A beautiful white chrysanthemum

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A beautiful white chrysanthemum is a slow fox hit, the melody of which was composed by piano humorist Willy Rosen and the text of which was written by cabaret artist Kurt Robitschek . The song was published in 1927 by the Viennese Boheme-Verlag Berlin-Vienna with the name Lied und Yale . The Yale Blues was a short-lived phenomenon in the field of fashion dances around 1927/28. The song was also included in the anthology XI of the series "Zum 5-Uhr Tee", which was published jointly by the music publishers Wiener Bohème (Otto Hein) and Anton J. Benjamin.

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Robitschek's text, which gives preference to the expressiveness of the individual flower over a whole bouquet, dares to make a suggestive comparison between their durability and the loyalty of the loved one to whom they are to be given.

The refrain is:

A beautiful white chrysanthemum
Bring your loved one into the house yourself!
A beautiful white chrysanthemum
says a lot more often than a whole bouquet.
There is also the pleasant thing:
this flower always looks fresh and new.
The chrysanthemum lasts for
a week, the loved one stays true for a week!

Performers

Apart from the composer Rosen, who accompanied himself on the piano, the operetta and cabaret tenor Max Hansen , the chansonnier Paul O'Montis and the pop singer Luigi Bernauer recorded the title on gramophone records. Orchestras such as Dajos Béla , Fred Bird , Otto Dobrindt and Marek Weber played it as a dance title . In Austria the Holzinger Jazz Orchestra recorded the title with refrain singing by Otto Neuman, and the Dolfi Dauber Jazz Orchestra with Georg Kober as the refrain singer . For owners of mechanical musical instruments, the composition was also available as a piano roll .

Sheet music editions

  • Willy Rosen: A beautiful, white chrysanthemum. Song and Yale. Text by Kurt Robitschek. Piano arr. by Walter Borchert. Wiener Bohème-Verlag Berlin-Vienna © 1927. 4 ll.
  • For 5 o'clock tea ("Five o'clock Tea"), a collection of 19 selected dance and song hits. Volume XI. 47 pages. 4 °. Brooch Verl. Wiener Bohème (Otto Hein) and Anton J. Benjamin, 1928, here no.17
  • Willy Rosen: A beautiful, white chrysanthemum. Singing and piano. Publisher: BMG UFA Musikverlage Publisher no .: UFA15765

literature

  • Klaus Budzinski: "Robitschek, Kurt" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 21 (2003) , pp. 681–682 ( online version )
  • Wolfgang Hirschenberger, Herbert Pames: Discography of Austrian Popular Music. Dance, jazz and light music recordings. 1900 - 1958. (PDF)
  • Alan Kelly: Catalog of the vocal recordings of Deutsche Grammophon Berlin-Hanover from 1898-1925 (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.), photomechan. Reprinted by Hansfried Sieben, Düsseldorf undated [around 1970]
  • Volker Kühn: "Rosen, Willy" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 22 (2005) , pp. 54–55, ( online version )
  • Volker Kühn: "Rosen, Willy" at LexM Hamburg (2007, updated on September 1, 2014)
  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945 . Göttingen, self-published, 1991. large-octave hardcover - unpag.
  • Gerd Stein: Adolf Stein alias Rumpelstiltskin: 'Hugenbergs Landsknecht' - one of the most powerful German journalists of the 20th century . LIT Verlag Münster, 2014. ISBN 9783643126467 .
  • Christian Zwarg: PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 30173 to 34999: German. PDF

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Sheet music title of the composition by Vivian Ellis on pinimg.com and explanation on Grammophon-platten.de  : “The Yale, Yale Blues or Yale Trot was a sliding dance that was quite popular around 1927, also in Germany. "Invented" in England by Vivian Ellis, the dance was a hit in 1927, both in Europe and the USA. After the hustle and bustle of Charleston , this dance, reminiscent of slow fox and blues , left time to breathe.
  2. ^ Cover page with illustration by Willy Herzig . at s-antikvariat.cz (updated 15.06.16)
  3. ↑ cf. Association of VolksLiedWerke Austria and South Tyrol at dabis.org