[78-L] Odeon acoustic beauty

[Kristjan Saag]

Bob Rice wrote:
> Marek Weber does a great repatoire of 20-30's danz(dance)Music.
> A facinating viriety of OOmpa to Waltz stuff, and considering the 
> backround
> ,of Germany's decent into hell, the Hitler Years, Music to build V-2's and
> Jet planes,U-boats, and early attempts at nuclear weapons,by. Guyz on here
> guided me to a CD of Marek Weber's stuff, He MUST have done more than on 
> the
> German CD? mailman/listinfo/78-l
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A strange observation. I wouldn't dream of speaking about the US nuclear 
program in the 1940's or Hiroshima when evaluating the efforts of Glenn 
Miller and Artie Shaw.
Show business in Germany was as vital as anywhere else in the world, despite 
the Nazis. The repertoire was, basically the same, there was Oompa and Waltz 
and Foxtrot and Rumba and Tango and jazz music was as hot as in Brooklyn - 
even got hotter during the restriction years, immediately before and during 
the war.
There's so much written about this, but it has yet to reach US shores.
Kristjan