Hörzu (label)
Hörzu was a music label from the program magazine of the same name .
The Hörzu record edition
The radio and television program magazine Hör zu (today Hörzu ) had created a record edition of the same name in 1963, in which licensed productions, initially from the major labels EMI Electrola and Teldec , later also from other companies such as Polydor and finally the CBS were sold. Initially, three records were released each month. The LPs were advertised with self-adverts in the magazine and marketed through retailers, including mail order , at a price of DM 18 . The first productions were classical recordings by Maria Callas , Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic , followed by pop music recordings such as the Beatles ( Please Please Me and other Knüller 1964), The Rolling Stones ( Got Live If You Want It! 1967 '), The Beach Boys , The Monkees and The Mamas and Papas , also light jazz from the WDR Big Band Köln / Peter Herbolzheimer , Joe Cocker , the Count Basie Orchestra , Eugen Cicero , Jacques Loussier or Herbie Mann , entertainment and dance music from Herb Alpert, for example & The Tijuana Brass , James Last , Max Greger , Paul Kuhn and Günter Noris .
The selection was tailored to the “mind” of the Hörzu readership; In the opinion of the Electrola press spokesman at the time, Herfried Kier, the Hörzu records were "the first real folk long-playing records that even the smallest dealer in the country can sell well." After 1970, progressive bands such as Steppenwolf , Deep Purple and Pink Floyd expanded with the music and German groups such as Can , Eloy or Kraftwerk the Hörzu catalog. Production ended in the early 1990s with records and the like. a. by Udo Jürgens and Howard Carpendale as well as disco music ( Keep On Jogging 1994).
Some special features were released as Hörzu records, such as the 1965 album The Golden Boy by Elvis Presley , which had to be withdrawn because no arrangements had been made with the singer's management and could only be released in 1981 (again by Hörzu ). However, a small part of the edition had been delivered - collector's items are sought after today. The Beatles album Magical Mystery Tour was released for the first time in Germany as a Hörzu record in 1971 ; in a collaboration with Apple Records , this was the first real stereo release of the album worldwide : it was released five years earlier than in the UK.
Listen to Black Label
In addition, a sub-label was created around 1968 with the name Hör Zu Black Label . Music was published there that was considered avant-garde . Under license from the original labels such as WERGO , a series of recordings in the areas of electronic and new music , krautrock , cabaret , songwriters (Da singt wer) to progressive rock , fusion and free jazz by John and Alice Coltrane , Friedrich Gulda, for example , were released there until 1972 (Vienna So Blue) , Hans-Joachim Hespos , Gerard Hoffnung , Rolf & Joachim Kühn (Monday Morning) , György Ligeti , Gunther Schuller (Jazz at the Opera) , Soft Machine , Steve Miller Band , Helmut Qualtinger , Dieter Schnebel , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Vanilla Fudge (The Beat Goes On) , Miroslav Vitouš ( The Bass ) , Iannis Xenakis and Bernd Alois Zimmermann .
literature
- Roland Butza Show like never before - 50 years of HÖR ZU long-playing record Bedburg (self-published) 2012
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Electrola & Teldec tie with Horzu Mag . In: Billboard, August 31, 1963
- ↑ Information at The Beatles Record Collection
- ^ Listener within the reader Der Spiegel 39/1965
- ↑ Elvis on Records ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2013 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.
- ↑ Die-beatles-seite.de
- ↑ Listen to Black Label at rateyourmusic.com
- ↑ Information about the book
