Singing Babies - Ich lieb' dich, I love you, je t'aime

Lindström master Bi 1019-2, rec. Berlin, November 1932.
Six unknown female singers with piano.
This Austrian septet is maybe the most successful female harmony export of the German speaking part of the world, and yet hardly anything about them is known. They first recorded in 1930, and in the following years restlessly toured around the world. They recorded in Berlin, Milan, Prague, Hollywood, and London. The Harmony Boys' Werner Doege remembered meeting them in Switzerland, and in the mid-1930s a Brazilian film featured them. They were always in demand for movies, and from the few I have seen I can vouch for the fact that, although their singing is an acquired taste, their show was always spectacular. In 1933 they parted ways with their original arranger and manager Edmund Fritz, and around that time changed their name to "The Viennese Seven Singing Sisters" - not quite correct, for I don't think their pianist also sang, and there is some evidence that they were no sisters, as well: Later in the 1930s they seem to have lost some members, for a performance in Düsseldorf in 1938 (as "Singing Babies" again) lists them as Herma v. Thun, Lorle Heyn, Elisabeth Meeuws, and Marion Moench. I don't know if these four ladies were already part of the original line-up. Several German groups had to find new names instead of their original ones that the Reichskulturkammer found too foreign-sounding at the end of 1938. So there are a few recordings by a group called "Radio-Quartett" made for Telefunken in December 1938 and 1939 that to my ears sound quite similar to the Singing Babies, but at the moment there is no information available to verify this.

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• 1930s
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• Austrian
• German
• international
• vocal
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• Singing
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• Viennese
• Sisters
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• novelty

[Rudicke]

Hallo,

ich besitze eine Schellackplatte, Electrola EG 1909 mit den Titeln "Grüss mir mein Hawaii" und "Fox dei Lilas", Gesang "Edmund Fritz's Singing Babies"

Ist das die selbe Damengruppe ?

[kr103]

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Das ist in der Tat die selbe Gruppe und eine wirklich seltene Platte ...

[ilindb]

kr103 i would love it if you would add the information you posted above to the wiki site mentioned below. slowly, the history of the group will emerge!

[ilindb]

everyone interested in this group should visit the wikipedia site viennese singing sisters where there are links to pictures and MOVIES!

[ilindb]

@Rudicke Ich habe mein Bild von diese gruppe gefunden und kann ein jpg bei email schicken, ich weiss nicht wie man es hier "posts". Schrieb mir at ilindb at gmail dot com. goldensorrow's mother

[Rudicke]

Hallo Goldensorrow,

die 1909 ist die Bestellnummer der Electrola-Schellackplatte, nicht die Jahreszahl.

Viele Grüße tschüß Sascha

[Goldensorrow]

@Rudicke

ich habe ein BIld irgenwo (this is still goldensorrow's mother. they were lovely young women in their twenties and toured the world with this group. es tut mir leid mein deutsch ist nicht so gut...ich verstehe aber habe wenige woerter..ich wohne in vereinigten staaten. ich habe nur die schallplatte Cuban Tango.