[78-L] Lili Marleen

[Kristjan Saag]

I don't think Willy Fritsch ever recorded it. This must be one of the many 
fairytales waltzing around on youtube etc.
Kristjan


> 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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