[78-L] Not-So-Good Time Charlie

[David Lennick]

simmonssomer wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Not-So-Good Time Charlie
> 
> 
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 
>> I only recently discovered Charlie and his Orchestra/ snip/
>> I learned from the net that the leader of the band apparently helped
>> shelter some Jews during the
>> war, and that he moved to the US after the war ended.
> ---
> It was the singer, Karl Schwedler, who moved to the US in 1960.
> The leader of the band, Lutz Templin, was employed by the US military,
> immediately after the end of the war, to lead the dance orchestra of the US
> administered Radio Stuttgart. A few years later he founded the dance
> orchestra of Süddeutsche Rundfunk, one of several German post war radio
> orchestras who also functioned as big bands and gave job opportunities to
> European jazz musicians in the dark years of rock and roll...
> Kristjan
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Jawohl. These Nazis were great humanitarians.
> 
> Al Simmons 

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