Dorthe Kollo

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Dorthe Kollo (2014)
Dorthe Kollo (2014)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Young man with red roses
  DE 19th 07/01/1964 (12 weeks)
Red is love (oowee oowee)
  DE 26th 11/01/1964 (4 weeks)
Dip-di-dip
  DE 17th 03/15/1965 (14 weeks)
Blond hair on the paletot
  DE 24 07/15/1965 (8 weeks)
Today I lost my heart
  DE 34 January 15, 1966 (2 weeks)
Are you the Count of Luxembourg?
  DE 5 03/01/1968 (16 weeks)
  AT 7th 04/15/1968 (12 weeks)
If only you had stayed in Düsseldorf
  DE 10 08/01/1968 (12 weeks)
Every Scot
  DE 24 December 01, 1968 (12 weeks)
  AT 19th December 15, 1968 (4 weeks)
His Highness the Crown Prince
  DE 27 05/15/1969 (2 weeks)

Dorthe Kollo (born Larsen ; born July 17, 1947 in Copenhagen ), stage name Dorthe , is a Danish pop singer .

Life

Dorthe Larsen grew up in Copenhagen. She received her musical training from her father, who was the conductor of the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra . In addition, she learned acting, dance and pantomime . At the age of eight she recorded her first record Min Piphans in her native Denmark . At the age of twelve she got her first gold record for the title Åh, det er søndag (cover version of Oh Lonesome Me by Don Gibson).

In the early 1960s she came to Germany and in 1963 applied with the title A Lot of Admirers at the German Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden , but did not reach the final. In the following year, however, she had her first success with the title Young Man with Red Roses , which reached a remarkable 5th place at the 1964 Schlager Festival . This made her known in German-speaking countries. In 1965 she achieved 4th place with blond hair on the paletot and a swallow does not make a summer . She released her records under the name Dorthe .

In 1968 Dorthe had her first big hit with Are you the Count of Luxembourg? She had another success in the same year with Would you stay in Düsseldorf , with which she reached 2nd place in the German Schlager Competition in 1968 and won a gold record . Today, both titles are among the evergreens of German pop hits and, like the title Eine Schotte , which also dates from 1968, are in demand again and again in wish concerts.

With the hit His Highness, the Crown Prince , Dorthe had another hit in 1969. Other successful titles were the singles A pink apple tree , Mr. Schopenhauer was a very clever one , Chilli-Pfeffer , You have to go towards happiness or you bring sun into my heart . At the beginning of the 1970s things got a little quieter around Dorthe Kollo, but in the following years she kept recording tracks on records. She was also a guest in numerous television programs in which she sang her old hits, but also new titles. At the Kiel radio station NDR 1 Welle Nord she hosted her own radio program for seven years and got her own popular TV program Bi uns to Huus , which she presented once a month for four years. In 1980 she recorded a German version of Papa Pinguin , the Luxembourg contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest .

In the early 1990s she tried her hand at the popular sector. With Heimat is not just a word , she achieved 6th place in the Lower Saxony competition Lieder as beautiful as the north in 1991 . In 1993 songs as beautiful as the north she reached fourth place with There is a Nordic Sage .

In 2012 she published in her native Denmark, the swing album Lykken Ligger Lige Her (German: Happiness is here ).

Dorthe Kollo is one of the few pop singers who is still present on the radio today, although she has not had a hit parade for years.

Private

From 1967 to 1977 she was married to the opera singer René Kollo , with whom she has a daughter, Nathalie Kollo (* 1967). In 1983 she married the prop master Bernd Klinkert, and another daughter was born in the same year. The marriage ended in divorce in 1988. From 1996 to 2000 she was married to the Danish film producer Just Betzer. She lives in Bremen , where she married the shipowner Heiner Dettmer in 2007.

Prices

Discography (Germany)

Vinyl singles

From page Catalog no. published
Metronomes
A lot of admirers / your nose I can see it 351 6/1963
Moonlight Caballero / The song has faded away 371 10/1963
Young man with red roses / The boy has come 406 6/1964
Young love / red is love 420 8/1964
The first love / moonlight caballero 454 1/1965
Philips
Leave the old stories / Dip-Di-Dip 345812 2/1965
Blond hair on the paletot / A swallow doesn't make a summer 345834 5/1965
Today I lost my heart / you can't forget that 345867 12/1965
Happiness and glass / I don't fall for that 345895 4/1966
His real face / Don't hang everything on the bell 346026 11/1966
Ask any girl / you 346055 6/1967
Are you the Count of Luxembourg? / What's the matter with the torero? 346093 1/1968
If only you had stayed in Düsseldorf / I'm turning a hundred years old 384537 6/1968
Every Scot / Many words, fine words 384558 10/1968
His Highness the Crown Prince / Jamaica 1111 384587 2/1969
Mr Schopenhauer / Jean-Roberto and Denise were very clever 388373 7/1969
A pink apple tree / You don't need a reason to love 388431 12/1969
Chili Pepper / You have to go towards happiness 6003068 11/1970
Mini Hot Pants / Our reunion is called love 6003115 3/1971
Today or never / Everything is okay 6003167 8/1971
You bring sun into my heart / better today than tomorrow 6003229 1972
Metronomes
He was a student in Heidelberg / Like a leaf in the book of time 22576 1974
If you love me then come to me / Ninety-nine mistakes 25605 1974
But then you came of all people / How the die rolls 25629 1975
Cumbaya Cumbayon / I understand you 25686 1975
Tobago Helloh / I'm waiting for a word 25743 1976
Telefunken
My God that takes / No, I'm not talking about freedom 612050 3/1977
Songs in the wind / With the eyes of love 612208 1977
And then it was love / sun in the heart 612277 1978
Even a tree falls over / A clown with red ears 612405 1978
Jupiter
Papa penguin / whenever children dream 102368 10/1980
Polydor
At night / together we are stronger 2042432 10/1982
Zett
Spanish Night / Spanish Night (Instrumental) 34463265 1990
Eastwest
Home is not just a word / The moon over the dike 9031-74527-7 1991

Albums

  • If only you had stayed in Düsseldorf, Philips 844332 (vinyl), 1968
  • Hopelessly Romantic, Bogner 8273 (CD), 1998
  • Are you the Count of Luxembourg ?, Koch Universal (CD), 2012
  • The best of Dorthe, Electrola (CD), 2017

Singles

  • You're still my captain, Palomama Records (Digital), 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart source: Germany + Austria
  2. ↑ Dorthe Kollo again under the hood at www.morgenpost.de, accessed on November 1, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Kollo, Dorthe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorthe; Larsen, Dorthe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark