This song is a strange hybrid of the German genre of  Stimmungsmusik, used for parties and for the Karneval, and Rock´n´Roll. These two musical styles usually didn´t mix because of the generation gap. Stimmungsmusik, mostly marches with sleazy lyrics, was music for old people. Squares.

Well, this slightly rocks. Textil-Sparverein means Textile Savers Club. Minikini is about a guy complaining about his girlfriend because she is not wearing a Bikini. She is wearing a Minikini – no Bikini. Nimm keine Frau aus Kansas is a silly Cowboy song. Don´t take a woman from Kansas, because she carries guns when you´re kissing…

In 1964 the Bambis from Austria hit with Mini-kini-Baby. The lyrics were similar: a guy is telling his girlfriend, you can wear a Mini-Kini,  but only when we´re alone…

Squares.

DER TEXTIL-SPARVEREIN, Minikini, 1964

DER TEXTIL-SPARVEREIN, Nimm keine Frau aus Kansas, 1964

This is German Ska music, a cover version of the reggae classic  Shame & Scandal. Botho Lucas was the founder of the Botho-Lucas-Chor, who had a long career recording and performing.

Lyrically this German version stays pretty close to the original:

The story follows a young Trinidadian man in search of a wife. In each of the verses, the young man asks his father for permission to marry a different woman, only to be told he can’t marry the girl as “The girl is your sister but your mamma don’t know”. However, the tables are turned during the last verse, where the young man’s mother tells him that “Your daddy ain’t your daddy, but your daddy don’t know”, clearing the path for him to marry any of the girls. (Wikipedia)

The b-side, sung by the whole group, is a silly song about a guy drinking and then seeing little white mice.

BOTHO LUCAS, Uns´re kleine feine Familie, 1965

DER BOTHO LUCAS-CHOR, Ja, die kleinen weißen Mäuse, 1965

The British group Brian Diamond and the Cutters recorded this German version of their own song Big Bad Wolf for the German Vogue label. It was their 4. single out of five. The German songwriter left the title: little woman don´t be afraid of the big bad wolf. But a lot of the wolf metaphors are missing in the German version. Thankfully musically it´s just as rockin´.

Like many other Rock´n´Roll  wolf songs (Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs´Lil´Red Riding Hood, Lord Dent and his Invaders´Wolf Call ) this has a great wolf call and guitar break…

BRIAN DIAMOND AND THE CUTTERS, Keine Angst Little Woman, 1965

BRIAN DIAMOND AND THE CUTTERS, Daisy Lu, 1965

Last week I found a record in a local thrift store that is exactly the kind I had in mind when I started Berlin Beatet Bestes:  silly, German and with a cartoon sleeve. It even rocks.

I posted the first Malepartus II. record last November. This, the second Malepartus II. single, was recorded by an entirely different band to cash-in on the success of  Lisbeth, a cover version of Wild Thing. The original Malepartus II. group was actually the Kingbeats from Frankfurt. Their drummer Jürgen Zöllner later joined BAP and is still playing with them.

The cartoon sleeve was drawn by Will Halle, a cartoonist from Berlin. I already wrote a bit about him here.

Both songs stay within the initial novelty concept of mixing primitive Troggs-style Beat with silly German lyrics sung in the Hessian dialect. Fraa, bring de Äppelbrei! is about a hungry kid demanding his apple porridge. Ei Lorche is even more silly with lots of funny noises and lyrics about a parrot called Lorche that is driving his master crazy because it is talking too much.

MALEPARTUS II., Ei Lorche, 1966

MALEPARTUS II., Fraa, brind de Äppelbrei!, 1966

Thanks for all the mails that I got from concerned readers. I was mostly occupied with the weekly Berlin Beatet Bestes radio show and the weekly Berlin Beatet Bestes column that I write for Jungle World. They are just spin-offs of this blog but they took up most of my free time. One can only work so much.

The radio shows were a lot of fun. On Tuesday we talked with Martin, who does Brotbeutel blog, on the phone for 90 minutes. He played some of his weirder music off his blog and in general seemed like a really nice guy. I had never met him and it was a pleasure to talk with someone who had inspired me to start this blog.

Then last week we had Peter Schimmelpfennig on the show. His biography is quite impressive but he is most well-known for producing and managing East-German Rock groups Karat, Puhdys and City in West-Germany in the 70´s and 80´s. Originally from Hamburg, he was a regular at the Star-Club in the 60´s  and then moved to Berlin in 1963 to work for the independent record label Metronome when he was only 19. In the 70´s he started his own record label Pool records. His most successful artist was Georg Kranz. Surprisingly he also made a record with Horst Koch, a re-recording of Lachen called Rocklachen. I only saw the record in the bag of records that Peter brought to the show, but we didn´t get to play it. Now I have to find that record.

Peter Schimmelpfennig also produced the Berlin Rock group Bel Ami. I posted one of their records here. Andy actually got Peter to call up Lutz Walzberg, their original vocalist, in the show. I thought it was a little pushy but Peter assured us that it was okay and that they were still friends after more than 25 years. It was really great talking to Lutz. Altough he is paralysed and tied to the bed because of multiple sclerosis he sounded very energetic. He still knew the Turkish lyrics to Bel Ami´s hit song Berlin bei Nacht (the one I´ve posted) and even started to sing them. Cool!

Before I´ll get to the music, I`d like to announce that we´re doing AUKTION/DESTRUKTION again today, Friday, November 20th at the Kollage, Yorckstrasse 22 in Kreuzberg. Show starts at 10. This time Mario is joining me. We´ll be spinning, auctioning and destroying 45´s again – rarities, hits and total garbage. Starting bids are 10 cents.

Also,  Kleingeld nicht vergessen! Ich hab diesmal wirklich schöne Platten in der Kiste!

I found another Bernhard Frank 45 recently. Actually I saw it on Ebay and then had a friend of mine, who regularly buys stuff there,  bid on the record for me. Sometimes I look  at records on Ebay to check prices and to see what is being offered. But when it comes to buying records I go to thrift-stores and flea-markets. At least there I can see the record up close. From the blurry picture on Ebay this record didn´t look too promising. Nothing like the great Beat records Bernhard Frank did in the 60´s but I kept my fingers crossed and took a chance.

When the record finally came in the mail I was very happy. As I´ve written before, Bernhard Frank only wrote good songs. These two songs are no exception. Obviously by the mid-70´s he had developed into a Folk singer. Der Zirkusdirektor is about a ringmaster at a circus, a melancholy tale that takes a rather surprizing turn. The B-side Einmalig is a funny up-beat tune with great lyrics.

BERNHARD FRANK, Der Zirkusdirektor, 1974

BERNHARD FRANK, Einmalig, 1974

In October I spent two weeks in Cyprus together with the staff of Jungle World. Each year Jungle World goes to another country to produce a issue while they stay there. This year it was Cyprus. I wrote my column that week about my record digging in Cyprus and also contacted local cartoonists to include in our Cyprus issue. We had a lot of fun and spent a great time on the island.

This record I found in a little thrift store that I stumbled upon when I was taking a walk in the area where we stayed. Pretty much a residential area right by the sea. It was off season, I was surprised that the store was open at all. I took this because of the cartoon sleeve. I don´t know anything about the record besides that it is from Israel.

Last weekend marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Cyprus is still devided into a Turkish and a Greek area. Israel has a wall that seperates the Palestinians and the Israelis. So in a strange way this is my contribution to the fall of the wall – to the fall of all walls.

The female singer is singing two really nice songs in Hebrew. I bet somebody out there knows who she is and can translate the titles of the songs. Please, does anybody know?

For the time being I´ll call them:

Tango Song

Cha Cha Song

While on the island another journalist from Jungle World  bought this Everybody dances the Sirtaki LP to review it in our Cyprus issue. When it was time to go back home he wanted to leave it in one of our bungalows so I had mercy with it and took it.

Most of it is pretty lame traditional Sirtaki music but I still kinda like the first and the very last songs on the LP. Especially the ultra fast Baxe Tsifliki is great for twisting. But then it gets reeeeeally fast and I guess everybody always lost their balance and that´s why it needs to be the last song…

AKIS LYMOURIS, Gloudy Sanday, 1962

AKIS LYMOURIS, Baxe Tsifliki, 1962

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 -

Beschreibung : Hier eine sehr gut erhaltene original schwedische JEP ” Joker ” EP 8004 von 1960, mit 4 tollen Classic Folklore Songs aus der Karibik ( mit südamerikanischen Elementen ) einer gebürtigen Pariserin “ Stella Felix ” deren Vorfahren aus Martinique in der Karibik stammen. Die Sängerin hatte in den 40er Jahren sehr große Erfolge in Europa, sodaß diese schwedische 7´ EP mit ihren Songs 1960 nochmals auf den Markt kam. Sie begann 1948 eine professionelle Karriere als Sängerin in Cannes bei dem bekannten Musik – Festival und hatte da mit ihren Songs so großen Erfolg, sodaß Sie vor allem in den scandinavischen Ländern sehr gut ankam. Das große Vorbild von Stella war damals “ Josefine Baker “, die ebenfalls zu der Zeit tolle Erfolge feierte. Die Musik glänzt durch südamerikanische Elemente mit allem was dazu gehört und ist mit Folkloristischen Klängen aus der Karibik vermischt worden, sodaß sich ein einmaliges Klangbild durch erstklassige Handwerksmusik und vor allem der Gesang von “ Stella “ ergibt. Für einen Musik – Liebhaber der auf handgemachtes, ohne jegliche Elektronic oder sonstige Verfälschung steht, sicher eine anhörendswerte Scheibe die dadurch sicher zu einem Hörgenuss der besonderen Art wird.

Haro ( Partenheim )

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…

ELLEN SABRI, He-He Herr Mayer was macht die Lust, 1970

ELLEN SABRI, Pornoparadies Dänemark, 1970

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…

GRAF KOKS, Made in Germany, 1966

GRAF KOKS, Mariechen sass auf einem Stein, 1966

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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