Carmela Corren

Carmela Corren (1960)

Carmela Corren (1960)

Carmela Corren (1960)

Carmela Corren ( Hebrew כרמלה קורן; born Carmela Bizman on February 13, 1938 in Tel Aviv ; died January 16, 2022 ) was an Israeli pop singer and actress .

Biography and artistic career

Carmela Corren wanted to be a dancer from an early age and began training in Israel at the age of 15 . Due to an injury, however, she was no longer able to practice dance and switched to singing. American television producer Ed Sullivan discovered her in 1956 during an engagement in Jerusalem . Carmela was doing her military service in the Israeli army at the time. The entertainer persuaded her and brought her to his show in New York . She went with Cliff Richardon tour through South Africa and sang in English clubs. Later, the artist acted in several music and Heimat films as well as television productions.

At the beginning of the 1960s, Corren also became known in Germany , Switzerland and Austria . She first sang for the Ariola label, moving to Vogue in 1966 and Decca in 1968 . With the song Eine Rose aus Santa Monica she reached seventh place at the German Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden in 1962. The record then stayed in the hit parades for several weeks. Corren had her greatest success with it and achieved her breakthrough on the German-speaking Schlager market. In 1963 she represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest in London with the song Maybe a miracle happens , where she came seventh.

In the mid-1960s, Ariola released her first LP in Germany: Carmela Corren International with songs, ballads, chansons and evergreens in German, English, French, Spanish and Greek. In 1974 the LP Raindrops was released , with songs by Burt Bacharach in Hebrew. A disco version of the Hebrew folk song Hava Nagila followed in 1979 .

From 1966 to 1970 the singer was married to the music producer Horst Geiger. The short marriage produced a daughter and a son. Since the 1980s, the remarried Corren has largely retired from show business in Florida. On rare occasions she sang at Jewish festivals.

Discography (singles)

From page	catalog no.	publication
	Ariola
Don't be sad, dear mama / Life always goes on	45141	June 1961
A Rose from Santa Monica / Somehow it just keeps going	45270	February 1962
The night is so beautiful / When will the day come	45269	June 1962
Hava Naghila / My Shtetele Belz	45344	July 1962
Surabaya / Blue Wind of Mexico	45434	Nov 1962
The fine gentleman / Don't turn around	45453	December 1962
Maybe a miracle will happen / Always You	10218	May 1963
Who looks into your eyes / Three white sails	10220	May 1963
Roses have thorns / Mandolino, sing	10358	October 1963
Once luck gives us its hands / The song we sang	10610	March 1964
It all comes again / In your arms the world is so beautiful	10756	Aug 1964
Saying goodbye hurts so much / I don't need much to be happy	18002	January 1965
Once you come back / Come look at me	18214	June 1965
Mama Jamaica / Adios, Adios	18458	Aug 1965
Today or tomorrow / As long as one can dream	18748	April 1966
	Vogue
Forgive me / Love begins with dreams	14584	December 1966
Everything was a dream / Don't tell him	14613	March 1967
A Crimson Rose / Donna Donna	14652	Sep 1967
	Decca
Hot as the sun / The overture is over	19957	October 1968
I burn all bridges / The door is open	19971	February 1969

chart positions

year	title album	Top placement, total weeks/months, awardChartschart positions (Year, Title, Album , Rankings, Weeks/Months, Awards, Notes)	Remarks
		EN
1961	Don't be sad, dear mom	EN24 (3 months) EN
1962	A rose from Santa Monica	EN3 (5 mt.) EN
	when will the day come	EN19 (3 mt.) EN
	The night is so beautiful	EN40 (1 month) EN
	Surabaya	EN24 (3 months) EN
1963	Three white sails	EN43 (1 mt.) EN
	who looks into your eyes	EN43 (2 months) EN
	Roses have thorns	EN8 (5 mt.) EN
1964	Luck will give us its hands for once	EN29 (2 mt.) EN
	It all comes again	EN26 (1 mt.) EN
1965	Saying goodbye hurts so much	EN16 (1½ months) EN
	Once there you come back	EN34 (½ month) EN

Filmography (selection)

• 1962: Three love letters from Tyrol
• 1962: Dance with me in the morning
• 1962: Between Shanghai and St. Pauli
• 1962: His best friend
• 1963: Sing, but don't play with me
• 1963: Wedding at Lake Neusiedl
• 1967: The Museum of Crime (TV Series) - 9 Gauge

web links

Commons : Carmela Corren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website Carmela Corren ( Memento of February 24, 2020 at Internet Archive )
• Carmela Corren ( Memento dated January 14, 2013 at archive.today web archive ) at Song Contest Fanclub
• German Schlager Festival
• Carmela Corren at the Internet Movie Database
• Carmela Corren at Discogs

itemizations

1. ↑ Austria: Eurovision 1963 Participant Carmela Corren Has Died
2. ↑ Carmela Corren - Hava Nagila (1979, vinyl). Retrieved January 17, 2022 (English). 
3. ↑ Chart sources: DE