[78-L] Lili Marleen

[Don Chichester]

According to Carlton Jackson ("The Great Lili",Strawberry Hill Books, 1979), Lili was the first to record Lili Marleen.

Don
 
> From: kil at roadrunner.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:48:07 -0500
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Lili Marleen
> 
> 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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