[78-L] Lili Marleen

[Royal Pemberton]

There is also a medley in which 'Lili Marlen' is worked in at the end at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCz34cAMeA

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:48 PM, RAY KILCOYNE <kil at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> 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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