Aviator, brave aviator

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Aviator, brave aviator is the refrain of the “aviator song” that the American-Bohemian film composer John Stepan Zamecnik wrote in 1927 for William A. Wellman's large-scale silent aviator epic “ Wings ”, a Paramount production that took place during the First World War . The through-composed illustration music for the film also came from him. A German text on the English original Fly, wings…! wrote Kurt Schwabach . The song was published in Germany in 1928 by Sam-Fox-Musikverlag Berlin.

Movie

The film was distributed by Parufamet to German cinemas in early 1929 . Just in time for the premiere, sheet music and gramophone records with the “Fliegerlied” from it appeared on the market. Several well-known bands from the 1920s recorded it.

JS Zamecnik's aviator song “Flieger, brave Flieger” from 1927 should not be confused with the aviator song “Flieger, greet 'mir die Sonne” from the sound film “FP1 does not answer” from 1932, written by Allan Gray and Walter Reisch . The “brave aviator” in it was Hans Albers , who also performed the song.

Refrain

Aviator, brave aviator, I am with you
even in the distance
.
Brave aviator,
conqueror of heaven,
do you see the stars, give
them my regards!

In all storms
you will be sheltered.
My hot pleading for your happiness,
aviator, brave aviator, will
you come back to me then ?

Music by JS Zamecnik, words by Kurt Schwabach

Sheet music editions

Fliegerlied (JS Zamecnik) from the Paramount film "Wings". Sam Fox-Musikverlag Berlin 1928/29

Audio documents

  • Odeon O-5824 b (Be 7898) "Wings" (aviator, brave aviator) Aviator song from the Paramount film of the same name (JSZamecnik). Dajos Béla dance orchestra , refrain singing: Robert Koppel , aufgen. Early 1929
  • Orchestrola 2121 (mx. 1012) “Wings”: Fliegerlied, Foxtrot (music by JS Zamecnik, text by Kurt Schwabach). “Vocalion” - band with refrain vocals.
  • Grammophon 21 952 (Matr. 1830 BK-III) Wings - Fliegerlied (JSZamecnik) Ben Berlin and his orchestra, aufgen. Berlin 1928
  • Electrola EG 1125 (BL 4820-1) "Wings": Fliegerlied (JSZamecnik) from the Paramount film by Parufamet. Marek Weber and his orchestra, rec. Berlin, 4-12-28
  • HMV B.2750 / 7-996 (Matr. Bb 12 955-1) “Wings” (Zamecnik) De Groot and the Piccadilly Orchestra, rec. London, 3-5-28
  • Parlophone B. 12 050 (mx. 37 124) Flieg, brave flier (Wings) / JS Zamecnik. Barnabás von Géczy with his orchestra from the "Esplanade" Berlin. Berlin, February 20, 1929
  • Homocord 4-3090 (TC 568, A April 29, 1929) Fliegerlied (JSZamecnik) from the film "Wings". Lud Gluskin Orchestra .
  • Tri-Ergon TE 5438-B (Matr. 02102) Wings [Fliegerlied] Foxtrot (M: JS Zamecnik) Dance Orchestra Mario Elki [d. i. Egon Kaiser ] (NE 01/1929) (K 1929)

literature

  • Aitam Bar-Sagi: Silent Films' Songs on 78RPM Records. at The Film Music Museum . 2013.
  • Frank Bell, Alexandra Jacobson, Rosa Schumacher: pioneers, inventors, illusions: cinema in Bielefeld. Verlag Westfalen, 1995, ISBN 3-88918-084-1 , p. 91f.
  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music . Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
  • Fernando Esposito: Mythical Modernism: Aviation, Fascism and the Longing for Order in Germany and Italy. Walter de Gruyter, 2011.
  • Michael Paris: From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism, and Popular Cinema. Manchester University Press, 1995, pp. 35-40, 55, 57, 71.
  • William A. Wellman: The Man and His Wings: William A. Wellman and the Making of the First Best Picture. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, ISBN 0-275-98541-5 .
  • Robert Wohl: A Passion for Wings. Aviation and the Western Imagination 1908-1918. New Haven CT et al. 1994.
  • Robert Wohl: The Spectacle Of Flight. Aviation and the Western Imagination 1920-1950 . New Haven CT et al. 2005.
  • Christian Zwarg: PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 36000 to 38999: German. online discography at phonomuseum.at (PDF file)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cleveland, Ohio, May 14, 1872 - † Los Angeles, California, June 13, 1953, pupil of Antonín Dvořák
  2. ↑ Volker Kühn: “Schwabach, Kurt” in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 23 (2007), pp. 775–776 [online version]; URL , Axel Schmidt (2013, updated on April 16, 2013): Kurt Schwabach at LexM Hamburg  ; 2 photos by Kurt Schwabach with Willy Rosen shown. at [1]
  3. ↑ Flieger, greet me the sun: Hans Albers with choir and Odeon artist orchestra. Odeon 0-11 750 a (Be 10 142), to be heard on dismarc-audio
  4. ↑ the greeting to the stars seems to be a topos in aviator songs, cf. "... greet the stars and greet me the moon" in the text of the sound film hit "Aviators greet me the sun" by Walter Reisch
  5. ↑ Birett p. 84
  6. ↑ label shown. at ytimg.com , to be heard on youtube
  7. ↑ original Hermann Biek (Bick, Byk), cf. Hermann Biek biography
  8. ↑ listen on youtube , unfortunately with the wrong assignment to "Flieger greet mir die Sonne"!
  9. ↑ so dismarc.org after CHARM / Kelly
  10. ↑ cf. CHARM after Kelly; label posted at discogs.com
  11. ↑ cf. Zwarg, PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 36000 to 38999: German, p. 165
  12. ↑ cf. on line discography Tri-Ergon at Lotz Verlag