Old foxtrot from Berlin: Am Rüdesheimer Schloss steht eine Linde, 1925

Am Rüdesheimer Schloss steht eine Linde (At Rüdesheimer Castle Stands a Linden Tree) Foxtrot (E.Ziegler /E.Neubach) - Gesang mit Orchesterbegleitung (Sung with Orchestra) Derby 1925 (Germany; accoustic recording)

NOTE: This is a truly charming song, full of peace and sunlight. I could say, the color of this song is , indeed, a light-golden gleam which on a sunny day, dances in a glass of a Rhein wein, when sunrays are peeping through the crystal walls of a glass and plunge deep into a magic liquid.
That song was sometimes sung or played on piano at my home when I was a child. It tells a simple story about a couple of young lovers, who make one sunny day, a trip down the bank of a Neckar river, towards the Rudesheimer castle. Also, it tells about a heart they carved on a trunk of an old linden tree, that stands there. Many years later, when all the sunshine of those day - as well as the youth, and the love - are gone, yet the heart on the tree-trunk is still there.

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[Trombonology]

Absolutely lovely illustrations, which match so well this sweet song, which somehow manages to communicate its story through the music, as I am unacquainted with anything beyond the most obvious German phrases. I am reminded, too, by your story, of 1935's "Two Hearts Carved on a Lonesome Pine" and the following year's "A Summer Holiday," the latter of which was dedicated to singer Lee Wiley.

[240252]

@Trombonology I had just the same association - with Dorsey's Two Hearts Carved On a Lonesome Pine" - which I uploaded in YT about a year ago! It is one of those lovely "gemutlich" German songs from canon of the "family singing" in Central Europe at the eve of 20th century.Yet soon those friendly songs praising the charms of out of town trips with a dear one and a picknick basket full of hard boiled eggs, had to give space to the military bands and to more and more marching rhythms

[dzheger]

Lovely. The song and the singing style sound to me more like 1900 than 1920's, and it's charming.

[240252]

@dzheger Yes, it is exactly what I just wrote to Trombonology. Germany has a rich tradition of such lovely peace - loving songs praising the "simple values" of everyday life. However, to our regret, rich was also another German tradition - emerging from somewhat less peaceful feelings...

[MaisSimples]

Belíssimo!!!

[fled8i]

Vielen Dank für die schöne Bildauswahl!! Von dem Titel gibt es auch "flottere" Einspielungen,

z.B. von Reinhard Wenskat mit Max Kuttner als Sänger. Viele Grüße vom Rhein!!

[barbcard]

I love schmaltzy music in any language. Danke schon.

[neilkcoker]

Nice song with lots of feeling, thanks