Comedian Harmonists - In einem kühlen Grunde [take 1]

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HMV master OD 739-1, rec. Berlin, 7 January 1932
Ari Leschnikoff (1st tenor), Erich Collin (2nd tenor), Harry Frommermann (3rd tenor), Roman Cycowksi (baritone), Robert Biberti (bass), Erwin Bootz (piano)
The story of the Harmonists has been told many, many times, and I will not bore you by telling it again. But I hope you will be interested in this recording, for it has never been issued on LP or CD.
When the test pressing of this famous song was to be okayed by the singers, they rejected it for technical reasons and wanted to redo it. At this point, the record company had to admit in a letter (dated 28 January) that 1000 copies had already been pressed and shipped. This is one of them. The remake that finally made it on all the other discs, and that can be heard on countless reissues, is take five - easily identified by one of the rare wrong notes played by Erwin Bootz in the intro. I wonder if the Harmonists at that point wished they had not ordered the first master to be destroyed?

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  • Why the hell are some people talking about war and stuff... c'mon dudes, let's listen to this piece of art.

  • This is the Germany we all know and love.

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  • @Avalon400

    Thank YOU very much ...... but my country is - today - far away from our "good" roots.

    It is a shame!

    The Comedian Harmonist have been such a good "group" BUT in a very BAD TIME!

  • @fuertherbube

    wie wahr er doch ist ....... dieser Text!

  • A tribute to Heidelberg, Germany :)

  • @danilotactac War is often thought art.

  • Das ist Deutschland!

  • @phibomania In der Weimarer Zeit konnte sich ein Arbeiter garnicht leisten ins Kino oder ins Theater zu gehen. In diesem Reaktionären System war dies nur der oberen Klasse vorbehalten.

  • @Gruenkreuz100

    ... die sich dem Nationalsozialisten unterordneten bzw., der "richtigen Rasse" angehörten.

  • @Gruenkreuz100 Du hast sicherlich Recht damit, dass die Nationalsozialisten, die "deutsche Kultur" gefördert haben. Nur legten sie gleichzeitig fest, wer und was "deutsch" ist. So wurden (Ehren)doktortitel aberkannt, Bücher von "undeutschen" Autoren (wie Brecht und Tucholsky) öffentlich verbrannt und auch die Musik und das Schauspiel mussten sich dem Regime unterordnen. Faktisch war es also nur denen möglich aufzutreten oder zu publizieren,...

  • @phibomania Das ist Unsinn. Man kann den Nationalsozialisten vieles vorwerfen, aber nicht das sie nicht die deutsche Kultur gefördert hätten wie kaum eine Regierung jemals zuvor. Deutschlands Untergang ist ganz aktuell und hat mit der BRD zu tun.

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