Hans Blum (composer)

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Singles
Charly Brown (as Hans Blum)
  DE 5 07/04/1959 (32 weeks)
I saw your knee (as Henry Valentino and Paul Bishop's Rag-Time-Band)
  DE 11 12/02/1974 (20 weeks)
  AT 2 04/15/1975 (12 weeks)
In the car in front of me (as Henry Valentino & Uschi)
  DE 8th 10/17/1977 (33 weeks)

Hans-Bernd Blum (born May 23, 1928 in Hanover ) is a German composer , lyricist, music producer and singer . He wrote hits like Beiß not im alles Apfel or The beautiful girl from page one and sang the hit Im Wagen vor mir in 1977 under the pseudonym Henry Valentino . Many of his hits became evergreens . Hans Blum lives in Overath near Cologne .

Beginnings

Geller Quintet - I see your eyes before me day and night

From 1941 Blum studied at the Bückeburg Army Music School because it was financially more affordable than a conservatory . There he learned the double bass , tuba and piano. His teacher played the double bass with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , was able to save the difficult-to-transport instrument over the war years and gave it to his student Blum. In 1943, Hans Last began studying the same instruments at the Army Music School, and he was later successful worldwide under the stage name James Last . In April 1945 the school had to be closed due to the war, so that the training ended for both of them. Since Hans Blum was born before April 1, 1929, he was called up in the last days of the war, but Last was spared by the military.

After his release from French captivity, Blum initially became a member of the Bernd Rabe Swingtett, which specialized in American swing music. In February 1948 he founded the Geller Quintet, which was under contract with the Austrian record label Austroton until 1950 . It consisted of Joe Menke , Olga Geller, Paul Giese, Helga Giese (née Geller) and Hans Blum. The vocal quintet was booked to accompany a large number of hit recordings for performers such as Ingrid Lutz , Vera Molnar or Angèle Durand . The latter was accompanied by September Song / Wenn Mademoiselle Dich kisses (recorded on August 1, 1951) or Die wilden Schwäne / Put your hand in my hand (March 19, 1953). They also appeared with Horst Winter (1952; turn around ), Vico Torriani (August 28, 1952; Madonna / Maddalena ), Bruce Low (July 1952; The South Wind that blows / Tennessee Waltz; Austroton 16019) on. The quintet also recorded records such as You are for me Cleopatra (Austroton 55103; 1951) or Schlager-Revue (Austroton 55106; 1951), and took part in numerous revue films such as The Veiled Maja (cinema premiere on August 31, 1951) .

The 1950s

Hansen Quartet - I love you so much

The Hansen Quartet , named after Hans-Bernd Blum, was formed in 1950 when Hans Blum met the sisters Ursula and Ingetraut Maschke, who were already performing as the Olden siblings at the first television test programs in Hamburg . Together with them and Joe Menke he formed the Hansen Quartet, which in its founding line-up consisted of Ingetraut Maschke, Ursula Maschke, Hans Blum (double bass) and Joe Menke (guitar) and which was subject to some staff fluctuations in the future.

From May 1952 Ingetraut Maschke, Nana Gualdi , Hans Blum and Joe Menke belonged to the quartet, from June 1953 the group consisted of Ingetraut Maschke, Ingeborg Müller-Menckens, Hans Blum and Rolf Simson ; Cast from July 1954: Ingetraut Maschke, Ingeborg Müller-Menckens (later: Ingeborg Langreder), Hans Blum and Tajo Giebeler. It also played live in US soldiers' clubs in 1953.

Like the Geller-Quintett , which was producing at the same time , the four specialized in accompanying pop interpreters ( Fred Bertelmann , Bruce Low) and taking part in revue films. They appeared to accompany Bibi Johns from September 19, 1954 (Katharina) to 1957. Fred Bertelmann was accompanied by Tina Marie / In Hamburg the Nights Are Long (November 3, 1955) and used her services until 1960. The B-side was also the title of the film of the same name, which was released on February 24, 1956. Shortly afterwards, on May 5, 1956, Blum married the quartet member Ingetraut Maschke, with whom he is still married and has three children.

Hans Blum - Charly Brown

The Hansen Quartet recorded a large number of records under their own name. Among them were the titles Trompeten-Joe ( Electrola EG 8515; 1955), Ragtime Joe / Guaracha Ole (EG 8559; 1955), Ich hab dich so lieb / Gut 'Nacht mein Schatz, gut' Nacht (Columbia 27-5555; 1956 ), This evening hour is beautiful / roses in their most beautiful splendor (EG 8571; 1956) and goodbye, Monsieur / So is Paris (EG 8617; 1956). They worked in the revue films Greetings and Kisses from Tegernsee (December 19, 1957) and the film Almenrausch und Edelweiß, which premiered one day later ( The strong Max from Halifax, darling, think of me / I dance today without a shoe; December 20, 1957) With.

Blum also led several orchestras, which he frequently renamed, such as the Hans Blum Orchestra, The Hans Blum Band, The Hans Blum Combo or the Hans Blum Ensemble. The latter accompanied Will Brandes with the Hansen Boys and Girls on his cover version of Marina (November 1959; 7th place on the German hit parade ). Then Blum dared to no longer accompany other interpreters in the choir, but instead appeared under his name on the German cover version of the Coasters hit Charly Brown, written by Carl Ulrich Blecher . The text about a student who always provoked the teachers stuck very closely to the original and was recorded in stereo with overdubbing so that the singing sounds like a polyphonic group. After its publication in June 1959, the title occupied number 1 in the hit lists and in the Bravo music box for three weeks .

Eurovision Song Contest

Blum was involved in the Eurovision Song Contest as an author four times for Germany . For the first time at the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson in 1965 , as Ulla Wiesner with Paradies, where are you? the German preliminary decision won, but was last with zero points in Naples. On February 19, 1966, Blum was third in the German preliminary round for Hanna Dölitsch with Das Zirkuskind . At Euro Vision Song Contest 1967 was Inge Brück with Anouschka and 7 points Eighth; Composer Blum conducted himself. Siw Malmkvist won in 1969 the preliminary decision with Prima Ballerina (in the piece of the title is 23 times before) and arrived in Madrid with 8 points ranked ninth in the year 1986 won Ingrid Peters with over the bridge geh'n the preliminary round and ended up with 62 points in Norwegian mountains in eighth place, with Blum performing live as a conductor .

The 1960s

The German Schlager Festival won Blum three times. On June 25, 1966 Wencke Myhre won with Beiß not immediately in every apple (sixth place in the charts), on July 4th, 1968 Harlequin won with Siw Malmkvist (1968 Blum was represented with three titles; ranked 9th), and on 4th June 1970 Howard Carpendale was successful with The beautiful girl from page one (number six on the hit parade); all of these titles have become evergreens .

Blum wrote a total of ten hits for Graham Bonney , including Das Girl mit dem La-La-La (November 1966; Rank 8) and Siebenmeilenstiefel (September 1967; # 6). When the US television series Flipper was dubbed in German for ZDF on January 1, 1966 , Blum produced the German version of the title song as Hans Delfin und seine Kinder. The Japanese duo Peanuts released the Blum composition Bye Bye Yokohama (# 30) in September 1967 .

In Rio de Janeiro the composer was with sugar in coffee for Erik Silvester (Oct 1969 # 14) on the by Rede Globo discharged 4th International Festival Da Canção (International Song Festival) victorious, while in Caracas (Venezuela) Germany three times at the Festival Ondo Nueva represented.

In 1967, Blum was not only active as a composer, but also took on the role of conductor when he had his orchestra play the melody "Swinging girls of Hamburg" in honor of the Hamburg television ballet. a. appeared in the TV show " Music from Studio B ". This melody was used shortly afterwards for a song that the NDR produced exclusively together with Billy Mo , Bill Ramsey and Gus Backus and which was broadcast in episode 47 of “Music from Studio B” (“I'm Billy, I'm Bill, I am Gus ”).

A pregnant traveling merchant trading carpets on his doorstep inspired Blum to write the title Gypsy Boy. When Alexandra found the sheet of music on Blum's piano, she unpacked her guitar and was thrilled with the song. The title produced by Fred Weyrich was the German contribution to the song festival in Karlsbad on June 22, 1968 (3rd Intervisions Song Festival). With a rank of 22, the sentimental ballad in D flat major and E flat major with Alexandra's alto voice was her most successful placement. The title Maskenball von Blum was planned as Alexandra's second single, but was supplanted by longing - the song of the taiga that was not by Blum. There is an unedited film recording of Maskenball from the weekly newsreel from January 1968, which was never broadcast; the single was only released in November 2000 with a limited edition of 500 copies. In 1968 at least 19 titles from Blum's pen were published, six of them for Alexandra alone (so also on the sixth floor, November 1968). 1969 was Blum's most productive year with at least 31 titles.

In 1964, Blum produced the song "Zebrastreifen white and blue ...", which is still played at every MSV home game, as a commission for the two MSV Duisburg fans Georg Bangert and Walter Bovelet .

The 1970s and later

On February 27, 1971 Katja Ebstein sang his composition I believe in love in the world in the preliminary round A Song for Dublin (1971) and came in second. Life begins every day was his composition for the next elimination A Song for Edinburgh on February 19, 1972, but singer Sandra Haas did not make it to the second round. The French Séverine presented Now the party really starts at the German Schlager Competition , which took place on September 19, 1973, and thus took sixth place.

With a deep grating voice, Blum started a comeback as an interpreter under the pseudonym Henry Valentino in early 1974. The first single was I have seen your knee, which rose to eleventh place in December 1974. The recording, trimmed to ragtime, is based on the last part of the Prelude (1st act) from Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata . When composer Blum was stuck in a traffic jam in 1976 and saw a “nice creature with flowing hair” in the car in front of him, he noticed while overtaking that it was a long-haired man. This experience provided the template for the Valentino hit Im Wagen vor mir with singer Uschi ( Ursula Peysang ), which was released in October 1977 and reached eighth place; the song stayed in the charts for 33 weeks. This ranking was the highest that Blum could achieve under his pseudonym Henry Valentino. The "radam-radam, rada-dada-dam" that occurs in the song goes back to an idea of ​​his wife. Parodic cover versions were made by Adam und die Micky’s ( In the car in front of me there is an old Simpel, 1978), the Toten Hosen under the pseudonym Die Roten Rosen (1987), Otto Waalkes (in the car in front of me there is an old witch), Michael "Bully" Herbig and Sasha (In the covered wagon in front of me), The Gerd Show (In the election campaign in front of me (zone girl), 2005), Dennis & Jesko as Ali Schlüter - Bin Laden ( Bin Laden in front of me, 2009), Schäfer Heinrich ( Im Traktor in front of me, 2012) and the comedy group Your Mothers ( Oh Shit, mein Traumboy, 2001). From 1980 there were duets with Daffi Cramer , a then 26-year-old from Cologne, and in 2002 with the television presenter Katrin Huss .

Hildegard Knef took on Blum's composition The Old Wolf (February 1974), together with Frank Farian and Fred Jay he wrote the title El Lute (July 1979; rank 1) for Boney M. , the last top hit for the group, based on a historical figure . At the time of publication, the sung about was still in Spanish prison and received the gold record awarded for this by the group . At the time of publication as a single for Boney M., the composition for El Lute had already been in the drawer for about six years. In 1973 Blum published the later successful composition as Ich hab dich lieb, so lieb des Hans-Blum-Sound, which, however, was largely ignored by the general public. Sometimes Blum appears at events and in talk shows , such as on April 29, 2011 in the TV talk show Kölner Treff .

Orchestra conductor and lyricist

Blum often acted as orchestra conductor, for example with Bibi Jones ( Happiness has not yet forgotten, recorded on April 19, 1958, for your sake from April 18, 1958 and two other titles), Bruce Low ( Good bye Sheriff, 1959), for die Lale-Andersen -EP Lale Andersen sings Low German songs (1960) as well as with the Hep-Stars ( Waiting for the day, December 1968) and with Liesbeth List ( Der Herr Marquis, January 1969). He wrote the lyrics for Graham Bonney ( Alle cherries, February 1970), Peter Beil ( Tonight, cover version of El cóndor pasa , August 1970), Rita Sandor ( Cassata in Milano, November 1970), Iwan Rebroff (title song of the LP of the same name: My Russia , You are beautiful, 1971), Renate Kern ( Andiamo Amigo, featured in the ZDF hit parade on August 4, 1973; butterfly flies, 1975). Roy Black took on Wilde Cherries bloom early (July 1983), Nicole interpreted Sommerregen on her LP So many songs are in me (October 1983).

Discography with Blum as interpreter (selection)

As a Geller quintet:

  • Come, go with me with Charles Nora, August 1951
  • For me you are Cleopatra / Ade, Ade, Adele (Austroton 55103), 1951
  • Schlager-Revue (Austroton 55106), 1951
  • Never take a woman from Castile (Elite Special 60006), 1951
  • I see your eyes before me day and night / velvet and silk (Austroton 40007), 1951
  • Turn around again / Think of me with Horst Winter (Telefunken 11299), 1952
  • Jodel-Echo / I just can't stop yodelling with Vico Torriani (Decca F 43419), 1952
  • Maria Dolores / On the Canale Grande (Decca F 43 420) with Vico Torriani, 1952
  • Stop / Happy, Happy Days (if I want, Bill steals horses for me) with Vera Molnar (Austroton 58432), 1953

As a Hansen Quartet:

  • The High And Mighty, recorded on February 28, 1955
  • In the hotel "Zum green Hut" / Don't just do it like that (Odeon O-28.757), 1955
  • Dudel-Dudel-Dandy / Poor or Rich (Columbia 27-5.523), 1956
  • Zambezi / Der Niko-Niko-Nikolaus (Columbia 27-5.524), 1956
  • Holiday am Wörthersee / Tip-tippi-tap (Columbia 27-5.535), 1956
  • I Got You on My Mind / Gute Nacht, mein Schatz (Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight) (Columbia 27-5.555), 1956
  • Then Think of Me (My Happiness) / When I Lose You (I Almost Lost my Mind) (Columbia 27-5,565), 1957
  • Your love (True Love) / I love you again and again (Love me Tender) (Columbia 27-5,570), 1957
  • Hot, hot, hot (are the nights in Hawaii) / When the Southern Cross (Electrola 21 174), May 1959

As Die Hansen-Boys und Girls (All Star Band, led by Hans Blum):

  • That's why I only dream of you (All I Have to Do is Dream) (Columbia C 20 971), 1958

Hans Blum:

  • Charly Brown / Who knows why (Electrola 21 184), June 1959
  • Max and Moritz / No, I don't want that (Electrola 21 645), December 1960
  • It started (I'm Alive) / Vergabe, Vergessen (Deutsche Vogue DVS 14465), January 1966

Rex & Ricki:

  • You're my type / goosebumps with Rex Gildo (Electrola 21 298), November 1959

Henry Valentino:

  • I saw your knee / Charly Brown (Epic EPC 2639), December 1974
  • Henry show yourself without, without the bowler hat / The old wolf (Epic EPC 3100), 1975
  • In the car in front of me (thus in the ZDF hit parade 1978) / They called him Sunny Boy - Henry Valentino & Uschi (Crystal 006 32 243), October 1977
  • Green light for Rock'n'Roll / Auf 'ner Wolke with' ner harp - Henry Valentino & Uschi P. (Crystal 006 32 644), 1977
  • If you ask me, I'll be there, let's make it nice, the two of us / Please understand ' - Henry Valentino & Uschi (Crystal 006 32 773), May 1978
  • No overtaking / beautiful strange girl (Crystal 006 45 111), November 1978
  • That was the 50s / The other morning (Crystal 006 45 609), August 1979
  • I'm prohibited from stopping / What we do for love - Henry Valentino & Daffi (Cramer) (Hansa 101 162-100), 1979
  • The woman at the wheel / You are to blame - Henry Valentino & Uschi (Hansa 101 239-100), 1981
  • Dear old house / Nobody will wait for me (Electrola 46 279), April 1981
  • She dances alone (single, Electrola), 1981 (thus in the ZDF hit parade 1981)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart discography Austria.
  2. ↑ Hit record, German chart singles on CD-ROM, Taurus Press
  3. ↑ Grater voice: Pop singer Henry Valentino turns 90 , swp.de , May 22, 2018
  4. ↑ Lothar Berndorff, Tobias Friedrich: 1000 ultimate chart hits: The best songs and their story. 2008, p. 11.
  5. ↑ Stefanie Kaune: In the car behind Uschi. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. August 7, 2010, p. 19.
  6. ↑ Joe Menke was the father of the NDW singer Miss Menke and producer of Truck Stop . He wrote All Girls Want to Kiss for Leo Leandros in 1959 (covered in 1960 by Peter Kraus ) and ran a recording studio in Maschen .
  7. ^ Jonas-Erik Schmidt dpa, Volksstimme Magdeburg: Pop singer Henry Valentino turns 90. Retrieved on April 4, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Margot Eskens sang the song in the preliminary round, but Hanna Dölitsch recorded the record. Eskens won the preliminary round with The Hands of the Clock.
  9. ^ Matthias Bardong, Herrmann Demmler, Christian Pfarr: Lexikon des Deutschen Schlers. 1992, p. 331.
  10. ↑ a b What does Hans Blum actually do? ( Memento from April 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Stern. Edition 19/2005, May 2, 2005.
  11. ↑ Coming Events. In: Billboard magazine. June 15, 1968, p. 55.
  12. ↑ How the zebra twist found its way into the MSV stadium. In: derwesten.de. December 18, 2014, accessed December 19, 2014.
  13. ↑ In the car in front of me ... drives an old Simpel.
  14. ↑ discography. ( Memento of January 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  15. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Sasha and Winnetouch. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bullybase.deOn: bullybase.de.
  16. ↑ In the election campaign before me. Images.
  17. ↑ Mention. On: mopo.de.
  18. ↑ hitparade.ch.
  19. ↑ Mention. On: golyr.de.
  20. ↑ was-wurde-aus.at.
  21. ↑ Official German Charts - Katrin Huss + Henry Valentino In the car in front of me (the other version). Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Source: WDR4 - Schallplattenbar broadcast from May 25, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blum, Hans-Bernd (full name); Valentino, Henry (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, lyricist, music producer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover