Colin Wilkie

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Colin Wilkie 2010 at the Folk Festival Folk in the castle courtyard

Colin Wilkie (born May 9, 1934 in London ) is a British singer-songwriter who has lived in Zabergäu in Germany since the 1960s . Together with his wife Shirley Hart (born December 8, 1932 in East London) he formed the folk duo Colin Wilkie & Shirley Hart .

Life

Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart 2004 at Waldeck Castle

From the age of 18 Colin Wilkie played drums in jazz and dance bands as well as skiffle and pop groups in England ; later he found himself playing the guitar as an autodidact . He opened his own folk club in Bromley in 1960 with his friend John Glen. Guests included Alex Campbell , Redd Sullivan and Martin Winsor. In 1960 he met the English folk singer Shirley Hart at the Sutton Folk Club. Together they made street music in France and played in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Switzerland. After all, they stayed in Germany from 1966, when Colin was asked to compose melodies for Franz Josef Degenhardt for the piece Leben und let Leben for some texts. Producer Peter Palitzsch suggested that Shirley and Colin sing some songs on stage themselves. The play (with Hannelore Hoger ) ran for a year and a half in the Stuttgart State Theater , and so the two settled in Germany. After a short time in Stuttgart , the couple settled in Stockheim and later in Pfaffenhofen . Colin Wilkie is one of the initiators of the Pfaffenhofen Artists' Meeting, which was founded in 1992.

Wilkie wrote his first songs for the pop group The Moonbeams in the late 1950s . From an early age he was politically active, for example in the Easter marches . He was friends with the American songwriter Phil Ochs , whose songs he admires very much. The folk duo Colin Wilkie & Shirley Hart performed at almost all Burg-Waldeck festivals , together with Hein and Oss , Reinhard Mey , Franz Josef Degenhardt, Hanns Dieter Hüsch and many others. Wilkie wrote English texts for Werner Lämmerhirt , Konstantin Wecker and Pe Werner and wrote many songs that were adopted by other singers, for example by Hannes Wader , Le Clou and Liederjan . His most commonly recorded songs by other artists are Icy Acres and You Won't Get Me Down In Your Mine ; his best-known song was One More City (the version translated and sung by Hannes Wader is Manche Stadt ). For the 1996 CD I Wish I'd Written That Song. A Tribute to Colin Wilkie , numerous artists sing his songs, for example Ray Austin , Julian Dawson , Le Clou , Franz Josef Degenhardt, Joana , Liederjan, Reinhard Mey and Bill Ramsey .

From 1974 to 1981 Wilkie presented the half-hour program Colin's Folk Club on Ö3 every Sunday evening , in which he presented folk music.

In 1969 their son Vincent Wilkie was born, who produced the CDs I Wish I'd Written That Song and Empty Chairs , among others . Between 1995 and 2000 he appeared as Lotte Ohm. , meanwhile he works under the name Instant Wilkie as a musician, DJ and web designer.

After vocal cord problems that occurred with Shirley Hart, Wilkie now goes on tour alone (or together with other musicians such as Klaus Weiland , Werner Lämmerhirt and Wizz Jones ).

Works

Colin Wilkie

  • 1968: The Bells of London. Lyrics, notes. (Foreword Franz-Josef Degenhardt ) Song library Rolf Gekeler. Gain.
  • 1980: Autumn Is Knocking At Our Door. (LP): Intercord 160.130 (Colin Wilkie & Friends: Hannes Wader, Erich Schmeckenbecher, Jörg Suckow, Bernie Conrads and others)
  • 1982: Rides of the Fair. 8 songs. (LP) Intercord 160.175
  • 1988: The Long Weight. (LP) Schnoog 1109
  • 1990: Echoes of Old Love Songs. (LP) Shamrock 1009 (A) p
  • 1996: Empty Chairs. (CD) plans 88 800
  • 2011: Bangter Rites! (CD) Green Hill 10311

Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart

  • 1962: Les Landsmen. (LP & EP) Columbia (F)
  • 1962: Sing. (EP) Fable (UK)
  • 1965: Alex Campbell, Colin Wilkie & Shirley Hart Sing Folk. (with John Pearse, Ian McCann, Peter Maynard and others) (LP) Presto 648 (UK)
  • 1965: We Travel the Road. (LP) Polydor 237 704
  • 1966: Songs of Mother Ireland. (LP) Saga / Society SOC 1017 (UK) (with Kate Lucy, John Pearse, Barry Johns)
  • 1966: Folk 66. (LP) Society SOC 1022 (UK) (with John Pearse)
  • 1967: Shanties. (LP) Saga FID 2019 (UK) (as The Twelve Buccaneers starring Colin Wilkie & Shirley Hart)
  • 1969: Wild Goose. (LP) MPS / BASF CRM 697 (with Albert Mangelsdorff & Joki Freund)
  • 1970: Sunflower Seed. (LP) Da Camera Song SM 95029
  • 1972: Morning. (LP) plans 88 107
  • 1973: Sing Out. (EP) Velcro
  • 1973: I Know Where I'm Going. (LP) Da Camera Song SM 95039
  • 1974: Outside the City. (LP) plans 15 F 500

Samplers with other artists

  • 1962: Welcome to the Festival. (LP) Folk Bag (UK)
  • 1964: Folk Scene. (LP) fsp (UK)
  • 1965: International Troubadour. (LP) Delta (NL)
  • 1966: Macabre makes fun. (LP) Xenophon
  • 1968: Burg Waldeck Festival 1967. (LP) Xenophon
  • 1973: Song Festival 73 Ludwigshafen. (LP) plans
  • 1975: Jazz Meets The World. (LP.) MPS
  • 1975: Concert for Pitter. (LP) Edition Venceremos
  • 1976: Folklore International. (LP) plans
  • 1982: Folk Music Festival. (LP) Amiga
  • 1983: Songs for Peace. (LP) Folk Freak
  • 1994: Family of Music - It's All About Love. (CD) Town
  • 1996: I Wish I'd Written That Song - A Tribute to Colin Wilkie. (CD) plans
  • 1997: Acoustic Special. (CD) Shamrock (A)
  • 1997: Folk Festival Kaltenberg - Highlights 1982 - 1997. (CD) Heideck
  • 1999: Best of Felsenkeller. Vol. 1. (CD) Intraton
  • 2000: 20 years of Seelsaitig. (CD) Intraton
  • 2002: Tonartists. (CD) Intraton
  • 2006: Danube Music. (CD) Intraton
  • 2008: The Burg Waldeck Festival 1964-1969. (CD) Bear Family

literature

  • Michael Kleff: Colin Wilkie & Shirley Hart. In: The Burg Waldeck Festival 1964-1969. Chansons Folklore International. Bear Family, Hambergen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89916-394-0
  • Gerd Schinkel: One more city - One more song. Colin Wilkie. In: Folker 5/2002. Moers 2002, ISSN  1435-9634
  • Kaarel Shriver: Wilkie, Colin & Hart, Shirley. In: Folk Lexicon. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 3-499-16275-X
  • Paul Sieben: From Street to Theater. Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart on the European "folk scene". In: song. No. 3/1966. gain
  • Sandy Wolfrum: Colin Wilkie in the mirror of the performers and in conversation. In: Guitar current. Hamburg 2000, ISSN  0934-4241
  • Eric Winter: Two singers who went into Europe. Folk Review, Nantwich 1972

Web links

Commons : Colin Wilkie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ostinato 2/2018 vlk.ac.at (PDF), accessed on January 1, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Wilkie, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH London