[78-L] Lili Marleen

[RAY KILCOYNE]

According to this site Willy Fritsch was the first to recod it in Germany in 
1939.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295992/bio

Lale Andersen also recorded it in 1939.  Other sites say Andersen was first.

This is the site David refers to......

http://ingeb.org/garb/lmarleen.html

RayK
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>
From: "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
>
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