[78-L] Lili Marleen

[david.diehl at hensteeth.com]

The site also sez "An RCA US recording, by an anonymous chorus in June, made it to No. 13 in 1944." That would be the Perry Como version; bland yes but not quite anonymous.
BTW, does anyone know the date of the Greta Keller version released in the US on Victor 25-4004?
 DJD
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kristjan Saag [mailto:saag at telia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 05:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Lili Marleen

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>>>> _______________________________________________>> 78-L mailing list>> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com>> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l>> _______________________________________________> 78-L mailing list> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l _______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l