It’s October in the San Fernando Valley. The lawns are turning brown, it’s a crisp 80 degrees and everything is on fire.
It can only mean one thing – time to unload a pile of German covers!
So here they are. Track after steaming track, laying here like so many blood sausages on a commemorative Kaiser Wilhelm platter. Everything from show tunes to pop songs, all in German, and some even performed by the original artists!
I’ve got some brand new German covers I’ve never posted (and I can only apologize for being tardy to the party) and a few you’ve heard before. But just because you suffered through it once doesn’t mean you’re off the hook.
And now there is nothing left to do but sit back with a tankard of Doppelbock, and let the melodies wash over us like so much duty-free cologne.
GERMAN COVERS:
Fever (Anita Lindblom) (3.09 MB)
Walk on By (Dionne Warwick) (2.54 MB)
I Only Want To Be With You (Dusty Springfield) (2.56 MB)
The Summer Wind (Little Peggy March) (3.22 MB)
Peppermint Twist (Caterina Valente & Silvio Francesco) (3.22 MB)
Some People – from Gypsy (Angelika Milster) (3.87)
Everything’s Coming Up Roses – from Gypsy (Angelika Milster) (3.58 MB)
Let Me Entertain You – from Gypsy (Susie Eisenkolb ) (2.55 MB)
Let’s Get Together – from The Parent Trap (Lill-Babs & Peter Alexander) (3.8 MB)
Beauty and the Beast (German cast) (2.70 MB)
Be Our Guest (Thierry Gondet, Simon Pohl) (3.38 MB)
The Lion King (German cast) (4.38 MB)
Radio Gaga (Ensemble Kolner Musical Dome) (3.38 MB)
Rock Me Amadeus (FMA) (3.75 MB)
Super Trouper (Carolin Fortenbacher, Jasna Ivir) (3.55 MB)
Sympathy (Marvin Gaye) (2.95 MB)
Tiny Bubbles (Anita Lindblom) (2.12 MB)
BONUS TRACK
I think this is Swedish. But let’s not look a gift pferd in the mund.
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning (Unknown) (1.11 MB)
Why do I feel so ashamed that I got April’s tardy to the party reference?
@ Girl – Dunno. You may have late arriving guilt trip or something.
Lord, these are funny! I am listening to the Lion King (German Cast) and am amazed at how hard they had to work to do it in German and keep it comprehensible.
German is not a pretty language (as in does not sound as nice as Spanish, French, English or many other languages) and mixing it up with Swahili, or whatever, is most amusing.
Small wonder Fredrick the Great preferred to speak French.
“Be My Guest” in German is strangely reminiscent of “Cabaret.”
I sent that last, nightmarish track to a friend who is a Swedish scholar. And, when she was done laughing her ass off, she confirmed that it is, indeed Swedish.
April, have you had a chance to see “Heisser Sommer” (Hot Summer), the East German beach party movie starring Chris Doerk, the DDR’s answer to Sally Field? Maddeningly catchy songs; and it’s on YouTube last I looked. (Watch out for the dancing haystacks.)
Don’t take the piss out of Lill Babs, she rocks. Where else in the world but Sweden could a 15 year old girl get knocked up and still go on to be a pop star and teen idol. Especially in the mid-fifties. She did a lot of German stuff around the early sixties because she was going out with Peter Kraus, the so-called German Elvis. There was a cute clip of the pair of them doing “Singing in the Rain” in German on You Tube a while back but it got pulled, although you can still find her doing “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” in Swedish. She’s still going strong, too, just ask Bill Murray who got him drunk and put him on the golf cart.
And the US didn’t just export songs to Germany, but whole singers too. Not just the Hofmeister, but have a look at a cuy named Gus Backus. He got sent to Germany in the fifties with the US army and struck it big over there. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6slvMwtiHNQ to see that you don’t have to be foreign to butcher songs that way.
I smell fish…or is that PEE
Is it me or does Anna Lisa Ingamasson sound like Wing singing in Swedish?
Since it is raining so hard in LA today, I hope AW is someplace where she doesn’t get mud-slid.
I’m sick and I was in the dentist chair for most of the morning, Then I turned on ‘the doctors’ and they were showing a new surgical procedure for hemorrhoids and what to do if you get eczema in your vagina. That made the novacane wear off real quick. I took some mucinex dm and napped. great fever dreams.
If april saw the same episode and there was nyquil at her house she may be dead to the world for a few days. However, she may become more enlightened for the whole experience.
I think I’m going to go eat a whole package of pre-cooked bacon now. 15 slices.
I forgot to mention that the doctors told us to put scotch
tape on our bungholes to look for pinworms.
I hope I didn’t dream that one up. I’ve been doing it ever since I got up from my nap. I’ve got seven pieces of tape already and I haven’t even made a doctor’s appointment to show them to him yet!!!
Mr. Porn is keeping himself busy!
http://www.cbtimages.com/?id=5400&Type=FRONT
(NSFW)
Speaking of Dr. You-Know-What, aren’t those “toy” awards coming up?
I mean the ones where AW was going to be a presenter or a hostess or something.
“aren’t those “toy” awards coming up?”
With the El Capitain currently showing “Toy Story” in 3-D
I have the perfect premise for the next movie:
TOY STORY 3: SEX TOYS!