The blanka, yes the blanka

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The blanka, yes the blanka (from the Živnostenská banka ) is the title of a foxtrot hit , the music of which the Czech composer Jara Beneš wrote in 1924 as his opus 19. Fritz Löhner wrote a German text on it under his stage name Beda.

background

The song was published in 1924 by the Viennese Bohème-Verlag Berlin-Vienna. It was also included in anthology IV of the series “Zum 5 Uhr Tee”, which the Viennese Bohème-Verlag Berlin-Wien published jointly with the music publisher Anton J. Benjamin in Leipzig.

Eric Charell used it along with other American hits as an insert in the revue “An Alle!”, Which he performed in the autumn of 1924 as “The big show in the big theater in two acts and twenty pictures” in the big theater in Berlin.

And "To everyone!" called Martin Uhl his "Third Viennese bohemian Potpourri", Opus 223, which he compiled from melodies of the Revue, which had appeared in the Vienna Bohème-Verlag. Here the piece is included as no. 8 on page 8 of the edition.

The title was played on gramophone records by well-known dance orchestras from the Weimar Republic such as Dajos Béla , Bernard Etté , Jenö Fesca and Marek Weber . Tenors such as Max Kuttner and Jacques Rotter sang him , and the cabaret singer Robert Koppel made a recording of it with the Edith Lorand orchestra .

Refrain

The blanka, yes the blanka
Von der Živnostenská Banka
sits with an unapproachable expression by
the third typewriter.

Yes the blanka, yes the blanka!
Lush at the front, slim at the back,
she knows what, she knows what
To everyone, everyone across the board.

Sheet music editions

  • Jara Beneš: Blanka, yes Blanka! Song and Foxtrot. Vienna, Wiener Boheme Verlag (publisher no. WBV 606) © 1924. Fol., 3 p., Full-sheet color title, sign. "Dely": woman at the typewriter, five men behind.
  • For 5 o'clock tea (Five O'Clock Tea) Volume IV. A collection of 19 selected dance, operetta and song hits. Joint publishing house: Anton J. Benjamin, Leipzig-Milano. Wiener Bohème-Verlag (Otto Hein) Berlin-Vienna-New York.
  • Jara Beneš - Blanka, yes Blanka. Singing and piano. BMG UFA music publishers. Order number: UFA14341

Audio documents

a) sung

  • The blanka, yes the blanka from Jara Beneš. Sung by Jacques Rotter with orchestral accompaniment. Odeon 306.808 (Matr. Ve 1145). Vienna 1924
  • Die Blanka, ja die Blanka (Jára Beneš / Fritz Löhner-Beda) Max Kuttner , tenor, with Paul Godwin Ensemble. Record “Grammophon” 20 130 / B 42195 (mx. 1988 ax) - open. Berlin, November 1924
  • The blanka, yes the blanka . Shimmy Blues (Jára Beneš / Fritz Löhner-Beda) from “An Alle!” Robert Koppel , baritone with Edith Lorand Orchestra. Apply Beka B. 5164-I (Matr. 32 489). September 13, 1924

b) instrumental

  • The blanka, yes the blanka . Shimmy Blues (Jara Beneš) artist band Dajos Béla . Odeon AA 50 151 / O-7165 (xxB 8282), apply. August 11, 1924
  • The blanka, yes, the blanka : Foxtrot / Jara Beneš. Marek Weber Orchestra . Parlophone P.1751 (Matr. 2-7528)
  • The blanka yes the blanka : Foxtrot (M: Jara Beneš) Orchestra Bernard Etté . Vox 1751 (Mat. 2445 B)
  • Yes the blanka, yes the blanka : Foxtrot / Jara Beneš. Jenö Fesca . Homocord B.8543 (Matr. M 51 636), in wax A19 9 24
  • Yes the blanka, yes the blanka : Foxtrot / Jara Beneš. Isiphon wind orchestra. Isiphon Concert Record 848 (Matr. 6640)
  • The blanka, yes the blanka . Shimmy Blues (Jara Beneš) Karl Haupt and his orchestra. Gramola / HMV AM 172 (Matr. BT 959-I). Prague October 27, 1924

c) in the potpourri

  • To all! Third Viennese Bohème Potpourri, compiled by Martin Uhl op. 223, parts 1 and 2. Orchestra Edith Lorand . Parlophon P. 1914-I and -II (Matr. 2-7912 and 2-7913). February 7, 1925

literature

  • Bryan Randolph Gilliam: Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic (= Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice. Volume 3). Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-42012-1 .
  • Ludwig Hirschfeld: The Book of Vienna (= What is not in the "Baedeker". Volume 2). R. Piper & Company, 1927, p. 122.
  • Wolfgang Hirschenberger, Herbert Pames: Discography of Austrian Popular Music. Dance, jazz and light music recordings 1900–1958. (PDF; online)
  • Wolfgang Jansen: Splendid revues of the twenties (= sites of the history of Berlin. Volume 25). Edition Hentrich, 1987, ISBN 3-926175-34-6 , p. 144.
  • Wolfgang Kos (Ed.): Struggle for the City: Politics, Art and Everyday Life around 1930 (= special exhibition of the Wien Museum. Volume 361). Czernin, 2010, p. 396.
  • Monika Portenlänger: Flirty girl and sophisticated vamp: the representation of women on cover illustrations and in hit texts from the 1920s and early 30s. Jonas, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89445-380-0 , p. 48.
  • Klaus Taschner: Sermon pulpit against coffee house . Interview with Wolfgang Kos on the occasion of the exhibition “Struggle for City Politics, Art and Everyday Life around 1930” in the Wien Museum. In: The Standard. Vienna, December 3, 2009. (online at derstandard.at )
  • Monika Wagner, Susanne Schwinghammer, Michael Hüttler (eds.): Theater, encounter, integration? (= Writings of the Society for TheaterEthnology. Volume 2). IKO-Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2003, ISBN 3-88939-546-5 , p. 57.
  • Christian Zwarg: ODEON Matrix Numbers - Bo / xxBo 6130-9999. (Berlin). (PDF, online at phonomuseum.at )
  • Christian Zwarg: PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 30173 to 34999: German. (PDF online at phonomuseum.at )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "In the hit text on Die Blanka, ja die Blanka , the professional activity of the" lovely girls "is made responsible for the testosterone-laden restlessness. And, of course, how that ends is well known from film comedies of that time, the blonde Blanka finally marries the boss and lives carefree and well-watered until the end of her life. ”(Wolfgang Kos in an interview with Klaus Taschner, December 3, 2009, 6:59 pm , on line at derstandard.at )
  2. ↑ Fig. Of the sheet music title with illustration by Otto Dely at dreiraaben.de ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , also imagesmusicales.be @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dreiraaben.de
  3. ↑ as No. 7 Blanka, yes Blanka, Lied and Foxtrot, Jara Benes; Fig. Of the ill. Volume title at allegro.pl , accessed on June 6, 2016
  4. ↑ Jansen p. 201 mentions Linger awhile by Vincent Rose, Al Jolsons Toot toot tootsie good bye and Victor Herbert's waltz A Kiss in the Dark .
  5. ↑ Gilliam p. 121; Jansen, Glanzrevuen p. 201
  6. ^ To all, 3rd Viennese Bohème Potpourri, compiled by Martin Uhl op. 223. Gemeinschaftl. Verlag Otto Hein (Wiener Bohème-Verlag) and Anton J. Benjamin (Leipzig-Milano), publisher no. AJB 7992; Title shown. at buchfreund.de
  7. ↑ Hirschenberger-Pames p. 227
  8. ↑ republished. by Chr. Zwarg, Truesound Transfers on CD TT-3055 Max Kuttner 1, as track 2
  9. ↑ Zwarg, PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 30173 to 34999: German, p. 303
  10. ↑ Zwarg, ODEON Matrix Numbers —Bo / xxBo 6130–9999 (Berlin), to be heard on youtube
  11. ↑ Zwarg, PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 2-7500 to 2-8999: German, p. 5
  12. ↑ Hirschenberger-Pames p. 120
  13. ↑ Zwarg, PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 2-7500 to 2-8999: German, p. 65