Billy Vaughn was one of the most famous American orchestra leaders of the 50s and 60s and was especially successful in Germany. I still see his 1961 hit-record “Wheels” in every Thrift-store that i go to. The cover of the German edition of this record, however was drawn by Ole Jensen, a native Berliner.
Ole Jensen was born October 9th 1924 in Berlin. The introduction to his 1965 book “Kopf des Tages, Kopf der Woche, Köpfe der Zeit” was written by his friend and Colleague H.J.Stenzel (see my second post ). Just like Stenzel, Jensen is pretty much forgotten today, even among contemporary Berlin cartoonists, but was fairly popular in the late 50s to mid-60s. He appeared regularly on local Berlin TV doing high-speed sketches.
Just like me today, these guys were in their late 30s to early 40s, but had been raised in Nazi Germany, had been to war and were now shaping or echoing the German sense of humour of the post war time.
BILLY VAUGHN,Humoresque Boogie
( Ein kleiner, von mir auf deutsch geschriebener Text über Billy Vaughn und Ole Jensen, erschien am 23. Juli 2009 in der Wochenzeitung Jungle World.
Im Internet zu lesen ist er hier. )
Tags: Adenauer, Bop Hope, Elvis, H.J.Stenzel, Hildegard Knef, Ole Jensen
November 6, 2008 at 1:00 am
[...] The caricature of Willi Brandt is by the local Berlin cartoonist Ole Jensen( see my post about him here) [...]
February 10, 2009 at 1:59 am
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February 10, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Leider englische Text kann ich nicht verstehen.
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Ferdinánd László
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