[78-L] Lili Marleen

[David Lennick]

It was also originally Lied Eines Jungen Wachtposten. Odd thing..google that 
and you see several links that spell it "Lili Marleen".

dl

simmonssomer wrote:
>  As far as I know, it was  "Lili Marlene"
> Where did this "Marleen" come from?
> Probably the same place as "nucular"
> 
> Al S
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Milan P Milovanovic" <milanpmilovanovic4 at gmail.com>
> To: <78-l at 78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Lili Marleen
> 
> 
>> Not exactly, but it was Decelith recording probably recorded back in the
>> studio those days.
>>
>> I traced three or four versions of that Sender Belgrade story as well.
>>
>> Also, saw in daily periodical news (issued back during 1940s) that framed
>> record of the very same song they put on the main entrance to the radio
>> station (!)
>>
>> M.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Lili Marleen
>>
>>
>>> Milan P Milovanovic wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> just about two years ago or so, person from Belgium contacted me, saying
>>>> that he is in possession of original Decelith record inscribed "Lili
>>>> Marleen" with interpretation of a song that was distributed freely via
>>>> Sender Belgrad radio station - it was the main source that made this 
>>>> song
>>>> so
>>>> popular during those war years.
>>>> Unfortunately, this man contacted me only once - he was interested in
>>>> process of record cleaning.
>>>> He also said, he bought this foil on some kind of a flea-market.
>>> ---
>>> You mean that the station made its own copies and distributed them to
>>> listeners?
>>> That would be interesting, because the story of the Beograd station (the
>>> German Armed Forces Network in occupied Serbia) has many versions. One is
>>> that the station was given orders, from Berlin, not to play the song -
>>> which
>>> could account for it's efforts to distribute acetates of it to its
>>> listeners.
>>> But the copy offered to you could as well have been a private recording
>>> from
>>> one of the broadcasts.
>>> Kristjan
>>>