[78-L] Lili Marleen

[Kristjan Saag]

There are many stories about the poem that became a song and a recording and 
a hit on both sides of WW II: "Lili Marleen"/ "Lili Marlene".
One is that Lale Andersen's August 1939 recording wasn't the first, that it 
was done by a male singer before that. Can anyone confirm?
Another rumour says that Lale Andersen recorded a second German language 
version during the war, one with a more marked drum beat, more military. 
According to the Lale Andersen discography at 
http://www.lale-andersen.de/index1.htm there was no such recording, only 
versions in English and Italian plus a German/English combined version, 
which sound similar to the original 1939 recording. Her later German 
recordings were all made after the war.
I'm not sure how reliable this online discography is - and have no access to 
Lotz.
Can anyone cast light on these questions?
Kristjan