Benny de Weille

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Benny de Weille (born March 6, 1915 in Lübeck , † December 17, 1977 on Sylt ) was a German swing clarinetist , composer, arranger , band leader and music producer.

Life

De Weille's musical role model was Benny Goodman . In the early years of his career he played in Dutch orchestras. After his studies, which he completed in the Netherlands, among other places, he moved to Berlin in 1938, where he initially worked as a swing musician with Teddy Stauffer and his Original Teddies. In the 1930s, he and his bar trio played swinging popular music. Among other things, in 1938, shortly after the publication of Ella Fitzgerald's world success “A Tisket - A Tasket”, he added this piece to his repertoire as an instrumental version. From 1940 he played records with various big bands, a. a. with Heinz Burzynski . In 1942 he brought out his own composition, "Mein Herz geht auf", for which Ralph Maria Siegel had provided the text. At Odeon in 1943 he published an elegantly swinging instrumental version of the Ernst Erich Buder film composition Today the whole world is making music for me . He also worked with Freddie Brocksieper . He played the clarinet in the big band Charlie and His Orchestra , a propaganda band from the Nazi era . In addition to Brocksieper and de Weille, the Big Band also included Willy Berking and Helmut Zacharias . In 1944 he composed the seaman's song Hau ruck, Hau ruck, min Seemann .

After the end of the Second World War he worked in Frankfurt with changing musicians for the Hessischer Rundfunk . Then he went to NWDR to eventually become Production Manager at Polydor . In this role he accompanied vocalists such as Friedel Hensch , Dorle Rath and Renée Franke with a studio orchestra . In 1951 he recorded the waltz song If you don't know a girl with Lale Andersen and his dance orchestra . The CD Benny de Weille and his dance orchestra contains classics from the 1940s and 1950s with titles such as Ich hab 'eine Schwenke für Blond Frau'n (1940) Midnight on the Congo (1948) and Farewell, little Rosemarie (1944) with artists like Friedel Hensch, Margot Hielscher and Heinz Erhardt , who sang together with Renée Franke Baby es rnet yet (1950) by Frank Loesser . His shellac records with titles such as O Donna Juanita and O, la la (B-side), Gesang Dorle Rath and Heinz Woezel are still traded, as is the record Benny de Weille published by Polydor and his soloists with the titles Schade , Yesterday you were sweet , like chocolate , mom, that's a mistake with Ruth Bruck's singing. He composed the tango Let us dream on Lake Maggiore , slow waltzes like Holdrioh, liebes Echo , So long (The Song of Old Joe) and arranged Franz Grothe titles like Ich hab 'so an Animus .

In 1951 he starred as the band leader in the film Come On First ; in Under the Thousand Lanterns of 1952 he was an orchestra conductor. Benny de Weille also wrote film music for the 1953 film Street Serenade and the 1955 film Music, Music and Just Music .

From his marriage to a Dutch woman, he had a daughter, Kamille Lilly van Heel, who was born in 1938. With the Italian-German singer and actress Nana Gualdi (1932–2007) he had the son Bernard (* 1958).

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Early Years (English)
  2. ↑ "My heart goes up", music: Benny de Weille, text: Ralph Maria Siegel, vocals: Sven-Olof Sandberg, Odeon O-26604, 1942, matrix number: Be 13195
  3. ↑ “Today the whole world makes music for me!”, Music: Ernst Erich Buder, text: Bruno Balz , Odeon O-31720a, 1943, matrix number: Be 13331
  4. ↑ The autograph is in the archive of the Leipzig music publisher Benjamin in the Saxon State Archive in Leipzig .
  5. ↑ Lale Andersen: If you don't know a girl , recorded on January 9, 1951 in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lale-andersen.de
  6. ^ Benny de Weille as arranger of Franz Grothe titles
  7. ↑ Films 1951 and 1952 (English)
  8. ^ Film music by Benny de Weille In: Zweiausendeins Lexikon des Internationale Films
  9. ↑ Daughter Kamille Lilly van Heel (English)
personal data
SURNAME Weille, Benny de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weill, Benny de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swing clarinetist, composer, arranger, band leader and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1977
Place of death Sylt