Hansen Quartet
The Hansen Quartet emerged from the Geller Quintet , was founded in Cologne in 1950 and was the best known and most booked German music ensemble in the 1950s .
history
The founding members were next to the bassist Hans Blum (later as a soloist under the pseudonym Henry Valentino known), the guitarist Joe Menke and the two as brothers Olden tingelnden sisters Ursula and Ingetraud Maschke that Blum (according to different sources) at a show in Dusseldorf or had met and won a television test broadcast in Hamburg . The formation changed several times over the years. Hans Blum and Ingetraut Maschke always stayed together and got married in 1956. Two years earlier, Joe Menke and new member Adriana Klein alias Nana Gualdi had become a married couple. Both formed the Starlets with short-term member Rolf Simson.
Hans Blum, after whom the Hans en Quartet was named, was not only the founder of the group, but also the man who took care of everything. He made and coordinated the appointments, composed and arranged the tracks. He also wrote for other artists, such as Gypsy Boy for Alexandra .
The group can be found on countless hit recordings from that time, both as independent interpreters and as background voices with other singers. She not only appeared under her own name, but also under more than 30 different, more or less obvious pseudonyms , including:
- Hansen Boys & Girls
- Hans Blum Ensemble
- Bernd Hansen Choir
- Hansen singer.
Sometimes, especially when the group acted as a background, the record companies used fantasy pseudonyms for the quartet that matched the title, so it is no longer possible to clarify exactly how many sound carriers the Hansen Quartet actually sang on.
The Hansen Quartet broke up in the early 1960s. Hans Blum later had great success again under the pseudonym Henry Valentino, especially with Im Wagen vor mir .
Small, incomplete discography
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Own title
- 1954 - Never forget me Karolin / I'm looking for you, I need you, I love you (Original: I Want You, I Need You, I Love You ) - Columbia 45-DW 5570
- 1956 - The pirate Jonny from Singapore / Columbus Boogie - Columbia 27-5500
- 1956 - Chacha Spoke the Maharajah / Cha Cha Cha - Columbia 27-5506
- 1956 - Dudel Dudel Dandy / Poor or Rich - Columbia 27-5523
- 1956 - Holiday am Wörthersee (from the film of the same name) / Tip-Tippi-Tap - Columbia 27-5535
- 1956 - Cuba girls are brown / It wasn't a rich man - Columbia 27-5550
- 1956 - I love you so much (Original: I Got You on My Mind ) / Gut 'Nacht mein Schatz, gut' Nacht (Original: Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight ) - Columbia 27-5555
- 1957 - I look for you, I need you, I love you (Original: I Want You I Need You I Love You ) / Never forget me - Columbia 45 DW 5584
- 1957 - When I Lose You (Original: I Almost Lost My Mind ) / Think of Me - Columbia 27-5565
- 195? - How nice that you exist (Original: The Things I Didn't Do ) / When tender blues - Columbia 45-DW 5610
- 195? - Turn the lights off / Something completely different - Electrola E 21992
- 1957 - Zuckerpüppi (from the film Greetings and Kisses from Tegernsee )
- 1958 - That's why I only dream of you (Original: All I have to do is dream ) - Columbia C 20 971, 1958 (as Die Hansen-Boys und Girls )
- 1958 - Mambo-Bolero (from the movie The Double Husband ) / Der weird Otto (Ragtime) - Electrola 7 MW 17-8500
- 1959 - Blue Guitar (Original: I'm looking for you and you're looking for me ) / Leave the baby, leave that (Original: Teasin ' ) - Columbia 45 DW 5747 / C21292
- 1962 - On the Havelin / Berlin at night in the streets - Electrola E 21099
undated:
- Banjo-Boogie / Dudel-Dudel-Dandy (published in the USA on Capitol)
- We have visitors (the relatives are here)
As a background group
| 1952 - And I take a girl to the altar | with Lale Andersen and Vico Torriani | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1958 - I look for you, I need you, I love you (= I Want You, I Need You, I Love You ) /
Don't forget me Karolin |
with Hans Blum - Columbia 45 ext.5584 | as "The Hansen Quartet" |
| 1958 Hey Mr. Banjo (Foxtrot) / mouth full of tricks (Bobby's Rag) | with Bobby Jaan - Electrola 17-8514 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 195? - The Besenbinderball (Rag-Fox) / Where Where Where is Dixieland (Dixieland-Fox) | with Bibi Johns - Electrola 17-8544 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 195? - Tina Marie / In Hamburg the nights are long | with Fred Bertelmann - Electrola 17-8546 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1955 - Din Skol Min Skol / Billy's Banjo | with Bibi Johns - Electrola 17-8576 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1955 - Mama Nicolini / Le Grand Tour L'Amour | with Angele Durand - Electrola 17-8597 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1956 - The Tom from Tennessee / Wilde Rose from Arizona | with Bruce Low - Electrola 17-8599 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1956 - Every day has its evening / The bell founder of Tyrol | with Carl Hoppe - Electrola 17-8602 | as "Bernd Hansen Choir" |
| 1956 - Riviera (from the melody film Powder Snow to Overseas ) / Over seven seas (Lula-lula-lei) | with Fred Bertelmann - Electrola 17-8604 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1956 - Salute, Venezia, Salute / Don't Say Addio (Tango Serenade from the Kopp film Forget if you can ) | with Georges Guetary - Electrola 17-8635 | as "Hansen Quartet" |
| 1956 - And there goes the wind / Hernandos Hideway | with Bruce Low - Electrola 17-8637 | as "Hansen Choir" |
| 1956 - Johannes / Je vous adore | with Angele Durand - Electrola 45-8711 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1956 - Mr. Lichtenstein - Mr. Lichtenstein / Schnibbe-Di-Bib | with Angele Durand - Electrola 45-8712 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1956 - Wedding Polka (Wedding Polka) / Wedding Polka (Wedding Polka) | with Bruni Lehnen - Electrola 45- 8723 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1957 - Come with me to Mexico / In the evening in Rome | with Frank Olsen - Electrola 45-8798 | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1958 - Blue Jean Boy / Sunshine | with Conny Froboess - Electrola E 20966 | as "the Hansen Boys and Girls" |
| 1958 - In the Sierra Nevada / Two friends | with Bruce Low - Electrola E 21094 | as "the Hansen Boys" |
| 1958 - Little Girl / A girl with 16 | with Conny Froboess - Electrola E 21257 | as "the Hansen Boys and Girls" |
| 1958 - We 'll see you again tomorrow / You belong to my heart | with Alice Babs - Electrola E 21317 | as "the Hansen Boys" |
| 1958 - Midi-Midinette / Who will be the first | with Conny Froboess - Electrola E 21490 | as "the Hansen Boys and Girls" |
| 1958 - A signal sounds softly | with Lale Andersen | as "Orchestra Hans Blum and the Hansen Quartet" |
| 1958 - Hein Mück | with Lale Andersen | as "the Hansen Boys and Girls" |
| 1959 - Lili Marleen (new recording) | with Lale Andersen | as "the Hansen Boys" |
| 1959 - A ship will come | with Lale Andersen | as "Bernd-Hansen Choir" |
| 1960 - Tom Pillibi | with Jacqueline Boyer | as "Hansen Boys & Girls with the Hans Blum Orchestra" |
| undated - The nights are long in Hamburg | with Fred Bertelmann | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| undated - His Masters Voice | with Bibi Johns and Paul Kuhn | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| undated - after us the flood | with Bibi Johns and Paul Kuhn | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
| undated - little love song | with Lys Assia | as "the Hansen Quartet" |
Web links
- Literature by and about the Hansen Quartet in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Blum / Valentino biography , accessed June 8, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Danny: Who - what - where ... is the Hansen Quartet? In: Bild am Sonntag , [around November 29, 1959].
- ↑ a b Gualdi biography , accessed June 8, 2013.
- ^ Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit balance sheet. German chart singles 1956–1980 . Taurus Press, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 92.