FAMILY, Die kleine Band, 1977
Posted: February 26, 2009 Filed under: 70´s, Private Pressings | Tags: Bear Family Records, Heinsberg, Pirate Radio 4 Comments »
As I`ve written before what I`m really looking for at flea-markets and in thrift stores are records I´ve never seen before by artists I`ve never heard of. When I`ve found a record that I like, I mostly check the Internet first. If it has
been re-issued on Cd or is available as download then I don`t post it. If on the other hand nobody has ever cared to re-issue a record for 20 , 30, 40 or 50 years I figure it`s about time somebody did.
Over the past 30 years Bear Family Records has re-issued most of the interesting German 20th Century`s Pop music that was released on major labels like Polydor, Ariola and Telefunken. That still leaves a lot of independent releases, budget labels, advertisement records, flexi discs and private pressings for me to work with.
Which leads me to this record here by a mystery group from Heinsberg, North Rhine Westphalia very close to the Dutch border. Not a word about them or their self-released record to be found on the Internet. The song “Die kleine Band” tells the story of their little amateur band , how they made a record and how success was not the motivating factor behind it but having a good time: they were the band that everyone in town knew. Very sweet really.
“Oldies But Goldies” is a County song about the pirate radio show of singer Karl-Heinz that aired every Saturday on 101.5 FM from 10 to 2.30 a.m. It even mentions how they are always in danger of beeing shut down by the police but that spinning records is a wonderful hobby that they are proud of. Holland had a lot of pirate radio stations in the 60`s and 70`s and it`s great that this small town had one station too. Today Heinsberg has a small Punk scene but any trace of the little band is long gone.
Luckily at least one copy of this Family record miraculously made it to Berlin…
FAMILY, Oldies But Goldies, 1977
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.
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Berlin scheint ja ne echte Fundgrube zu sein. Vielleicht stolperst Du ja mal über Sunny Logemann oder A&M Two Generation?!
Berlin ist Plattentechnisch viel geiler als Hamburg, wo ich aufgewachsen bin. Dafür haben hier auch immer noch mehr Leute ihre Finger in der selben Kiste in der ich gerade gucke und suchen ALLE nach Soul, Beat und Punk. Wenigstens hab ich so bislang noch den ganzen Outsider-Abfall für mich…
Sollte ich mal auf Sunny Logemann oder A&M Two Generation stoßen, schick ich`s in deine Richtung.
Alles Gute
Andreas
dass ich das noch erleben darf……man spricht in Berlin von Heinsberg und seiner grandiosen Musikszene ….DANKE !!!! Als eschte Heinsbergerin bin ich hin und weg….
Ulla
Hurra, endlich hat mir jemand zumindest mp3s von Sunny Logemann zur Verfügung gestellt – und es klingt noch unglaublicher als vermutet!