the sounds of germany..the 70s

jonathon/aka"JOHN BOY" wrote:

the only sounds of the 70s i remember is some old guy yodelling or Mr Richard Clayderman
playing the piano( my old man had some strange taste in music back then) myself i hate to say it it was glam rock how times have changed

Hey....glam rock was cool -- then! David Bowie, Gary Glitter (the old perv!), Bay City Rollers, T-Rex (classic stuff, that! Especially Marc Bolan's first foray as T-Rex with "Electric Warrior").... some of us liked it as well as the heavy metal stuff (only back then it was called "progressive rock") like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, King Crimson (I loved In The Court of the Crimson King). I don't know if Emerson, Lake, and Palmer could rightly be classified as "heavy metal"....no....but "progressive" certainly. Ooooh, what a lucky man he was!!! Fantastic stuff....

Stephen Lock wrote:

jonathon/aka"JOHN BOY" wrote:

the only sounds of the 70s i remember is some old guy yodelling or Mr Richard Clayderman
playing the piano( my old man had some strange taste in music back then) myself i hate to say it it was glam rock how times have changed

Hey....glam rock was cool -- then! David Bowie, Gary Glitter (the old perv!), Bay City Rollers, T-Rex (classic stuff, that! Especially Marc Bolan's first foray as T-Rex with "Electric Warrior").... some of us liked it as well as the heavy metal stuff (only back then it was called "progressive rock") like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, King Crimson (I loved In The Court of the Crimson King). I don't know if Emerson, Lake, and Palmer could rightly be classified as "heavy metal"....no....but "progressive" certainly. Ooooh, what a lucky man he was!!! Fantastic stuff....

you forgot SWEET

jonathon/aka"JOHN BOY" wrote:

Stephen Lock wrote:

jonathon/aka"JOHN BOY" wrote:

the only sounds of the 70s i remember is some old guy yodelling or Mr Richard Clayderman
playing the piano( my old man had some strange taste in music back then) myself i hate to say it it was glam rock how times have changed

Hey....glam rock was cool -- then! David Bowie, Gary Glitter (the old perv!), Bay City Rollers, T-Rex (classic stuff, that! Especially Marc Bolan's first foray as T-Rex with "Electric Warrior").... some of us liked it as well as the heavy metal stuff (only back then it was called "progressive rock") like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, King Crimson (I loved In The Court of the Crimson King). I don't know if Emerson, Lake, and Palmer could rightly be classified as "heavy metal"....no....but "progressive" certainly. Ooooh, what a lucky man he was!!! Fantastic stuff....

you forgot SWEET

the music was cool as you say it was the fashion that was the problem

Don't recall SWEET....name some of the songs...or hum a few bars...oh, wait, that won't work! No audio here LOL

jonathon/aka"JOHN BOY" wrote:

Nutstrangler wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MnCzMduqg

This one appeared on the juke-boxes in most of the bars round Bunde when I was there.
*Achtung!*......Dodgy-looking dancer alert!

Strangler when were you posted to Lemgo

Hi Jon,was in Lemgo from 21/06/76 until 13/08/78, firstly with 2LI, then 1RWF. Was then posted to Hameln.

Must have been easy for you lads with the frauleins........ The sound we got from them in the 1950's usually was "Tommy go home!" Fair enough, we would agree with that but being there wasn't our idea, it wasn't possible . So we came up with an answer.........
" Wenn Tommy geht, kommt Ivan ". That usually made them think it could be worse. And the funny thing was that, when the regt was posted back to UK, there were plenty in Salisbury who also saw us as a threat to their daughters.

Stephen Lock wrote:

jonathon/aka"JOHN BOY" wrote:

the only sounds of the 70s i remember is some old guy yodelling or Mr Richard Clayderman
playing the piano( my old man had some strange taste in music back then) myself i hate to say it it was glam rock how times have changed

Hey....glam rock was cool -- then! David Bowie, Gary Glitter (the old perv!), Bay City Rollers, T-Rex (classic stuff, that! Especially Marc Bolan's first foray as T-Rex with "Electric Warrior").... some of us liked it as well as the heavy metal stuff (only back then it was called "progressive rock") like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, King Crimson (I loved In The Court of the Crimson King). I don't know if Emerson, Lake, and Palmer could rightly be classified as "heavy metal"....no....but "progressive" certainly. Ooooh, what a lucky man he was!!! Fantastic stuff....

Have to google all these names and check it out way to old for me.........

Heinje in the 'hit par rade' sang ' Mother of Mine'. Dana was big in the German Charts in the 70's too.

[quote="MEMORIES"]Heinje in the 'hit par rade' sang ' Mother of Mine'.   Dana was big in the German Charts in the 70's too.




Looks a little bit dated now, but he did have a good voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYCuxzk6swU

Wow look at that! Oh my. I used to watch that little boy singing on TV in Dortmund.
Used to remember using the 'shower tap' as a Microphone at Bathtime and singing, 'Young Girl' Gary Puckett and the Union Gap,  'Those were the days'  Mary Hopkin' 'Fox on the Run' - Manfred Man and loads of others including Massachussettes - Bee Gees, Leapy Lee - Little Arrows and Dizzy - Tommy Roe.  

Remember Scaffold - Lily the Pink, Lulu, Im a Tiger. Bands, the Troggs, The Tremoloes, everything was 'THE' before the band name. between sixties/early seventies. I loved Bowie and Bolan probably leant to more the commercial stuff as the 70s evolved but my brother was into Genesis 'Brain Salad Surgery' Edwin Starr, Deep Purple (Fantastic LP - Who do you think we are') just loved music.

The big hit on BFN and Forces Family Favourites in '54 was Oh Mein Papa by the Oberkirken Kinder Choir - How sad is that!! Funny thing was - it was not played on German radio and the German record shops had never heard of it.

Correction - it was the Obernkirchen Kinder Choir singing 'The Happy Wanderer' at least I got the year right!!

Cliffo wrote:

Correction - it was the Obernkirchen Kinder Choir singing 'The Happy Wanderer' at least I got the year right!!

I knew that. 

BAOR(27CIB)
The sounds of Germany, 50s
Tracing back Shelldrake's thread,  I remember  the entertainer at the Rot Muhle Klub (The Red Mill) in   Hannover trying to sing an American hit , The A,B,C, song, in a mixture of German  and English.  It was hilarious.  A bottle of French haute Sautern  may have contributed  to the hilarity. I have tried a number of times to locate the song on UTube  with no luck.
  ritter

ritter wrote:

BAOR(27CIB)
The sounds of Germany, 50s
Tracing back Shelldrake's thread,  I remember  the entertainer at the Rot Muhle Klub (The Red Mill) in   Hannover trying to sing an American hit , The A,B,C, song, in a mixture of German  and English.  It was hilarious.  A bottle of French haute Sautern  may have contributed  to the hilarity. I have tried a number of times to locate the song on UTube  with no luck.
  ritter

Bob, did you mean the German Alphabet song?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PRE26_B6aE

BAOR(27CIB)
the sounds of Germany 50's
Shelldrake, you are right on with  your correction about my elusive English search for the A,B,C, song.  I was able to navigate through your hyperlink and found it immediately on UTube.  It lists a number of German versions  for the song,  one being Das  Deutsche alphabet-ABC Lied.  I remember  the German entertainer getting  the patrons  at the club involved.  I have added the lied to my favorite song list on my BB Playbook.
    Thanks much,
     Bob