Fini Busch

Josefine "Fini" Busch (born February 18, 1928 in Munich ; † November 2, 2001 there ; actually: Josefine Huber-Busch ) was a German hit writer who had written many hits together with hit composer Werner Scharfenberger . Some of them have become evergreens .

Career

Broadcasters

Friedel Hensch and the Cyprys - The blue grotto

Husband Hanns-Gerd Huber (born November 15, 1924 in Krumbach, † July 1, 1999) was a self-employed program designer for dance music at Radio Munich (now Bayerischer Rundfunk ). From 1947 he moderated the show Midnight in Munich together with Werner Götze . Fini joined Radio Munich in December 1945. Jimmy Jungermann was the head of popular music there and brought her to his department in May 1946. He commissioned her to compose a night song for the end of the broadcast. That was the beginning of her writing career. However, this later came into conflict with an instruction from the broadcasting directorship. At Bayrischer Rundfunk, too - since the conflict of interest that became public between WDR and Kurt Feltz - the airplay of compositions by its own employees was limited to a maximum of 5 pieces per week since 1951 , after Ralph Maria Siegel in December 1949 under the harmless headline “How will a Schlager made? ”In the radio and television magazine HÖR ZU discovered the conflict of interest. A composition fulfilling these conditions was Wenn die Geigen leis' Klingingen by Fini Busch with the music composition of her department head dance music Quirin Amper. However, the pseudonyms used by Fini Busch such as Inge Martens, Harry Sixt and Walter Kartis made it difficult for the radio auditors to monitor the airplay. So it came about that Fini participated in the royalty distribution of GEMA in 1951 with 4,000 marks, in 1952 with 9,000 marks. To avoid the difficulties, she quit her job in June 1953. Before she could leave the station, she was given leave of absence by the director on September 23, 1953. During her time at Radio Munich she wrote texts for René Carol ( The Blue Grotto ; Decca F 43 030; 1950), her first composition with the composer Werner Scharfenberger and covered by Friedel Hensch and the Cyprys (recorded on September 27, 1950 and published on October 6, 1950). Oh beautiful home was created for Vico Torriani (again with Scharfenberger; November 7, 1951), Margot Hielscher recorded the title on the same day. It followed again for Carol Komm 'mit to Palermo (B-side of Isabella ; October 17, 1952), Angèle Durand took over Adios (September 1953).

First successes

Fred Rauch - Schützenliesl

Her first major success was the Oktoberfest and beer tent hit Schützenliesl (it crashed three times) with the three striking bangs , which became a hit at the 126th Munich Oktoberfest , which opened on September 22, 1953 . The original is by Fred Rauch (1952; Fini Busch hid himself here as Harry Sixt). The song takes up the story of the waitress Coletta Möritz, who dances with eleven mugs on a beer barrel on an advertising poster for the Münchner Kindl-Bräu (based on an oil painting by Friedrich August von Kaulbach ) and who dances for the first time between July 24 and 31, 1881 7th German Federal Shooting in Munich was to be seen. A beer tent here was called “Zur Schützenliesl”. The depiction, which was revealing for the time, then appeared as part of extensive merchandising on beer mugs, postcards, ashtrays and shooting targets. Coletta died on November 30, 1953, a month earlier the title was the hit of the Oktoberfest. Other well-known interpreters of the song are the Will Glahé Orchestra with the Golgowski Quartet (November 1952), Otto Ebner with the Munich Wind Orchestra (February 1953), Willy Millowitsch (B-side of Up and Down ; 1965), James Last (1971) , Tony Marshall (1973), Freddy Breck (1973) or Jürgen Zeltinger & Gerd Köster (1990). There were two movies with the same title (December 21, 1926 and October 20, 1954). Also registered with BMI as Schuetzenliesl Polka . The title is still often played today, not only at Oktoberfest, but generally as a mood song.

Compositions in the 1950s

Peter Kraus - At seventeen

Illo Schieder recorded How often you kiss me (Polydor # 49 366) on October 4, 1954 , Fini Busch is hiding behind the pseudonym Karl Kiesinger. Fred Bertelmann took over Bleib as Du bist (1952) and Über seven Meere (music: Scharfenberger; 1956), for Paul Kuhn she wrote as a sub-writer Today I'm not going home (German version of Hound Dog ; recorded on January 11, 1957 ), Gerhard Wendland was interested in The Sky Has Never Been So Blue (February 28, 1955), covered Stay As You Are (September 6, 1955) and Say That You Will Never Forget Me (November 29, 1955).

Lolita recorded The White Moon of Maratonga on May 8, 1957 (music: Scharfenberger) (November 1957; rank 2), Peter Kraus took over his first track from Fini Busch with Let me please never alone (B-side by Liebelei ; 1957) . The movie Immer die Radfahrer (Premiere: September 11, 1958) carried the song Mit.17 by Peter Kraus (August 1958; Rank # 2). In 1958, Peter Kraus was awarded three more titles, including Sugar-Baby (December 1958; # 2).

Lolita - sailor (your home is the sea)

She wrote 31 titles for Lolita, including Addio, Amigo (November 25, 1957, published February 1958; # 5). Seven titles were created in 1959, including Seemann (your home is the sea) , recorded on December 15, 1959 with Lolita in the Austrophon Studio in Vienna under the production direction of Gerhard Mendelson . When the song came on the market in February 1960, it reached number 2 on the German charts and is Fini Busch's most successful record with 2 million copies sold. Werner Scharfenberger and Busch were commissioned to quickly write a song for Lolita for the B-side of a single. The A-side was finished, it was called La Luna , and the producer Gerhard Mendelson recommended: “Write something on the back, it doesn't matter”. He wanted to get the record out as quickly as possible, and so Seemann came into being at short notice . Within a week, the Airplay sailor was preferred and made it to second place, while La Luna landed behind in 30th place. Lolita sang the song in the movie Send Your Wife Not To Italy (Premiere September 22, 1960).

Compositions in the 1960s and after

Fini Busch has not yet had a number one hit with her hit lyrics . That only changed in 1960, when at least eight of her titles came onto the market, including the sea shanty A ship will come for Lale Andersen (recorded on September 11, 1960 in Cologne). It reached number 1 for ten weeks and has been sold well over a million times. Here Fini Busch was only a subtext writer to the original Greek music by Manos Hadjidakis . Also Caterina Valente cover came in October 1960 to rank first Peter Kraus placed Va Bene in September 1960 to rank sixth

Ted Herold was built up as a rock'n'roller by Polydor and had previously tried in vain to achieve the success of Peter Kraus. He achieved this impressively with the loneliness ballad Moonlight . It was recorded on April 14, 1960, was number 1 from July 30 to September 2, 1960 and was Ted Herold's most successful single of his career with over 500,000 copies.

1961 was Fini Busch's most productive year with at least eleven titles, including Black Rose, Rosemarie (November 1961; # 5) for Peter Kraus . In 1962 she wrote texts for seven titles, such as Heidi Brühl's Was der Wind Zeiten (Greek original song; November 25, 1962), in 1963 another seven titles came out, including Bernd Spier with Beautiful Girls Must Be Loved (June 1964, # 7). This number of titles remained constant in 1965 (6) and 1966 (7). From 1967 their productivity decreased significantly; that year, Peter Rubin's The Most Beautiful Road (B-side of The Train to Sunny Hill ) was the only title. In 1968 she wrote two contributions for the first German Schlager competition on July 4, 1968, whereby Rex Gildo reached fifth place with Wer das prohibits and Mary Roos with Die Welt von Morgen (music: Ralph Siegel ) did not make it to the finals could qualify. On November 21, 1969, Cilla Black appeared with It Feels so Good (B-side of If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind ), written together with Gus Backus and Werner Scharfenberger. In 1979 she wrote the German text for Milk & Honey's Israeli Eurovision winner Hallelujah .

statistics

Her most successful song was Seemann (your home is the sea) , followed by A Ship Will Come . She received a gold record for both million seller . Fini Busch has written over 1,500 hits since 1949, 400 of them together with Werner Scharfenberger. In total, she was responsible for the lyrics of four top hits. The house poets Kurt Feltz and Fini Busch contributed 88 texts (45%) to the 194 German songs in the Polydor catalog 1961/62. She wrote 48 hits for Connie Francis alone.

Daughter Gabriele Misch ( actress , singer and author ) as one of three children has, in addition to other stage programs, one that is dedicated to the songs and life of her mother, the title "Sugar Baby" .. The text content of the hit lyrics was good mood, emotions or wanderlust. The latter gave birth to places like Napoli or imaginary names like Maratonga. She worked with composers such as Gerhard Winkler , Werner Bochmann , Ernst Fischer , Benny de Weille , Werner Scharfenberger and Max Greger . In 1990 the LP Lieder I liked to write , a compilation in three episodes, was released. Fini Busch bequeathed her music publisher al-fine to her daughter Misch. Fini's husband Hanns died in 1999, she died two years later.

Texts in the top 10

title	Performers	year	space
A ship will arrive	Lale Andersen	1960	1.
Moonlight	Ted Herold	1960	1.
Do not hurt me	Connie Francis	1962	1.
The white moon of Maratonga	Lolita	1957	2.
Home, home	The blue boys	1957	2.
At seventeen	Peter Kraus	1958	2.
Sugar baby	Peter Kraus	1958	2.
When you go	Connie Francis	1962	2.
sailor	Lolita	1960	2.
Hula skirt	Ted Herold	1959	3.
The night is mine	Connie Francis	1963	3.
Va bene	Peter Kraus	1960	6th
Blue melody	Peter Kraus	1961	7th
You have to love beautiful girls	Bernd Spier	1964	7th
Sorry little baby	Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	1965	7th
Manakoora	Lolita	1958	8th.
I want to dream with you	Peter Kraus / Mickey Main	1959	8th.
Across all seven seas	Lolita	1961	9.
You have to stay, Angelino	Connie Francis	1965	10.

documentary

• 1996: About love, longing and homesickness (Director: Juliane Schuhler)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim Ernst Berendt, Midnight in Munich, in: Ein Fenster aus Jazz. Essays, Portraits, Reflexionen , 1978, pp. 174-177.
2. ↑ Der Spiegel 2/54 of January 6, 1954, Three times it crashed over Fini Busch , p. 31 ff.
3. ↑ Der Spiegel 51/1950 of December 25, 1950, In one's own pocket , p. 40
4. ↑ describes the Blue Grotto on Capri
5. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from September 23, 2010, Wiesn: The "Schützenliesl" turns 150
6. ^ Corinna Erhard: Munich in 50 Answers , Munich Publishing House, Munich 2011, p. 46/47: Who was the Schützenliesl? ISBN 978-3-937090-57-3
7. ↑ Schützenliesl website
8. ↑ There is nothing in common with the song of the same name recorded on September 15, 1905 by tenor Fritz Werner (Edison # 15382; Leo Stein / Karl Lindau)
9. ^ Joseph Murrells, Million Selling Records , 1985, 144.
10. ↑ Karin Sommer, The Sailor, the Sugar Baby and the Schützenliesl: What would the German hit be without Fini Busch? in: at times. Geschichtsmagazin für München, No. 2, Musikalisches München, May 1998, pp. 32–33 ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2012 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.  
11. ↑ SWR4 of March 22, 2005, Rainer's reference: Lale Andersen
12. ↑ Der Spiegel 43/1996 of October 21, 1996, television: Monday October 21, 1996 , p. 282
13. ↑ Der Spiegel 40/1963 of October 2, 1963, Wer ist tu , p. 105