Charlie-Charleston

Charlie-Charleston is the title of a piece of music that the pianist, pop singer and music publisher Austin Egen wrote. It was used in the German silent film " The Queen of the World Bath ", which Victor Janson directed in 1926 for National-Film (Berlin). It premiered on December 10, 1926. The illustration music for the film also comes from Egen.

Egens compositions were published by CMRoehr music publishing in Berlin:

Egen, Austin: The Queen of the World Bath […] f. Piano, Roehr No. 921, Berlin 1926.
Egen, Austin: Charlie Charleston […] f. Piano, Roehr No. 921, Berlin 1926.

The "Charlie-Charleston" was previously used in the revue "The Train to the West", which Willi Kollo brought out in August 1926 in Berlin in the Theater des Westens , where it was from 7.8. until November 14th d. J. ran.

Bernard Etté's Jazz Symphony Orchestra played the Charleston instrumental in early 1927 for the VOX label ; there was an edition on 30 cm and 25 cm records. The recordings were already made electrically with a microphone.

A more recent “Charlie Charleston” that has nothing to do with silent films was written by Gerhard Winkler and Heino Gaze after the Second World War. Kurt Widmann recorded it with his orchestra in December 1950 with singing by the Sunshine Quartet under the direction of Erich Werner.

Sound document

Charlie-Charleston (Austin Egen) from the national film "The Queen of the World Bath": Jazz Symphony Orchestra Bernard Etté, Vox 08359 (mx. 1157-AA, Jan. 1927) (30 cm); VOX 8360 (mx. 1156-BB, Jan. 1927), 8406 E (mx. 1156-BB, March 1927) (25 cm)

Illustrations

Vox label 8406 E (mx. 1156-BB, March 1927) (25 cm), Rodaroda collection.
The composer Austin Egen in the pocket album "Künstler am Rundfunk" from 1932, p. 89.
Bernard Etté with his orchestra in the Vox recording room in Berlin.

literature

Aitam Bar-Sagi: The Film Music Museum - Original Silent Films' Music on 78RPM Records . Copyright 2013 on line

Herbert Birett: Silent film music. A collection of materials . Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.

Verlag Bosworth & Co .: Austin Guy Monroe Egen (8.3.1897 Milwaukee - 18.8.1941 Frohnleiten). Biography in revision, at (Bosworth Vienna)

Mario König, Oliver König (Hrsg.): Autobiographical writings: Life in contradiction - attempt of an intellectual autobiography. As an aside - memories. Texts from the estate (= René König Schriften. Last edition. Volume 18). Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-80859-2 .

Franz-Peter Kothes: The theatrical revue in Berlin and Vienna 1900–1938. Heinrichshofen Publishing House, 1977.

Rainer Lotz: “Please! The new Vox records ”- a brief history of the Vox record and speaking machines A.-G., Berlin-Tiergarten. (on-line)

Wolfgang Stanicek: Austin Egen. Schlager composer, singer and music publisher . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, 2010. (grammophon-platten.de) ; see. also homepage

Edward Stilgebauer: The Queen of the World Bath - a novel from Baden-Baden's great days. Gebr. Enoch, Hamburg 1921, DNB 577477382 .

Magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk" (Ed.): "Künstler am Rundfunk" - A pocket album of the magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk". Dedicated to our readers. Rothgießer & Diesing publishing house, Berlin 1932.

Individual evidence

↑ cf. Birett S. 128. The film scholar Aitam Bar-Sagi noted in 2013 that, although Egen is given as the composer of the film music, it is uncertain whether this composition was created especially for the film or whether it was not previously available as a separate piece of music, the Egen just edited for the film. See Stanicek 2010.
↑ Curt Max Roehr, b. 1869 in Danzig, † 1944 in Berlin, was a publisher, writer and journalist, cf. uni-jena.de , GND 1020155922, cf. RE Lotz, ACME records : “CM [Curt Max] Roehr at Berlin founded a music publishing business in 1888, cultivating American dance music including Ragtime and Cake Walk. After WWI he renewed his US contacts. "
↑ cf. Stanicek (2010), chap. 6. Austin Egen in the film, 6.1. Silent film: "This instrumental piece was already published by Roehr in July of that year under the title Charlie Charleston, a Charleston 'from the great revue:" The Train to the West "' under the same edition number."
↑ cf. Kothes p. 127, König p. 61.
↑ a text or a sung version have not yet become known, although the use in a revue suggested such.
↑ also advertised on the labels as "Electro-Vox", cf. Lotz, VOX company history
↑ cf. DNB Musikarchiv catalog: Record Odeon O-28 024 (Matr. Be 14 184-1)
↑ cf. Aitam Bar-Sagi, The Film Music Museum, and Rainer Lotz, Vox online discography , can be heard on youtube.com

[1] . Birett S. 128. The film scholar Aitam Bar-Sagi noted in 2013 that, although Egen is given as the composer of the film music, it is uncertain whether this composition was created especially for the film or whether it was not previously available as a separate piece of music, the Egen just edited for the film. See Stanicek 2010.

[2] Curt Max Roehr, b. 1869 in Danzig, † 1944 in Berlin, was a publisher, writer and journalist, cf. uni-jena.de , GND 1020155922, cf. RE Lotz, ACME records : “CM [Curt Max] Roehr at Berlin founded a music publishing business in 1888, cultivating American dance music including Ragtime and Cake Walk. After WWI he renewed his US contacts. "

[3] . Stanicek (2010), chap. 6. Austin Egen in the film, 6.1. Silent film: "This instrumental piece was already published by Roehr in July of that year under the title Charlie Charleston, a Charleston 'from the great revue:" The Train to the West "' under the same edition number."

[4] . Kothes p. 127, König p. 61.

[5] text or a sung version have not yet become known, although the use in a revue suggested such.

[6] so advertised on the labels as "Electro-Vox", cf. Lotz, VOX company history

[7] . DNB Musikarchiv catalog: Record Odeon O-28 024 (Matr. Be 14 184-1)

[8] . Aitam Bar-Sagi, The Film Music Museum, and Rainer Lotz, Vox online discography , can be heard on youtube.com