A ship will arrive

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A ship will arrive
Lale Andersen
publication September 1960
Genre (s) Bat
Author (s) Manos Hadjidakis
text Fini Busch
Label Electrola

A ship will come is the German version of the hit Ta pedia tou Pirea by Manos Hadjidakis from 1960, with German text by Fini Busch . The version became known through the inclusion of Lale Andersen .

History of origin

The Greek film Filmοτέ την Κυριακή ("Pote tin Kyriaki"; German film title on Sundays ... never! ) Was shown at the 13th Film Festival taking place in Cannes between May 4th and 20th, 1960 . The screenplay, production and direction were in the hands of Jules Dassin , whose future wife Melina Mercouri (married in 1966) played the leading role in the film. In one scene she puts on a record and, lying on the bed, sings the song Τα Παιδιά του Πειραιά (“ Ta Paidia Tou Piraia ”; The Children of Piraeus ) in a smoky voice . The piece was penned by Manos Hadjidakis , who also wrote the score for the scene. The premiere took place in Paris on May 25, 1960, and the film was released in Germany on September 9, 1960.

Admission and Success

Lale Andersen - A ship is coming

Fini Busch was commissioned as a sub-copywriter to write a German text as quickly as possible. As in the film, it was about the expectant longing of a prostitute waiting in the port of Piraeus for ships with customers, in the longing hope that at some point there would be a man among them who suits her and who takes care of her and she to his ( Wife) makes. Already on September 11, 1960, the now 55-year-old singer Lale Andersen was standing in front of the microphone with her alto voice in the Cologne Electrola recording studio and picked up the appropriate sea shanty A ship will come / Sometimes I dream of the cornfield (Electrola # 21 615) with the Friedel Berlipp Orchestra and the Bernd Hansen Choir. The focus of their version is a spoken text with great immediacy. The recording day was therefore 2 days after the German cinema premiere.

Published in August 1960, the title reached number one on the German charts on October 1, 1960 for three months and was sold over 250,000 times within the first six weeks; 750,000 copies were sold at the end of January 1961, and the record sold well over a million copies.

Cover versions and awards

Cover versions of Caterina Valente , Dalida and Lys Assia appeared in the same year . After it was released in October 1960, Valentes' cover version also made it to number one on the charts and received a gold record from the music label for over 500,000 copies sold. Mercouri was able to reach eighth place with the yearning song. It was also recorded in September 1960 with the Erwin Halletz Orchestra . Lale Andersen said of her success: “A record that I stand by and that I'm happy about.” Other cover versions are by Manuela , Nana Mouskouri , Daliah Lavi and Waldemar Matuška (under the Czech title Děti z Pirea ) and Lola Novaković ( Deca Pireja , Serbian) Andrea Berg took up the evergreen again on her album Machtlos (May 2003).

For her interpretation of the hit A ship will come and as the most popular German pop singer of 1960, Lale Andersen was presented with the Silver Lion from Radio Luxembourg on March 3, 1961 on the luxury steamer United States .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Ingo Grabowski / Martin Lücke, The 100 hits of the century, 2008, p. 180 f.
  2. Lale Andersen - A ship will come / Sometimes I dream of the cornfield - Electrola - Germany - E 21 615. 45cat.com, accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  3. A ship will come from Lale Andersen. chartsurfer.de, accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  4. German News Notes , Billboard magazine dated 30 January 1961: 54th
  5. ^ Rainer Hartmann: Rainer's reference: Lale Anderson . ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) swr.de, March 22, 2005, accessed on December 17, 2019.
  6. ^ Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 446 .
  7. Litta Magnus-Andersen, Lale Andersen - The Lili Marleen: The Life of an Artist , 1991, p. 214.