Eddie Wilson

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Eddie Wilson (actually Armin Edgar Schaible , born 1936 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German-American country musician who achieved chart successes in Germany in 1961 as a singer with the songs "Dankeschön - bitteschön - wiedersehn" and "Ich bin froh" .

Life

Armin Edgar Schaible got to know country music from the American Forces Network (AFN) radio station . He started playing the guitar and was soon fluent in English. From 1951 he worked in the group "Wagonmasters", whose lead singer he became and which appeared on AFN in the weekly program "Hillibilly Gasthaus". Martin Haerle (1939–1990), who was friends with Schaible, organized country concerts, for example in the Liederhalle Stuttgart . Haerle worked from 1959 in Nashville for the record company Starday Records , where he soon became an important employee of the managing director Don Pierce. In order to stand out from the country singles in simple covers that are popular with the competition , Haerle introduced long play albums in covers in four-color printing with additional information and images at Starday . Haerle also convinced Pierce to set up the mail order Country Music Club of America to distribute the records.

In 1960, Schaible also moved to Nashville and worked under the name Eddie Wilson at Starday as a studio musician. As a singer Eddie Wilson released several singles from 1961, which were produced with a backing band in the studios of Starday. The songs "Ich bin froh" and "Dankeschön - bitteschön - wiedersehn", published by Ariola on the Top Rank label in Germany , reached positions 25 and 17 on the German music charts in 1961, respectively. "Ich bin froh" is a German version written by Haenle to the melody of the song "It's OK", which Georg Jones published in June 1956 on Starday. Pierce refused, however, to publish the "Thank you - please - wiedersehn" in English in the US.

Eddie Wilson formed from 1964 with Vic Willis (1922-1995) and Lee Emerson (1927-1978) the staff of the songwriters of Starday Records. After Haerle briefly rose to Pierce's deputy at Starday, he and Schaible were fired at the same time. Haerle founded the bluegrass label CMH-Records in Los Angeles in 1975 , which is continued by his son David Haerle.

Schaible later worked as a factory worker, performed as a musician at German folk festivals and settled in Houston, Texas. In 1987 he recorded several of his own songs in the private studio of guitarist Jerry Cochran (born 1943), including "Ludwigsburg". Together with accordionist and restaurateur Ronnie Tippelt (born 1958 in Munich), who lives in Walburg in Williamson County (Texas) , Eddie Schaible founded the alpine folk music group Walburg Boys as a guitarist in 1992 , with whom he appeared at festivals, on local TV programs and in Tippelt's restaurant. In 2008 Schaible was involved in founding the Texan band Enzian Buam , which also plays alpine folk music. He performed there until December 2012.

Cover versions

The song "Dankeschön - bitteschön - wiedersehn" has also been interpreted frequently by other musicians . As early as the early 1960s, Ariola published a version with the Swiss singer Willy Schmid (Ariola 35 100 A) alongside Eddie Wilson's version . Schmid is shown in the same GI uniform on the covers of both singles.

Ariola initially named Martin Haerle as the author of the play. In 1962 Eddie Wilson's recording of the song appeared on the English market, but with ukulele player and singer Willy "Uke" Scott as the author. Also on a re-release of Eddie Wilson's recording in 1974, Ariola named Scott as the author and composer.

The Swedish rock 'n' roll singer Lille Gerhard (1963), the Bremerhaven duo "The Happy Wanderers" (1967 on Australian television) and the Scottish country singer Les Brown (1975) have recorded other versions. The American country singer Dave Dudley published a version on Bellaphon in 1984 under the title “I Wish I Could… 'Sprechen Sie Deutsch'” , in which Dudley was named as the author and composer. The band Voluntary Self-Control played the song in 1986 on John Peel's radio program "Festive Fifty".

Discography (incomplete)

  • I'm glad / thank you - please - see you again , February 1961, 7 "single, Ariola Top Rank 75 217
    • 1974, Ariola 13 257 AT
  • She has that certain something / Give your money and gold , April 1961, 7 "single, Ariola 45 424
  • Dankeschoen-Bitteschoen-Wiedersehn / Rheinlaender Waltz , October 1962, 7 "single, Oriole
  • Just One More / The Warm Red Wine , 7 "single, Starday 7013
  • with Dorothy Warren (vocals): Back Street Affair , 7 "single (B-side), Starday 7014
  • There Stands the Glass , 7 "Single (B-Side), Starday 7019
  • Thank you, please, goodbye , 1979, LP, Bear Family BFX 15028 (compilation)
  • Thank you, please, goodbye , 1993, 2 CDs, Bear Family BCD 15615 BH (compilation of 53 recordings)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2015 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. by Jerry Cochran @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jerrycochran.com
  2. ↑ German dinner theater comes to Opera House, The Eagle Lake Headlight , January 6, 1994, p. 5, digitized (1 page pdf)
  3. ↑ Homepage of the Walburg Boys
  4. ↑ Homepage of the Enzian Buam
  5. ↑ Bremerhaven.de: In a "duck" around the world: Manni Müller started his journey at Easter 50 years ago ( Memento from June 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Nathan D. Gibson, Don Pierce: The Starday Story. The House That Country Music Built , Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2011:

  1. ↑ pp. 124-126
  2. ↑ p. 130
  3. ↑ pp. 139-140
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaible, Armin Edgar; Schaible, Eddie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American country singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg