Cindy Ellis

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Cindy Ellis (born July 14, 1926 in London ; real life Evelyn Asal ) is a former pop singer .

Life

Evelyn Mayer-Fredericks, her maiden name, was born in London as the daughter of an Englishman and a German . After the death of her father, she came to Frankfurt am Main with her mother at the age of two . As a six year old she took violin and piano lessons . After completing school, she studied at the Frankfurt University of Music , where she concentrated on the harp until she was 18 . During the Second World War , the minor went on a three-month tour abroad, including to Besançon , Paris , Biarritz and San Sebastián, in a Haydn quartet made up of fellow students . Later Evelyn Mayer Fredericks received as part of a gifted scholarship vocal training as contralto .

After the war, the singer appeared for four weeks in the Revue Broadway in Frankfurt - We invite under the direction of Heinz Gietz in the former Olympic cinema. In 1948 Evelyn Mayer-Fredericks graduated from the opera class. During the same period he made contact with the burgeoning jazz scene. In 1950 the artist married a hobby pianist, her real name was now Evelyn Asal. The singer turned down an offer from the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden in favor of her regular appearances as a jazz and pop singer. In addition, advertising recordings were made for film, radio and so-called sound foils . An advertising shot of the Servas shoes brand, which was only published in 2003, was recorded in collaboration with jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff .

Evelyn Asal recorded a demo tape for the radio show Give the youngsters a chance , hosted by Hans Hellhoff , of the Hessian Broadcasting Corporation , of which the broadcaster sent a copy to the German branch of Metronome Records in Hamburg . Almost at the same time as her appearance on the radio show, the recording came into the hands of producer and orchestra director Bert Kaempfert , who invited Asal to make test recordings at the Polydor record company in Hamburg. In 1959 and 1960 four singles and two EPs by Cindy Ellis were released, as Asal's stage name was now. In addition to quality hits , including by the composers and copywriters Peter Moesser , Werner Bochmann , Heino Gaze , Michael Jary , Bruno Balz and Fred Jay , Ellis sang the first German-language cover version of the US hit Fever with the title Fieber (German text: Peter Moesser).

Bert Kaempfert and Polydor leader Kurt Richter helped the newcomer to appearances on television programs such as the current show booth and music from Studio B . The record company published several advertisements and press releases, the American record label Laurie Records released Ellis' second single in the USA. Appearances in the Netherlands , Belgium and Austria followed . Nevertheless, the singer could not land success in the charts. After the mother of a three-year-old daughter refused a three-month broadcast tour through the USA, she was abruptly dropped at Polydor. One last single remained unreleased in the archive.

Cindy Ellis made her last music recordings for the Sikorski music publishers . Accompanied by the Willy Berking orchestra , she sang the titles Das Glück went auf die Reise (music: Willy Berking / text: Ernst Bader ) and dream music (music and text: Peter Kreuder ). In order to be able to devote himself to her family from now on, Ellis then withdrew completely into private life. Her daughter Stefanie, born in 1962, became a concert pianist and music teacher.

Discography

Singles

Label of the single Fever , 1959
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Do you still think of me
  DE 64 10/01/1959 (8 weeks)
  • Fever ( Fever ) / The goal of my desires (1959 Polydor NH 23919)
  • Not once / Do you think of me again (1959; Polydor NH 24 033; Laurie Records 3043)
  • The small town wants to go to sleep / Can luck then go away like this (1960; Polydor NH 24 197)
  • Where are you from? / Nobody understands me like you (1960; Polydor NH 24 257)
  • Happiness never comes too late / This song belongs only to you (1960; Polydor NH 24 393), unpublished

EPs

  • Do you still think of me / The aim of my desires / Not once / Fever (1959; Polydor EPH 20 497)
  • Turn around again / Can happiness go away like this / We pass the great happiness so easily / The small town wants to go to sleep (1960; Polydor EPH 21 071)

Other titles

  • I Like Servas Shoes
  • Rollectric Song ( Nel blu dipinto di blu )
  • Rollamatic song
  • Do you think of me (do you think of me)
  • The luck goes on the journey
  • Dream music

CDs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in: Memory. Magazine for friends of German oldies . Issue 29.
  2. ↑ Bernd Matheja: Text accompanying the CD Fever . Bear Family Records, 2003.
  3. ^ Marc Boettcher: Strangers in the Night. The Bert Kaempfert story . European publishing company. Sabine Groenewold Verlage, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-50523-7 , p. 69-70 .
  4. ↑ Chart sources: Germany
personal data
SURNAME Ellis, Cindy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer-Fredericks, Evelyn (maiden name); Asal, Evelyn (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH London