used on the soundtrack of the movie: "Gettysburg Addres".

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zondag 18 juni 2017

Boléro (1928)


"Boléro" is a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition.
The composition was a sensational success when it was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 22 November 1928, with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska and designs and scenario by Alexandre Benois. The orchestra of the Opéra was conducted by Walther Straram.


The piece was first published by the Parisian firm Durand in 1929.

See next link for complete score:    Ravel_-_Bolero_Full_Score_Durand_1929_.pdf


The first recording session of the "Bolero" in 1930 by the Grand Orchestre Symphonique, directed by Piero Coppola, was attended by Ravel himself.
 


(o) Grand Orchestre Symphonique (dir. Piero Coppola) (1930)
Recorded January 7, 1930  Salle Pleyel Paris
Matrix CF 2710/13
Released on Disque Gramophone W 1067/68 (France) 





Also released on Victor 13659/60 (USA)
 

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The next day, Maurice Ravel conducted the Lamoureux Orchestra in his own recording session for the Polydor-label.

(c) Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux (dir Maurice Ravel) (1930)
Recorded January 8, 1930 in Paris
Matrix 1812/15
Released on Polydor 566030/1 (France) / Polydor 66947/8 (Germany) /
Also released on Decca CA 8015/6 (UK) / Brunswick 90039/40 (USA)









(c) Boston Symphony Orchestra (dir by Serge Koussevitzky) (1930)
Recorded April 14, 1930 at the Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts
Released on Victor 7251



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(c) Willem Mengelberg and his Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Recoorded May 31, 1930 at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Released on Columbia LX 48/9 (UK)



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In 1934 George Raft and Carole Lombard starred in the film Bolero, which ended with them performing a dance to the music.




In 1977 "Allegro Non Troppo", a sophisticated parody of Walt Disney's Fantasia directed by Bruno Bozzetto, uses "Boléro" as the theme for a segment where an entire evolutionary sequence arises on an alien planet from the residue in the bottom of a Coke bottle discarded by a visiting human astronaut.

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In the 1979 movie "10", the character played by Bo Derek asks "Did you ever do it to Ravel's Bolero?", a reference to the idea that the work is a good accompaniment to lovemaking. A four-minute excerpt of Boléro is used during the subsequent sex scene.




(c) Tomita (1979)


A 7" and 12" single of "Bolero" was released in the UK by popular demand in the light of the success of the movie "10" starring Bo Derek and Dudley Moore. It actually hit the Top 75!


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Frank Zappa admired the piece, saying it "has one of the best melodies ever written", and performed an arrangement of it on his 1988 world tour. A reggae version of Ravel's "Boléro" is featured on his live album "The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life".

Watch it here:




(c) Gerard Joling (1989)  (as "No More Boleros")
written by Peter de Wijn, but unmistakable influenced by Ravel's "Bolero"
Nr 1 Hit in the Netherlands and Belgium.


Listen here (at 3 min and 3 sec in the YT below)



Nintendo composer Koji_Kondo (credited as Konchan) had at first wanted to use "Boléro" as the title screen music for  The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_game). Due to copyright issues, however, he had to scrap the idea and compose original music of his own. He wrote a new arrangement of the overworld theme within one day.

Watch it here:


The theme was later revisited in Ocarina_of_Time's music "Bolero of Fire", which also uses the same snare drum ostinato

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Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto reworked "Bolero" for the score of the 2002 Brian De Palma film "Femme Fatale", titled "Bolerish".

Listen here:




(c) Rufus Wainwright (2003) ( incorporated in "Oh What A World")


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vrijdag 9 juni 2017

Gökvalsen (1913) / Cuckoo Waltz (1918) / Coucou ! / Kuckuckswalzer / Koekoek-Wals



It is probably less well known that popular composer Emanuel Jonasson (1886-1956), called "Gok-Jonas", was also a military musician. His big hit number was "Gökvalsen", which has become a world success and one of the world's most played smaller pieces of music. According to a popular storytelling, he would have had the idea of ​​Gökvalsen as a musician at Gyllene Göken cinema in Stockholm in the 1910's. However, this story is contradicted by the fact that the cinema Gyllene Göken started in 1912 and that Gökvalsen was born in 1909 on Fristad Hed.
Another story is put forward by Ejnar Lyth. According to this, Gökvalsen would have been "pushed forward" on a one-piece accordion by the farmer's son Sigge Karlsson, who performed it at K 1's Christmas ball in 1912. Jonasson would have "taken over" the melody.



The first recorded version seems to be by Bröderna Sundquist (=Brothers Sundquist)

(c) Bröderna Sundquist (1913) (as "Gökvalsen")
Recorded in Berlin in 1913
Released on ISI 526   >> See next link: I.S.I.

Also released on Cezar 1501  >> See next link: Cezar


(c) Bröderna Sundkvist (1913) (as "Gökvalsen")
Recorded August 12, 1913 in Stockholm
Matrix 5101 ab
Released on Gramophone 289346




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(c) (Hjalmar) Meissners Militär-Orkester (1913) (as "Gökvalsen")
Recorded August 19, 1913 in Stockholm
Matrix 5241 ab


Released on Gramophone 280318   >> See next link: The Gramophone Company




Or here:




(c) Odeon Orkester (1914) (as "Gökvalsen")
Recorded in 1914 in Berlin
Released on Odeon A 145797  >> See next link Odeon



(c) Erik Sjöberg and Helge Nilssén (1914) (as "Gökvalsen")
Recorded May 1914 in Stockholm
Matrix:  Sto 839
Released on Odeon A148002 (Sweden)  >> See next link Odeon

Or here (click on audio side 2 on the next link):




(c) Herman Gellin (1915)
Recorded March 23, 1915 in Stockholm
Released on Gramophone ???  >> See next link  Skiv-titlar F - K



(c) J. Jacobson och Henry Magnuson (1918) (as "Gökvalsen")
Recorded February 1918 in New York
Released on Columbia E 3886
 





(c) Sven Andersson & Sander Ahlquist (1919) (as "Gökvalsen")
Recorded November 1919 in Hälsingborg
Released on Rolf Succès 718 >> See Rolf Winner Succès / Rolf Succès



(c) Carl Jularbo & Helge Eriksson (1920) (as "Gökvalsen")
Recorded October 6, 1920 in Berlin
Released on Artiphon 1004
Also released on Ekophon NS 1312





(c) International Novelty Quartet (1922) (as "Cuckoo Waltz")
Recorded April 10, 1922 in New York
Released on Victor 19349.


Also released for the German, Bohemian (Czech), Swedish, Norwegian and Polish market


Also released on Zonophone for the UK market


Listen here to a UK release:




(c) E. Jahrl Nyhetskvintetten (1926) (as "Gök -Valsen (Cuckoo Waltz)")
Recorded July 27, 1926 in New York
Released on Columbia 22038-F



The recording above was released in Columbia's "ethnic" series for several nationalities under different names:
"Gökvalsen" as E. Jahrl Nyhetskvintetten (Swedish)
"Käkivalssi" as Columbia Soitto Kvintetti (Finnish)
"Kukavica Valcek" as Columbia Hudebni Kvintet (Slovenian)
"Kuku Walc" as Instrumentowy Kwartet Warszawa (Polish)"
"Cuckoo Waltz" as Columbia Quintette (English)





In 1926 the International Novelty Quartet made a new recording of "Cuckoo Waltz".

(c) International Novelty Quartet (1926)  (as "Cuckoo Waltz")
Recorded September 10, 1926 in New York
Released on Victor 20253



Also released on HMV AL 832, K 5855, Electrola EG 2026 and Zonophone 5051
And on Victor JM-3 (for the Japanese market)

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(c) Municipal Band (1928) (as "Cuckoo waltz")
Recorded April 19, 1928 in new York
Released on Brunswick 1028-A





(c) Okeh International Orchestra (1929) (as "Cuckoo Waltz")
Recorded January 8, 1929 in New York
Released on Okeh 3516
Also released on Parlophone E 6171 (as by Parlophone International Orchestra)

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(c) Tanz-Orchester Dajos Béla (1929) (as "Cuckoo")
Recorded October 23, 1929 in Berlin
Matrix xxB 8415
Released on Odeon AA 178018



More than a year later Dajos Bela recorded a new version (as "Kuckuck Walzer")
Recorded December 2, 1930 in Berlin
Matrix Be 9269
Released on Odeon O-11352


Also released on Odeon 238.323 for the French market.

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(c) The Plaza Band (=Harry Hudson) (1930) (as "Cuckoo Waltz")
Recorded January 2, 1930 in London
Released on Edison Bell Radio 1307


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(c) Debroy Somers Band (1930) (as "Cuckoo Waltz")
Recorded March 22, 1930
Released on Columbia CB 50
 

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(c) Homocord Orchester (1930)  (as "Kuckuck")
Recorded October 1930 in Berlin
Released on Homocord H-3819


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(c) The Four Serenaders (1930) (as "Cuckoo Waltz (Le Coucou)")
(=Akkordeon-Quartett Gebrüder Lindqvist)
Recorded October 1930 in Berlin
Released on Tri-Ergon TE 6064

Dutch Lyrics: Ferry (van Delden)
Recorded October 1930 in Berlin
Matrix 63727
Released on Parlophon B 17625


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(c) The Happy Duet (Jeanne Horsten and Louis Noiret) (1930)  (as "Koekoek Wals")
Dutch Lyrics: R Niessen.
Matrix F 782
Released on Columbia DH 2


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(c) Harmonica (1930) (as "Koekoek Wals")
Recorded in 1930
Matrix: F 809
Released on Columbia DH 10

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(c) Harry Jackson´s Tanz-Orchester (1930) (as "Kuckuck-Walzer")
Recorded November 1930 in Berlin
Matrix
Released on Tri-Ergon TE 6096  >> See  Tri-Ergon


Also released on Brillant 52 as by Grosses Salonorchester 
                           Tempo 52 as by Grosses Salonorchester
                           Elite 1063 (Kontroll-Nummer 149) as by Salon-Orchester
                           Pallas und Paloma 1022 as by Salonorchester
                           Star C.8167 as by Milton´s Tanzorchester



(c) Harmonica-Duo John Hodde en J. van Laar (1930)  (as "Koekoek Wals")
Recorded ca November 1930 in Berlin
Released on Homocord H.4-66121

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Also realeased on Homocord Sv. 4-16105 II (for the Swedish market)




(c) "Grammophon" Künstler-Orchester (1930) (as "Kuckuck-Walzer")
Recorded December 1930 in Berlin
Released on Grammophon 23563



Also released on Polydor 23563 as by Polydor-Orchester.

One year later the same orchestra recorded a new version, which was released on both the Grammophon-label and the Polydor-label (both with label # 23932)


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(c) Marcel Véran (1930) (as "Coucou!")
French lyrics by Paul Max
Released on Pathe
 

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(c) Eric Harden (=Otto Dobrindt) Mit Seinem Tanz-Orchester (1931)  (as "Kuckuckswalzer")
Vocals by John Hendrik
German lyrics by Bert Reisfeld
Recorded January 1931 in Berlin
Released on Gloria G-10008


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(c) Tanz-Orchester Dobbri (=Otto Dobrindt) (1931)  (as "Kuckuck-Walzer")
Recorded January 10, 1931 in Berlin
Released on Parlophon B 12397


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(c) Alfred Beres mit Orchester (1931) (as "Kuckucks-Walzer")
Recorded January 1931 in Berlin
Matrix 16071
Released on Ultraphon A 794
Also released on Telefunken A 794


2 months later Alfred Beres recorded a new version
Matrix 16291
Released on Ultraphon A 880
Also released on Ultraphone AP 235 (for the French market)

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(c) Orchestrola Salon-Orchester (1931) (as "Kuckucks-Walzer")
Recorded January 17 1931 in Berlin
Released on Orchestrola 2509





(c) Jazz Sinfonie-Orchester Eddy Walis (1931) (as "Kuckuck-Walzer")
Recorded March 1931 in Berlin
Released on Artiphon 12064


Also released on the next 78:


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(c) Salon-Orchester Ramescu (1931) (as "Kuckucks-Walzer")
Recorded March 1931 in Berlin
Released on Grammophon 656





(c) Kapelle Gebrüder Steiner (1931)  (as "Kuckuck Walzer")
Recorded May 1931 in Berlin
Released on Tri-Ergon TE 6179  >> See: Tri-Ergon



(c) Tore Svensson & Co 1936 (as "Gökvalsen")
Recorded 1936 in Stockholm
Released on Sonora 3168

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(c) Ken Griffin (1948) (as "Cuckoo Waltz")  
Hit in the USA and in the UK


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(c) Ursula Maury und Peter Manuel (1951) (as "Kuckuckswalzer"
German lyrics by Rolf Ronnay
With Pierre Blanchard und seinem Orchester




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(c) Adalbert Lutter (1956) (as "Kuckucks-Walzer"







(c) Die Lorelei's (1959)  (as "Kuckuckswalzer")  
German lyrics by Rolf Ronnay
Released September 1959 on Philips 318 270 PF



Die Lorelei's were Dutch sisters Els en Madeleine Heymans, with orchestra conducted by Arnold Kleyn (=Addy Kleyngeld), who also played the accordion.

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(c) Harmonica Duo K. Schriebl / J. Hupperts (1959)  (as "Koekoekwals")


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(c) Zangeres Zonder Naam (1965)  (as "Koekoekswals"
Dutch Lyrics: Ferry (van Delden)


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More versions of "Gökvalsen" here:

Gökvalsen / Clarence Coleman, vissling / MunSPELDOSenterna / 04.06.1953 / Sonora 7729 /
Gökvalsen / Gunnar Hillgren / Tage Ekvall orch. / Sthlm 1949 / Harmony Music 40 /
Gökvalsen / Harry Branddelius / Cupolork. / 23.02.1949 / Cupol 4211 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Andrew Walter, dragspel / 26.01.1949 / Columbia DS 1770 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Bröderna Sundkvist / / CRG 289347 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Bröderna Sunsquist, dragspel / 12.08.1913 / Gramophone 289340 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Bröderna Sunsquist, dragspel / 1913 / ISI 526 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Carl Jularbos ork. / 1936 - utg. 04.1943 / Polyphon NS 90900 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Charleston serenaders / / Columbia DI 228 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Dragspel / N.Y. 192- / Odeon 19008 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / E. Jahrl Nyhetskvintetten / / Columbia 7899 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / E. Jahrls kvintett / / Columbia /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Emil Sjölberg & Helge Nissén, harmonika / 1914 / Odeon A 148002 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Gösta Westerlunds dragspelskvart. / 31.01.1947 / X 7343 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Gösta Westerlunds dragspelskvint. / 31.01.1947 / HMV AL 2942 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Gösta Westerlunds dragspelskvint. / 31.01.1947 / HMV X 7343 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Helmer Nerlund, dragspel / 08.04.1947 / Musica A 8748 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Helmer Nerlund, dragspel / 08.04.1947 / Telefunken A 8742 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Herman Gellin, dragspel / 23.03.1915 / Gramophone /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Hillers munspelsork - Karl Dahlberg, gitarr / 09.1937 / Toni 631 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Hillers munspelsork. - Karl Dahlberg, gitarr / 09.1937 / Toni 631 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / John Hodde - J.N. Laar, dragspel / 12.1930 / Homocord 4-16105 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Jularbo Kalle och Helge Eriksson, dragspel och fiol / Berlin 05.10.1920 / Ekophon 1004 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Jularbo Kalle och Helge Eriksson, dragspel och fiol / Berlin 05.10.1920 / Ekophon NS 1312 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Jularbo-Kalle - Helge Eriksson / Berlin 05.10.1920 / Artiphon 1004 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Kryssprickarna / 24.09.1951 / Sonora 7667 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Kurt Engels ork. / / Kristall 450 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Lasse Bennys trio / 18.08.1947 - utg. 10.1954 / Cupol 4880 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Lasse Bennys trio / 18.08.1947 / Cupol 1980 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Meissners militärork. / 19.08.1913 / Gram. Company 280318 / CRG
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Miff Görling / 26.02.1954 / Columbia DS 2103 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Odeon ork. / 1914 / Odeon A 145 797 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Olle Johnny, dragspel - gitarr / 07.12.1936 / Scala 31 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Olle Johnny, dragspel / 02.11.1954 / Odeon SD 5624 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Olle Johnny, dragspel / 07.12.1936 / Odeon D 3343 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Sune Östling, piano / 07.1942 / Polydor 48556 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Sven Andersson - Sander Ahlquist / 11.1919 / Rolf Succès 718 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Thore Svenssons harmonikaork. / 1936 - utg. 04.1943 / Sonora 260 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Thore Svenssons Harmonikaork. / 1936 / Tono M 11157 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Tore Svensson & Co / 1936 / Sonora 3168 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Willard Ringstrand, hammondorgel / / Cupol 4178 /
Gökvalsen / Instrumental / Willard Ringstrand, hammondorgel / 09.02.1949 / Cupol C 2010 /
Gökvalsen / John Hedéen / Tore Svensson & Co / 1936 / Tono M 11157 /
Gökvalsen / Nonne Hall / Ork. / 19.01.1943 / Scala 1447 /




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