Hannes Wader sings ...

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Hannes Wader sings ... is a solo album by the singer and songwriter Hannes Wader from 1969.

Hannes Wader sings ...
Studio album by Hannes Wader

Publication
(s)

1969

Label (s) Philips

Genre (s)

Chanson / singer-songwriter

Title (number)

12

running time

36:20

occupation

production

Knut Kiesewetter

Studio (s)

Wind rose Hamburg

chronology
- Hannes Wader sings ... I still wanted so much (1971)

Origin / meaning

At the beginning of his career, Hannes Wader oriented himself primarily to Georges Brassens , the French chanson singer . This 1969 album is the result of this creative phase.

successes

This album sold several 10,000 copies within a few months, which was unusual for the standards of the time. It brought Hannes Wader a record deal, which ultimately brought him the final breakthrough and decisively advanced his career as a songwriter.

Track list

  1. All my friends - 3:52
  2. The beer in this pub - 2:46
  3. Strict fellows - 4:08
  4. The good deed - 2:37
  5. Mrs. Klotzke - 3:52
  6. I had been saving for a long time - 1:50
  7. After 12 - 2:15
  8. The Little Girl's Song - 3:30
  9. The hole under the roof - 1:52
  10. Much too good for me - 3:42
  11. Flowers of the poor - 2:56
  12. Encounter - 3:00

Special features / comments

Knut Kiesewetter , who also produced this album in the Windrose studio in Hamburg, is considered to be the discoverer of Hannes Wader .

Hannes Wader sings ... contains Das Loch unterm Dach, Wader’s first self-composed title, which was written in the early 1960s.

The song encounter was of Reinhard Mey translated into French. It's also featured on Wader's 1980 album It's Time . Mey also recorded it again in German; it appeared on his first studio album from 1967, I wanted to sing like Orpheus .

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