who never fell in love with this beautiful young lady in the 70s,the best german female singer i ever heard...graham...

here is another of marieannes songs,all i need now is a large iserlohner pils and a frikedelle mit senf,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhXixDOzwE

how did you find time to watch tele, i was too busy eating drinking and chasing women,dave.

if you wanted a german girlfriend you had to know what was in the german charts and at least attempt to learn to dance like a german in the local disco...graham..

thinking about it,we [soldiers] were barred from decent places, in detmold anyway,and the nice girls never went to dives,dave.

Plus, a good solid German family would be horrified to learn their Kleine Maedchen was dating a....gasp!!....squaddie! Good grief, I know of good solid British Army families that did everything in their power to prevent their girls from dating any of you lot! LOL

Mind you, it wasn't much different with Canadian soldiers, either.

The thing was, the fathers of these girls were, at one time, young single soldiers themselves so they totally understood what was going on, at least from the young single soldiers perspective.

What was of course ironic, and nobody seemed to want to explore, was the very mothers who came on as rampaging she-bears upon finding out their daughters were dating soldiers, had married soldiers themselves! Interesting what a generation's gap will do.

We had a few of "our girls" date soldiers but mainly they seemed to gravitate towards German guys, much to the chagrin of most of the Canadian teenage boys looking for girlfriends LOL

Oddly enough, while it was not uncommon for Canadian teenage girls to acquire a German boyfriend, few Canadian teenage boys acquired a German girlfriend. Not sure what that was about.

This first number is a hauntingly great number I remember from Germany. It's something I would think that would past muster at any funeral for a veteran or serving member.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWfyexuyrQ&feature=fvw


This next one I remember coming out in the 60's. It was always a favourite to be played in the Gasthof. The thing is I remember it being sung by a tenor not a bass as is done here. The pirated Dutch version is done by a tenor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBfZIZzypo&feature=relate

Now this one was always great fun to listen to. As we would all make great rounding motions over our stomachs indicating a pregnacy. Yes Memories of Heidelburg are Memories of you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgkp8NcBnrg

Of course one may have enjoyed Amanda Lear who had a big following in Germany in the seventies and still pulls a crowd today.

"Was He or wasn't She, that is the question?"

Umm! Pity I am too late to ask Salvador Dali.

Admitantly, I did like the voice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyV_QqWuNNY&feature=related

I was always puzzled by the Germans and their music preferences. Here is another, 'Heino.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Yk1xpoJvg

Heino, geeze I'd forgotten all about him. Didn't he wear those dark glasses all the time to hide big buggy eyes?

hardrations you are my hero,you have just posted one of what is up there in my top ten favourite tunes,[i remember edie calvert got to no 1 on top of the pops with that tune].another tune out about the same time was, the legions lost patrol,dave.

Boney M

German based and managed and very popular in the 70s."Rivers of Babylon" at their Halle Munsterland concert-magic, as we used to say

now i wonder how many will actually admit to tapping their feet in time to the music,dave.

thats the one,cant be in london but if you ever make it to the sage in gateshead your more than welcome to a coffee break,dave.