Charlie and his Orchestra - Blue Skies are around You

[deathontheroad666]

Is this the correct name of this tune? I can't find this

[deathontheroad666]

:D

[FreiTilsit]

The German people had all of their patents, copyrights, technology and industry stolen from them after the war by the allies.

[colourfulwithaU]

Nazis playing music spawned in Africa and grown in America? The irony, it hurts!

[FreiTilsit]

@colourfulwithaU, I didn't know the Africans had tubas, trombones, trumpets, flutes and the such....

[colourfulwithaU]

@FreiTilsit

Instrumentation is hardly what makes a genre itself. What about cultural influence and historical origin? Jazz comes from blues, which comes from *AFRICAN* slaves in America singing their troubles away, and their singing style comes from their home continent. The music today is an almost indistinguishable mix of African and European influences, but jazz in the Nazis' day was a 'black music'; there is a reason the Nazi party looked down on jazz. Research, man.

[FreiTilsit]

@colourfulwithaU, yes, negro jazz was called, entartete musik, "degenerate music", and rightly so from a European standard. However one could argue that many Deutsche tango's and Hans Albers's style swing had what some people today would call a "jazz" sound, yet these styles do not emulate negro rhythms at all.

Do some research besides watching "Swing Kids"....man.

[danzwoot]

@FreiTilsit A popular myth. It simply wasn't called Jazz but modern rhythm music. In the 20ths real Jazz bands like Sam Wooding performed in Europe. Bechet complained about racism in the US.

[atirisdes]

i cant help but imagine many funny scenes, like herr goebbels trying to swing with his crippled body

[OrodesIII]

very catchy

[JOKER5432101]

great tunes, and funny

[peejay1975]

Indeed propaganda. However, the orchestra is playing the song quite well.

[greendaisy1]

nazi propaganda

[drkkrobot]

duh :) but its great to learn from history or ones doomed to repeat it . also some of these tunes are funny :)

[jaguarjaguarjaguarja]

@drkkrobot: I totally agree with you. It's quite irritating when one immediately screams "NAZI!!!" and wouldn't want to hear another word. It's best to analyze and learn more than to conclude immediately.

[DestroyaDoll]

@jaguarjaguarjaguarja -- I realize how trite it sounds, but...if one does not learn from history, one is doomed to repeat it. People who stick their noses up, and plug their ears, upon the mere mention of "Nazi" are being willfully ignorant. You don't have to *agree* with what a group, from any time period, believed/did in order to learn about them. How silly it seems to be willing to learn all about one sides motives, but nothing about the others. People are people,and we are all similar.

[FreiTilsit]

@drkkrobot, and the lesson to be learned is to never stab your brother in the back to save an outsider who hates both you and your brother.

[spritz0]

This is a true "lost classic"- please add more Charlie, etc... absolutely 5*****

[taofledermaus]

I haven't heard this one from Charlie. Cool stuff