Hans-Arno Simon

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Anneliese
  DE 5 
gold
gold
03/01/1954 (20 weeks)
Oh, don't keep saying fat to me
  DE 11 04/01/1954 (8 weeks)
My silent dream (as Three Simons)
  DE 23 04/01/1954 (4 weeks)
Ludwig
  DE 30th 04/01/1954 (4 weeks)
It's so beautiful (as Three Simons)
  DE 9 05/01/1954 (8 weeks)
Vodka Fox
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 08/01/1954 (24 weeks)
08/15 Fox
  DE 22nd 03/01/1955 (4 weeks)
mummy
  DE 8th 04/01/1955 (12 weeks)

Hans-Arno Simon (born September 19, 1920 in Breslau ; † July 23, 1989 in Murnau ) was a German composer , singer , pianist and producer .

He was best known as a singer with popular hits like Anneliese , Oh, don't keep saying Dicker to me or Vodka Fox .

Life

Hans-Arno Simon became enthusiastic about music at an early age, but initially mainly in the classical field. At the age of 11 he gave his first public concert. At 14 he composed his first waltz.

After graduating from high school, Simon studied music, art history and German literature in Breslau and took directing and acting lessons. During his studies he also met his wife Ingeborg. In 1943 he worked as an assistant director for Arthur Maria Rabenalt .

After his release from captivity, Hans-Arno Simon became a freelance program designer at NWDR Hamburg , where he founded the Hamburg piano duo with Patrick Hoffmann . Three years later he was a guest solo pianist on all German broadcasters. He also played as a permanent guest at numerous international casinos in Germany.

Before and shortly after the Second World War, Hans-Arno Simon was one of the many German swing musicians who sometimes played “their” jazz in unofficial clubs, but turned to the more lucrative hits or even folk music at the beginning of the 1950s , such as Bully Buhlan , James Last , Ernst Mosch , Coco Schumann and Helmut Zacharias .

Telefunken engaged Simon exclusively in 1951, thus not only securing his recordings as a Schlager interpreter, but also his serious orchestral and piano works. During this time he also created his own television program with Klingendes Rendezvous with Hans-Arno Simon .

Simon is considered the first German pop singer to be awarded a gold record - in 1954 for his hit Anneliese - in the course of his career . After 1955 his successful days as a singer were over; as a composer of film and television music as well as for other pop singers, he was still quite successful.

His son Bernd Simon (1946–2017) worked as a music producer and voice actor , his daughter Pat Simon (* 1949) was a successful pop singer.

Works

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  1. ^ Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 446 .
  2. ↑ Anneliese is unofficially listed as the number one hit in February 1954, but the first official chart list of the magazine “Der Automatenmarkt” did not appear until March
  3. ↑ Charts Germany Hans-Arno Simon Charts Germany Drei Simons
  4. ^ A b c Newspaper clipping of unknown origin, copy under rocknroll-schallplatten-forum , post from July 11, 2011, 1:57 pm
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Hans-Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1989
Place of death Murnau