I was too busy to post new stuff here lately but I will be on the air tonight between 9 and 11 pm.
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Tonight on the Andy & Andy Show on Herbstradio 99.1 from 9 to 11 pm. We´ll play some weird German Music from the East and from the West to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall on November 9th 1989.
I was very busy the past days , because I´m off to Cyprus for the next two weeks with the newspaper I work for. So, this week I have Haro, a fellow record collector and reader of this blog fill in for me. He contacted me about the first Michael and the Firebirds 45 and when I replied he sent in these scans, MP3´s and the info. Thank you very much, Haro!
This is a Swedish record by a French artist playing Latin American music. Stella Felix began her professional career at the Cannes music festival in 1948. Her performance at the festival was so successful that she became a favourite especially in the Scandinavian countries. Born in Paris from Caribbean origin Stella Felix emulated her idol Josephine Baker but mixed Latin American music with Caribbean folk music. This Swedish EP from 1960 is a re-recording of her songs from the 1940´s.
Enjoy the wonderful and exciting voice of Stella Felix!
STELLA FELIX, Tocale La Bocina, 1960
STELLA FELIX, Se Eu Chorie, 1960
STELLA FELIX, ´O Cangaceiro, 1960
STELLA FELIX, Chon Choli, 1960
7´ Joker EP JEP 8004 – Mono – ” The Exiting Stella Felix ” 1960 – Schweden.Interpret : ” Stella Felix “ Label – Nr. : JEP Joker 8004 – Mono Matritz – Nr. : JEP – 8004 A / JEP – 8004 B Land : Schweden Erschienen : 1960 Zustand : Platte und Cover sehr gut erhalten ( VG+ / VG+ ) Besonderheit : Erstklassige original schwedische 7´EP ( Exended Play – 4 Songs ) von einer gebürtigen Pariserin, deren Vorfahren aus der Karibik ( Martinque ) stammen ( ehemalige französische Kolonie ), mit Classic Folklore Musik ( Südamerikanische Rhythm ) und tollem Gesang ! - EP – Side A 1 : Tocale La Bocina ( Manuel Jimenez ) EP – Side A 2 : Se Eu Chorie ( Bacci ) EP – Side B 1 : ´O Cangaceiro ( Z. do Norte ) EP – Side B 2 : Chon Choli ( Noro Morales ) - NCB – SIB TRYCK, FARSTA, SCHWEDEN 1960 -
Haro sent me the sleeve to the Michael and the Firebirds 45 that I posted earlier this year here. This is their second single on the Star Club label. The A-side is a great German cover-version of the Zombies hit She´s Not There. The B-side is a Michael & The Firebirds original. One year later their vocalist Michel Kogler got famous as the voice of the million-seller Black is Black by the manufactured Beat group Los Bravos. Kogler wrote the music and the lyrics to Black is Black. After his time in Los Bravos Michael Kogler tried his luck recording several records under the name of Mike Kennedy in the early 70´s but failed to chart.
Anyway this is excellent German Beat music! I love the Zombies and I love She´s Not There and this is a great German version of that song…
MICHAEL & THE FIREBIRDS, Lass Sie geh´n ( She´s Not There), 1965
MICHAEL & THE FIREBIRDS, Make Me Happy, 1965
For all you aural gourmets out there this was recorded with a slightly bigger Bit-rate than I usually do. Courtesy of Haro from Partenheim!
7´´ Star – Club Single 148 515 STF – Stereo – 1965 – D – ” Michael & The Firebirds ” ! - Band : ” Michael & The Firebirds “ Label – Nr. : Star – Club 148 515 STF – Stereo Matritz – Nr. : AA 148 515.1 F / AA 148 515.2 F Musikverlag : Minerva Music Land : Deutschland ( Germany ) Erschienen : 1965 Zustand : Platte und Cover sehr gut erhalten ( VG+ / VG+ )Besonderheit : Zweite 7´ Single – Ausgabe dieser doch damals wenig beachteteten Band, die aber für meine Begriffe sehr gute Musik ( Beat ) gemacht hat ! - Single – A Side : Lass Sie geh´n ( She´s Not There ) 2´24 ( Rod Argent / J. Nicolac ) Single – B Side : Make Me Happy 2´12 ( R. Lindt / P. Ström / G. Tilgert ) Group : ” Michael & The Firebirds ” -
Beschreibung : Hier eine sehr gut erhaltene original deutsche 7´ Star – Club Single im blauen Standard – Cover mit Bild von ” Michael ( Kogel ) ” auf der Coverrückseite. Auf der A. Seite erklingt die deutsche Cover – Version “ Lass Sie geh´n ” des Welterfolges ” She´s Not There ” der ” Zombies “,ceiner englischen Top – Beat Band der 60er Jahre. Die B. Seite ist mit einemcSong der Band selber bestückt ” Make Me Happy “, der ebenso gut eingespielt worden ist. Zu ” Michael and the Firebirds ” kann man folgendes schreiben undzwar wurde er am 25 April 1944 in Berlin mit dem Namen ” Michael Kogel “ geboren. 1964 tauchte er mit seiner Band in Köln im Glaspalast, einem Beat -schuppen in Köln – Ehrenfeld, auf. Dort wurde er von dem Kölner Musik -Produzenten ” Nils Nobach ” entdeckt und der produzierte auch die erste 7´Single der Band, die auf dem Ariola – Label unter der Nummer 10 960 AT( Mono ) mit einer tollen Bildhülle, die die Band komplett zeigt, erschien und zwar war auf der A. Seite ” Der Knüller Mausi Müller ” ( deutsche Version des US Top – Hits ” Abigail Becher ” von ” Freddie Cannon ” ) zu hören sowie auf der B. Seite ” Wir sind eine Dancing Band ” ( einem deutschen Stimmungssong der von der Band verbeatet worden ist ). Leider war diese Platte ein wenig erfolgreicher Wurf in Deutschland, sodaß gerade diese Single in gutem Zustand mit dem original Cover als sehr selten anzusehen ist. Auch der Produzent ” Nils Nobach ” brachte ” Michael Kogel ” 1966 mit der spanischen Band ” Los Bravos “ zusammen, die damals einen guten Sänger suchten und er hatte Glück das er mit der Band den Song ” Black Is Black ” einspielte, den er selber komponiert und getextet hatte und wie wir wissen, wurde der Song Weltweit ein Riesen Erfolg. Alle Aufnahmen, die dann von ” Los Bravos ” bis Ende der 60er Jahre erschienen, wurden mit dem Top – Sänger ” Michael Kogel ” aufgenommen und waren teilweise auch sehr gute Erfolge. Später stellte sich dann raus, das niemand von der bekannten Band ” Los Bravos ” an den Aufnahmen zu ” Black Is Black ” selber mit gewirkt hatte, sondern diese mit englischen Studio – Musikern gemacht wurden, nur der Sänger ” Michael Kogel ” war echt. Nachdem sich die Band in Spanien Anfang der 70er Jahre auflöste, brachte Michael unter dem Künstlername ” Mike Kennedy ” noch einige Platten auf den Markt, die aber vor allem in Deutschland wenig Beachtung fanden !
Haro ( Partenheim )
Last weekend I went to the flea-market on Saturday and on Sunday but this time to sell stuff for a change.
I mostly sold records and old comic-books and sat in the hot sun for two days. On Sunday I took a short break and checked out what the other sellers had to offer. That´s when I found this record.
I sometimes have the feeling that I might not find anything really weird any more but then stuff like this turns up. Of course I was curious when I saw the sleeve but it was not until I got home that I found out more about the record. These Songs were performed in the film Liebesmarkt in Dänemarkt, one of the countless sex-comedies that came out in the late 60´and early 70´s. Surprisingly 2.5 million people saw this film when it came out in 1970. It still ranks among the 100 most successful German movies at the box-office since 1968. As a side note the famous B-movie actress Sybil Danning played one of her first roles in this movie. Most recently she played in Quentin Tarantino´s Grindhouse, in a trailer called Werewolf Women of the SS and in Rob Zombie´s remake of Halloween.
I had never heard of Liebesmarkt in Dänemark and I bet most of the people who saw it forgot about it quickly. After pornography was suddenly not illegal in Germany any more in 1969 the sex-industry boomed and sex-movies and shops were opening up everywhere. Nonetheless the much more permissive Denmark was still regarded as a mecca of sin and sexuality.
Well, I know you can´t see me blushing right now, but this is a pornographic record. The up-beat dance music and the cute singing contrast greatly with the very explicit lyrics. The A-side is better musically although Ellen Sabri does sing about showing her breasts and her butt and some other things to a certain Herr Mayer. The B-side Pornoparadies Dänemark is were it gets really dirty. Dicks , pussies, fucking, dildos, cute Ellen sings about all of it in a very light-hearted and carefree manner. That´s really weird.
I definetely won´t be able to play this record anywhere else but here on this blog so enjoy…
There is a little known genre of German music that was very popular in the 1960´s: risqué Oompah-music. There were hundreds of groups playing and recording this thinly veiled, insinuating party-music. 
The Tiger label was one of the many sub-labels of Acondor that Hans-Werner Kuntze founded out of the small town of Osnabrück. His CCA label is famous for producing some of the rarest German Beat records.
This is still far away from the all-out graphic language of the Ellen Sabri songs but Lord Muck is singing about his “thing” being made in Germany. And of course the high quality it is made of…
I like most of the records I post on this blog, however strange or bad they may seem to other people. This is an exception and I only post this because I collect these type of records and because it fits with the Ellen Sabri record. I collect them but I don´t really listen to these records. They are bad.
So why do I collect them? Probably because they are so rediculously bad that it amazes me. “Bake, bake a cake always in front of the hot hole” is not nearly as hot as the Hot Nuts because these Skirt Chasers are playing this awful Oompah music but… I don´t know… just listen for yourself…
DIE SCHÜRZENJÄGER, Backe, backe Kuchen, 1966
DIE SCHÜRZENJÄGER, Und dann braucht sie ´nen starken Hammer, 1966
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Our radio show on Tuesday was a lot of fun. We played a really diverse range of music and further established our two very diverse radio personalities: East-Andy and West-Andy. I´m the happy-go-lucky fast-talker and the other Andy is the down-to-earth slow-talker. I play the stupid and the funny music and he plays the stupid and the angry music.
And then we had Wade calling-in from Brattleboro, Vermont. He does a real cool Exotica and Rock´n´Roll show on WVEW107.7 called Peel Slowly & See. Wade talked about how he does free-form radio in Brattleboro, how he prepares for his show and what it was like listening to the radio in the 60´s and 70´s. We agreed that we are both trying our best to revive that spirit and get rid of the lameness in today´s radio. Thanks Wade!
Before we come to the music, I added something to two posts lately:
While in Brooklyn in August I found a copy of the MAD magazine that ALF NEWMAN´s It´s a gas originally appeared in. I added the cover of the magazine and two more images. If you haven´t already done so, you should check out this record! It´s amazingly funny and it rocks and it rolls! You´ll find it here.
The second addition was four more songs by MARK RICHARDS AND THE SILVER KEYS. Stefan posted a Twist EP of MARK RICHARDS in one of his guest posts in July and now I posted another French picture-sleeve EP. It´s actually real cool black Rock´n´Roll. You´ll find both records here.
Now here´s the great KORAFAS!
Actually I know nothing about this big man from Greece. The only things I could make out from the back of the sleeve of this French EP is that Korafas not als sings ( in French and Italian) but also plays the piano on these songs. Kili Watch was a hit for Bob Azzam in France and also for the Belgian Instrumental group The Cousins. They were many other versions that year, among them one by Johnny Hallyday, but this version by the “Ulysses of the modern times” is probably the silliest. La gatta equals that with some cat´s meows thrown in…
KORAFAS est le conquérant hellène des rythmes modernes.
Bravo KORAFAS, tu es L´Ulysse des temps modernes.
As you probably know by now I usually put my best songs on top of the page. Not this time. This is the killer version of Kili Watch. The Cousins from Belgium sold 15.ooo copies of this record in 1960. I posted another real nice record by the Cousins in April here. About everything the Cousins ever recorded can be found on the Belgian Twist and Frit´Blog.
I can hear the instrumental Rock´n´Roll fanatics yawning already but for those of you who have never heard this, it´s a wonderfully silly Rock´n´Roll song with great guitar breaks.
Kili-Kili-Kili-Kili-Watch-Watch…
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I found this 45 at the flea-market last Saturday. My girlfriend and some friends were standing behind me and my girlfriend said: ” Are you buying records again? You bought 200 records in the US last month!! You´ve got flea-market-Verbot!!!”
Well, it was only 50 cents so I got it anyway from the old lady that sold it. I didn´t know what it was either but Fingers Lee sounded pretty close to Freddy “Fingers” Lee, the famous British Rockabilly pianist. Later at home a quick Internet check confirmed my assumption. And when the needle hit the record I was floored! PURE FUZZED-OUT BRITISH FREAKBEAT!!!
Freddy Fingers Lee was a regular on the British Rockabilly Scene in the 70´s and played with Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers. Because he only had one eye he always wore a eye-patch and his trademark cowboy hat. He cut many records and toured Europe extensively.
In the early 60´s he played with Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages and later moved to Hamburg where he played in the house-bands at the Top Ten and the Star Club. His own band, The Upper Hand included bassist Ian Patterson (Ian Hunter) and Pete Phillips on drums. Ian Hunter later joined Mott The Hoople.
Here´s a video of a legendary Freddy Fingers Lee performance doing “Lights Out”. Watch how he takes the axe and destroys the piano while all the British Teddy Boys cheer him on!!!
The Midnight Run appeared on Volume 9 of the Incredible Sound Show Stories compilation LP series that came out in the 90´s .
Oh yeah, it´s WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILD!!!!!!!
FINGERS LEE AND THE UPPER HAND, The Midnight Run, 1965
FINGERS LEE AND THE UPPER HAND, The Storm, 1965
This kinda fits with the Upper Hand record. I bought this a couple of month ago at a thrift store. It´s quite a beat-up copy but that´s why it was only 1 euro. It plays well and I play it a lot.
The Nix-Nomads from Ipswich attracted a devoted mod following and released only this single.
She´ll be sweeter than you is a stomping Rhythm & Blues influenced British Beat number while You´re nobody ´til somebody loves you , a Ray Charles cover, is slower but equally heavy.
She´ll be sweeter than you has been featured on the British R&B and the British Freakbeat comps.
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I know most of this week´s posts are in very bad taste but this music is from Berlin, has mostly been forgotten, is funny and the records have cartoon sleeves. Of course I love it!
Of The 3 Travellers Mischa Andrejew, Fred Oldörp and Eddie Rothé, only Oldörp was from Berlin, but they made a point of recording many songs dedicated to the city. Most of The 3 Travellers swinging stuff from the late 40´s and 50´s has been re-issued many times over the years whereas their later material, that they recorded as only the Travellers in the late 60´s and 70´s, has not.
By then they had developed into a German version of Homer & Jethro who jumped onto the sex-wave of the late 60´s. Though highly successful at the time these parodies of hit-songs 
only had a limited appeal.
Today The Travellers seem to have run their course.
Was trägt der Schotte unterm Rock? ( What does the Scotsman wear under his skirt?) is a parody-version of Rock around the Clock and Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Klärchens neuer Strand-Bikini is… guess what.
DIE TRAVELLERS, Was hat der Schotte unterm Rock?, 1967
DIE TRAVELLERS, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Klärchens neuer Strand-Bikini, 1967
This type of music and humour mostly appealed to more conservative-minded people. Old people. That was the Travellers´audience. Old people didn´t like Hippies but unlike Freddy Quinn who wrote and recorded one of the most aggressive German Anti-Hippie songs, the Travellers Romeo & Julia strikes a much more sympathetic tone.
These old guys kinda liked Hippies.
Strangely the chorus Wir (We) is the same in both songs, but they are different songs. Which came first I don´t know.
Both songs co-written by Hans Bradtke who also did the drawing.
Mamma zieh die Hot Pants an is about an old dude going to bed and then suggesting that his old lady wear some of those hip new Hot Pants. Sounds pretty bad but The Travellers even snuck a nice touch of fuzz guitar in there.
The A-side Der Pleitegeier is a cover of El Cóndor Pasa, with changed lyrics about being broke. How fitting in these times…
Most of the Travellers cartoon designs were done by the little-known cartoonist Werner Franke. A few others, like this one, were done by one of the Travellers´ songwriters Hans Bradtke. Bradtke wrote many hit songs for other artists but I still couldn´t find out anything about his cartooning.
DIE TRAVELLERS, Ein Bisschen Hausfrau, ein bisschen dufte Biene, 1969
With this the Travellers exploited the sex-wave head-on. He Leute, kauft bei Frau Beate ein! ( Hey People, go shop at Mrs Beate!) was referring to Beate Uhse, the world leader in sales of sexual-aids. The original Der Trödler Abraham was written and recorded by Wolfgang Hofer from Austria in 1970.
Equally cheerful is the Travellers version of Danyel Gérard´s German #1 hit-song Butterfly from 1971.
Oswalt Kolle was Germany´s most well-known sex-educator. Meine Olle liest den Kolle (My old Lady is reading Kolle) is about a housewife reading a Oswalt Kolle book to improve their sex life.
Sind Sie der Fürst von Liechtenstein? is about a guy wanting to escape to Liechtenstein because, among other things, there were too many protests in Berlin and students shouting Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh!
It gets worse and worse and I know you all skipped this week´s posts already. The Travellers recorded many more 45´s and Lp´s into the 70´s, some of the later period ones having full nude covers.
This is a cover-version of Whistling Jack Smith´s I was Kaiser Bill´s Batman with added lyrics. 
Det Korsett (The Corset) is an original by the Travellers sung in Berlin dialect.
About me:
My name is Andreas Michalke. I´m a Cartoonist from Berlin, Germany and I like collecting records. Most of the records I find in thrift stores or at flea markets here in Berlin. I like a lot of music but I thought I`d focus on odd German records. Preferably with cartoon covers.
All my scans are high-resolution. If you double-click on them they will get much bigger.
