The Melodias

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The Melodias was a German dance band from the first post-war years .

history

The dance band worked in the immediate post-war period of World War II and was jointly directed by the pianist Hans Frieboes and the violinist Kurt Mehlig. Other members of the ensemble were Günter Goll ( clarinet and tenor saxophone ), Helmuth Schmidt (tenor saxophone and accordion ), Walter Rathke ( alto saxophone ), Paul Cornand ( guitar ), Horst Friese ( bass ) and Helmut Possner ( drums ). As “The Melodias - Dance Orchestra. Direction: Mehlig-Frieboes “the formation made recordings of German and international hits from 1947 for Deutsche Grammophon Hannover on their Polydor label. In 1948 they accompanied the singer Mimi Thoma with a small orchestra and in 1950 the zither virtuoso Alfred Wirth . A “dance orchestra 'Die Melodias', Hanover” played in April 1956 for the dance tournament for the German Television Prize.

Sound documents (selection)

15 titles are listed in the catalog of the music archive of the German National Library .

  • 47 972 A (0177 ¾ KK) Amor, Amor. Beguine (Gabriel Ruiz) / B (0179 ½ KK) If you ever go to Ireland. English Valse (Geo Rassman), 1947
  • 47 973 A (0178 ½ KK) La Cumparsita . Tango (M. Rodriguez) / B (0180 ½ KK) Destiny. Waltz (S. Baynes), 1947
  • 47 974 A (0176 ½ KK) I'm gettin 'sentimental over you, Slowfox ( Ned Washington ) / B (0183 ½ KK) Fan it. Fox ( Frankie Jaxon ), 1947
  • Siemens-Polydor 47 975 A (R 181 ½ KK) A little on the lonely side, Fox (Frank Weldon) / 47 975 B (A 182 ½ KK) Tico-Tico No Fubá . Carioca ( Zequinra Abreu ), 1947
  • 48 110 A (0659 KK) I'm tired: Chanson (Friedrich Schröder - Fritz Beckmann) Mimi Thoma, on the piano: Hans Frieboes. / B (0661 KK) It could be. Tango song (G. Jussenhoven - Hans Jonen), 1948
  • Philips P 41002 H (662 KK) Secht's Leut'ln, that's how it was in Vienna in thirty (Domanig - Rall [!] - Allmeder) / (665 KK) Out in Sievering the lilacs are already blooming (Joh. Strauss - H. Adler) Mimi Thoma with a small accompanying ensemble, conductor: Hans Frieboes, 1948
  • 48 119 A (0663 KK) I want to be your comrade (Robert Stolz - Walter Verch) 07/26/48 / B (0697 KK) Three little words of love. Lied and Tango (Alois Reich - Kaderka) Mimi Thoma, voc with kl. Mehlig-Frieboes Orchestra, 1948
  • 48 152 A (0664 KK) It was never love, Russian tango (Markus - Rotter) Mimi Thoma, voc. with small Orchester Mehlig-Frieboes 26.07.48 / B (0799 KK) A chanson from the turn of the century, Mimi Thoma, voc. with Hans Frieboes, piano, 1948
  • 48 172 A (1139 KK) Very lovely. Walzer (Waldteufel) / B (1140 KK) autumn wise. Waltz (Waldteufel), 1948
  • 48 173 A (1141 KK) The Flower Seller. Slow waltz (Parker - Turner) / B (683 KK) You were like music: slow waltz (Reschke - Schulz), 1949
  • 48 174 A (1143 KK) Music, Maestro, please, slower Foxtrot (H. Magidson) / B (1142 KK) Seven at one stroke: Foxtrot (E. Lehn), 1949
  • 48 286 A (1641-2 KK) zither ballad (Harry Lime Thema) from the film The Third Man / B (1640-2 KK) Stammcafé: Walzer (Café Mozart-waltz) from the film The third man , Alfred Wirth, zither, 1950

literature

  • Rainer E. Lotz: Discography of German Dance Music, Vol. 5 (= Deutsche National-Discographie, Series 2), Bonn 1996, pp. 1309-1312.
  • Jan Grundmann: Jazz from the rubble . Discography of the self-recordings of Deutsche Grammophon 1945/48 with 15 documentary photos (= Jazzfreund-Publication No. 17), Hamburg / Menden 1982.
  • Frank Wittendorfer: Discography Grammophon / Polydor 47700 - 48500 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. fenn-music.de , here also re-release, order number: U 504.
  2. ↑ cf. Fig. At grammophon-platten.de
  3. ↑ TV appearance: Thursday, April 19, 1956, NWRV 8.30pm-10.30pm dance tournament for the German Television Prize. The dance orchestra 'Die Melodias', Hanover plays. TV director: Ruprecht Essberger . Source: 'Listen!' No. 16/1956 , AZ of April 19, 1956 at retro-media-tv.de
  4. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ listen on YouTube
  6. ↑ labels shown. at picclick.de (accessed on September 13, 2019)
  7. ↑ listen on YouTube
  8. ↑ label shown. on ebay.it (accessed September 14, 2019)
  9. ↑ listen on YouTube
  10. ↑ on this recording cf. user 'snookerbee' at schellacksender (Sa May 20 2017); Alfred Wirth was one of the last masters of Silesian building music and played the zither in the famous Hampelbaude (czech. Hamplová bouda ), a large refuge in the Bohemian-Silesian Giant Mountains . See article in the Westfalenpost from June 26, 2016 and Vinyl 7 ", 45 RPM, Mono" Alfred Wirth - Schlesische Bauden-Klänge ", Gräfe and Unzer Verlag Munich, No. 006 440 at discogs.com
  11. ↑ published at grammophon-platten.de (October 2014).