QUATSCHPARADE
Posted: February 19, 2023 Filed under: 30s, Cartoon Sleeves, Cowboy Records, Flexible Records, Promotional Records, Twist Records | Tags: Novelty Leave a commentI´m still buying way too many records. Here are just a bunch of (mostly) German Novelty 45s that I found this week. Some I had been looking for for a long time, some I didn´t know at all. You can listen to the Mix on Mixcloud: Quatschparade
ERICH FERSTL – Wilder Reiter (From soundtrack to the film Wilder Reiter GmbH, 1967)
ERICH FERSTL – Sumphonie (From soundtrack to the film Wilder Reiter GmbH, 1967)
THE GREEN DOGS – Macke-Macke-Meise (1966)
OLD SMUGGLERS – Haarig haarig (1970)
SPARTACO-SAX – Ne nous fachons pas (1965)
FERNAND RAYNAUD – Le twist de Fernand (1962)
PEPPO UND DIE PIPPIES – Oma Hipp (1973)
ANDY FISHER – Bunte Papageien und ein grünes Krokodil (1968)
DIE 2 PAPAGALLI – Lora
SYNCHRO ARCHIV – Demonstration 1
CHARLESTON HOT PEPPERS – Bald sind wir ein Paar (1961)
FRED GARTNER UND SEIN QUINTET – Der Eisenbahnschienen-Sägescheich von Kurdistan
ALICE BABS – Jodel-Boogie (1956)
ALICE BABS – Jodel-Jockel (1956)
ALICE BABS – Jodel Cha-Cha (1957)
DONN REYNOLDS AND THE TEXANS – Texas Jodle (1959)
SPIKE JONES AND HIS CITY SLICKERS WITH VOCAL REFRAIN BY HOMER AND JETHRO ASSISTED BY SIR FREDRICK GAS – Pal-Yat-Chee (1953)
EDDIE WILSON – Wahre Liebe fand ich erst am Neckarstrand (Original Starday Recording)
DAS SILBERSEE TRIO – Winnetous bester Freund (1963)
GUNNAR WIKLUND – Ich reite nach Hause (Detroit City)(1964)
BILL RAMSEY – Old Jonny war ein Wunderkind (1962)
HELMY`S HOT-CLUB – Rock´n “Roll-Mops”
DIE CONTINENTALS – Oh Mister Brown (was macht ihr Harem?)(1962)
DIE CONTINENTALS – Hüh-A-Hoh (Wheels)(1960)
DIE CLO-SCHAHS – Die Lage ist beschissen (1971)
ORCHESTER WOLF GABBE – Kleine Fische
HANNA LOREN – Melodie D´Amour
KLAUS SCHLAPPNER – Schlappi-Räp (1985)
RUMPELSTITZ – Kiosk (1977)
BING WITTCAMP UND DIE KAKADUS – Ja, der Johannes (1968)
HEIDI KABEL – Tratschen tu ich nich´ (1966)
FRED FERKEL UND DIE SCHWEINEBANDE – Wenn einer eine Reise macht (1980)
PAVEIER – Der weisseste Mann am Strand (1987)
DE DINGS UND DE DINGSBUMS – Hello, Old Germany (1990)
PAUL KUHN – Snoopy (1969)
COCO SCHUMANN UND SEINE SOLISTEN – Taverna Del Corsar
Kenn´ Se den?
Posted: March 25, 2018 Filed under: 50s, Berlin Records, Cartoon Sleeves, Comedy, Flexible Records, Promotional Records 1 Comment
Two weeks ago, I found this record at a Berlin record convention. This promotional flexi-disc for the Berlin tobacco company of Otto Boenicke fits the framework of Berlin Beatet Bestes perfectly. The front side of the record was illustrated by Helmut Nickel. Nickel, an outstanding stylist in the German post-war adventure comic genre, was known for his instantly recognizable black and white pen work. This gouache style illustration shows, he was very good with color, too.
Born March 24, 1924 in Dresden, Helmut Nickel fought in WW II, was a prisoner of war for three years and left East-Germany for West-Berlin in 1948. To finance University, Nickel started illustrating various comics series in 1952. From 1952 to 1964 he worked on a whole series of comics, such as Robinson, Hot Jerry, Titanus, Die 3 Musketiere, Der Graf von Monte Christo and Peter’s seltsame Reisen.
( Robinson No. 84, page 11, 1958. From the collection of Hansi Kiefersauer.)
Informed by his studies, Nickel´s comics were educational, at a time when comics were still regarded as trash that was subverting the children. After finishing University in 1959, Nickel worked in a Berlin museum and then applied for a job at the New York Metropolitan Museum as a curator of the historical weapons collection. He stayed there until his retirement in 1989. Today he lives in Florida.
In 2011 Helmut Nickel was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Munich Comic Festival. Yesterday, Helmut Nickel turned 94.
The Helmut Nickel-side of this flexi is a tongue-in-cheek narration admiring the beautiful brown body of a Boenicke cigar…
Boenicke-Rumba (The song doesn´t have a title. I just called it that.)
Like many flexi discs that I´ve posted over the years this was also published by the Phonocolor company of Berlin-Lichterfelde. Phonocolor also issued the Okay Exquisit, Rondo and Topas labels.
While the Rumba-side runs at 45 rpm, the side with the cigar smoking middle-aged gentlemen runs at 33 rpm. Compared to the comissioned front, this looks like a stock illustration. The male and female narrators sound like Berlin cabaret Die Stachelschweine. Five jokes interrupted by some boogie woogie piano. Kenn´ Se den? Have you heard this one? …
THE GRADUATES, L.O.V.E & Bachelor Party
Posted: October 29, 2017 Filed under: 70´s, Disco Records, Flexible Records, Promotional Records, South Africa, World Leave a comment
Found this one-sided promotional flexi disc for Triumph´s Blues – Disco Bras in Bruxelles last year. No information about the origin of the Graduates, but from the accent of DJ John Bright who introduces the group, I´d guess they´re from South Africa.
Two funky tunes advertizing for bras. Disco bras….
THE GRADUATES, L.O.V.E. & Bachelor Party
BLUEJEAN-JENNY, Rumpelstilzchen-Boogie, 1958
Posted: October 27, 2017 Filed under: 50s, Berlin Records, Flexible Records, Germany, Rock´n´Roll Records Leave a comment
Rumpelstilzchen-Boogie is a German cover version of Lou Monte´s Someone Else Is Taking You Home. The German lyrics, written by Klaus Doll and Nicolaus Hix, are completely unrelated to the original and were probably made to fit the kiddie rock´n´roll concept.
The Berlin ultra-budget flexi-label Rondo took over both sides from the Austrian Harmona 3-D label. Changing the pseudonym from Bluejean-Jenny to Susanne, the sides were also released in Austria by Schallplattengilde Gutenberg. Discogs and various German collector-sites accredit both releases to Susanne Adorjan, most likely because she was the only Susanne in the roster of both labels.
Rumpelstiltskin-Boogie…
BLUEJEAN-JENNY, Rumpelstilzchen-Boogie
Bluejean Cinderella was originally recorded by the The Peewees (a group of kids!) for Josie Records. German lyrics were written by Horst de Gray and Tambour, who also wrote similar teenage material in 1958 for Austrian Rocker Robert Benett (“Das freu´t mich so” (Jive after Five – Carl Perkins), “Insgeheim” (Secretly -Jimmie Rogers) and “Total Verrückt” (All Shook Up – Elvis).
BLUEJEAN-JENNY, Bluejean Cinderella
PICTURESQUE BELGIUM
Posted: October 5, 2016 Filed under: 50s, Belgium, Flexible Records 2 Comments
Bye Bye Brussels! I´m returning to Berlin after 10 Days in the city together with the staff of Jungle World. Our “Belgium Issue” will hit the newsstands next Thursday.
Rescued a bunch of “Discocarte”- postcard records on the Marolles flea market last Sunday, shortly before I saw the rest of the box getting destroyed in the rain. Kinda sad, kinda not. Most people who´ve never seen a postcard record, seem to like the idea. Like an E-mail with a picture and an MP3 attached. Only much cooler!
Until they hear the music …
Liechtensteiner Polka
The small scanner is not in the picture, but you can see me digitizing postcard records at our house in Brussels with my portable record player:
SUSKE & WISKE, De Regendag, 1978
Posted: October 3, 2016 Filed under: 70´s, Belgium, Cartoon Sleeves, Comics, Flexible Records, Promotional Records 3 Comments
It´s been raining quite a bit here in Brussels over the past days, so here´s a record about “A Rainy Day”. Suske & Wiske is one of the most famous and successful Belgian comics series. Since its creation in 1945, it sold 145 million copies. This promotional multi-media item for kids, produced for German food brand Knorr, is a good example of Belgian multilingualism. Side A is in Flemish and side B is in French. The four-page comic insert also has speech balloons in both languages, so you can read along while you listen to the record.
If this very thin Flexi-Disc only contained spoken word adventures of Suske & Wiske, I wouln´t have recorded them. Instead, there´s a funny little tune mixed into the story. Kinda power-pop meets nerve-racking noise…
SUSKE & WISKE, De Regendag, 1978
BOB & BOBETTE, La Pluie, 1978
CELAL İNCE, Dostluk Şarkısı (The Song of Friendship)
Posted: August 31, 2016 Filed under: 50s, Flexible Records, Political Records, Turkey Leave a comment
In May, I bought this flexi disc at a flea market in Istanbul. It wasn´t really cheap but I didn´t mind. I was on vacation and wasn´t going to pass on a 10″ flexi disc that runs on 78RPM. When I saw it, I immediately though: “blog!” But I didn´t listen to it until I got home. Then I did a little online research.
The record has Cold War written all over it. At the time of its release, Turkey was a buffer zone against the Soviet empire. Tens of thousands of these propaganda flexis – recorded and pressed in the Unites States by Voice Of America – were given away for free. From the feeling and graphics of the flexi, I´d guess in the midlle of the 1950s. It takes us back to the Turkey of films like From Russia With Love (1963) and Topkapi (1964), a country in-between modernism and tradition. Only, this record is not dramatized fiction, but real.
Celal İnce, born in 1921, was the king of Turkish tango in the 40s and 50s. In the in the late 50s he immigrated to the US and has lived in Chicago ever since. İnce was in the wine business for forty years and now, aged 95, is still working as an executive wine consultant. Recently Celal İnce´s Sana Nerden Gönül Verdim was featured on „Istanbul Tango 1927-1953“, the fourth volume of the German CD compilation series Old World Tangos. The series is illustrated by none other than Berlin underground cartoonist and fine art painter Guido Sieber.
In the anthemic marching song Dostluk Şarkısı, Celal İnce praises the friendship of Turkey and the United States: “We were blood brothers in Korea/Our determination is to live free , to ensure peace in the world”. It might be full of pathos and propaganda, but I can think of worse causes. The Voice Of America probably did more damage to dictatorships by broadcasting Jazz music to Eastern Europe, than all the missiles they planted near the borders.
Whatever, it´s still only a pop song…
CELAL İNCE, Dostluk Şarkısı (The Song of Friendship)
The flip features some words by Namik Kemal on Turkish history and quotes of Franklin Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Ziya Gökalp.
Hürriyet Hakkında Meşhur Sözler
Some footage of the old Yeşilköy Airport, now Istanbul Atatürk International Airport, from From Russia With Love (1963)
Footage of Istanbul street life in 1964 from Topkapi (1964):
I bought some more Akbaba magazines while I was in Istanbul. This issue from March 3rd 1962, depicting US-sailors in Turkey, seems to tie in with the above record. The bold nudity is surprising for an Islamic country. The sexism and racism are not. This type of cartooning was pretty common in the 50s and early 60s all over the world.
The cover and the next two cartoons are by Necmi Riza. The cartoon below is about the Turkish Coup d´etat that took place on May 27, 1960. The politician is waiting for the military to kick his ass.i
This one is obviously about Elisabeth Taylor standing with her lawyer in court.
This issue also has this cartoon by Yurdaer Kalayci.
Yazisiz means “Without words”.
Ein neuer Schlager… , 1961
Posted: February 23, 2016 Filed under: 60s, Flexible Records, Germany, Promotional Records Leave a comment
A couple of years ago, I posted a song celebrating the advantages of polyester. While the 4 Cravattos were praising Trevira, this 2-sided flexible record is promoting Diolen. Back then I wrote: ” Today trying to find synthetic clothes from the 1950s is much harder than finding flexible vinyl advertisement records from the same time.”
While that still is right, don´t get the wrong idea. These promotional flexis are still mostly worthless, because there is no market for them. Still, I bet some idiot will offer a copy on ebay soon – for 20 Euros. Of course nobody ever buys these flexi discs for 20 Euros. There´s only a handful collectors of flexis. I´m one of them and I never pay more than 1 Euro.
When will they ever learn,
that records like this one belong in the free-box….
…die neue Krawatte aus Diolen mit vielen Vorzügen und einer großen Spezial-Werbung
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 Beatet Bestes 
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