Hot dogs
The Hot Dogs were a Munich Dixieland jazz band that had been popular with German and Bavarian folk songs in the New Orleans and Dixieland styles since the late 1950s . The band leader was Gerhard Sterr .
Career
The Hot Dogs were originally a Munich Dixieland jazz band, which became known throughout Germany primarily for their jazzed up Bavarian songs and other folk music. They were founded in 1955 by students from the Technical University (then Technical University , abbreviated to "TH") and students from Maximilians-Gymnasium as "TH Hot Dogs". The name was soon changed to "New Orleans Hot Dogs" to reflect the band's preferred jazz style. In 1966 the band had their first big success with Ja, so warn's, die alten Rittersleut . This song, written by Karl Valentin , was repeatedly expanded to include new, often immoral stanzas, which were varied from performance to performance. When the band became a professional band from around 1970, the short form "Hot Dogs" became a common name for the band. In 2004, after almost 50 years, the hot dogs broke up. This made them the most successful German Dixieland band, and their musicians are among the very few jazz musicians who could make a living from their music into retirement.
The main engine of the band from the beginning was the pianist Gerhard Sterr (died in October 2011 in Munich) with arrangements and own compositions as well as in business matters. It was also he who began early to bring Bavarian pieces ( Tölzer Schützenmarsch , Wildschütz Jennerwein ) into the band's repertoire, because many famous New Orleans jazz pieces, and not just those, had a similar origin, and thus created the Foundation stone for later success beyond the borders of Munich. With the professionalization of the band, he also formally became the band leader.
After the band broke up, their clarinetist and singer, Ludwig Niedermeier (who died in November 2010 in Tenerife), continued to lead the band as a Munich amateur jazz band with some alumni, under different band names, in which the "hot" was never missing.
Band members by instrument (in brackets the year of entry and the year of exit - the band was dissolved in 2004 - if there is no successor):
- Piano : Gerhard Sterr (1955-2004; also band leader, arranger, composer)
- Trumpet : Fritz Dünckelmayer (1956), Franz "Muggsy" Müller (1960; died 1989), Ingo Ruppert (1982), Gabor Kristof (1983), Kai Lauber (1991)
- Clarinet : Helmut "Hetschi" Breithaupt (1955), Ludwig "Wiggerl" Niedermeier (1958–2004; also vocals)
- Soprano saxophone : Joe Viera (1955–1957)
- Trombone : Malte "Olle" Sund (1955), Bernd Etzel (also arranger, 1966), Alfred "Bob" Biermaier (1975)
- Bass : Theo Breitner (1955), "Chico Smazoni" Erich Schmölz (1957), Herbert Liedl (1968–1971)
- Tuba : Hermann Otto (1956–1957), Bernhard "Goofy" Essmann (also vocals, 1971)
- Banjo : PG Dotzert (also vocals, 1955), Manfred "Manni" Zöbisch (1960), Michael Meister (1968), Helmut Baumann (1979), Sigi Schaller (1995)
- Washboard : Mike von Winterfeld (1955–1956)
- Drums : Fritz Doh (1955), Werner Hierl (1956), Rolf Maurer (1958), Ernst "Icke" Sohn (1961), Hermann Milz (1968), Hans Kreß (1971)
Well-known titles
- 1966: Yes, so warn it, the old knights
- 1966: The Wildschütz Jennerwein
- 1972: Yes, I'm there with my bike
- 1972: The pride of the Au
- Look hi, there's a dead fish in the water!
- Boy, boy, one more time
- The morality from the back swab Bene
- This is only available in Bavaria
- I want a heart with potatoes
- I am the host of Stoa
- Bavaria is a world power
- A cow gets off the subway
- Huh mare
- Eh-las-bas
Discography
Albums
- 1964: Dixie Schlager-Schnauferl - LISTEN TO Electrola SHZE 185
- 1964: Oldtime Schlager Schnauferl - EMI Columbia C 062-28 416
- 1967: Bavarian - Columbia SMC 74 300
- 1968: Hot Dogs IV - Eine Mord (s) Gaudi - EMI Columbia C062-28 477
- 1970: Yes, so warn it, the old knights' - EMI Electrola C 062-28 857
- 1971: Yes, so san's the hot dogs - EMI Electrola C 062-29 412
- 1972: Royal Bavarian Beer Jazz - EMI Columbia C 062-29 447
- 1973: Beer tent party - EMI Columbia, EMI Electrola M 048-29 502 u. C 062-29 502
- 1973: Xund samma - LISTEN TO SHZE 395
- 1975: Neue Ritter Gaudi - EMI Electrola C 062-29 564
- 1975: 20 years of Hot Dogs - Dixie Jubilee - EMI Electrola C 062-29 566
- 1976: Hit Gaudi - EMI Electrola 27 551-1
- 1976: Gaudi on the Isar - EMI Electrola C 062-29 666
- 1977: The big hot dogs Hallelujah - EMI Electrola C 066-32 431 u. 34 687 4
- 1979: Hä-la-li-lo - EMI Electrola C 066-45 270
- 1980: Laugh at Ast - EMI Electrola C 066-45 999
- 1981: Ju-hu-bi-läums-Dixie - EMI Electrola 32 534 0
- 1983: Great fun - KOCH-RECORDS 320.930
- 1990: 35 years of hot dogs - yes so warn's, yes so san's - KOCH INTERNATIONAL 330 071
- 1995: 40 years of Hot Dogs - so warn it, the old knights'
- 2000: Hot Dogs Bavaria 2000 - CD 10.083 (5 tracks)
Compilations and Special Editions
- Yes, warns, the old knights - Deutscher Schallplattenclub 28 136-0 (sampler)
- Yes, that's how the old knights warn - Club special edition 63 441 (sampler)
- Hot Dogs - mfp 176MFP 31 704/05 (sampler)
- Star portrait - EMI Electrola C 054-32 009 (Sampler)
- Dixieland - EMI Electrola C 134-45 045/46 (Sampler)
- Alte Rittersleut 'and other brave Bavarians - special edition Columbia F 60.486 (sampler)
- New rhymes of the old knights' - special edition Columbia F 60.736 (sampler)
- Gaudi, Jux and Rittersleut - EMI Columbia C 188-29 279/80 (Sampler)
- Gaudi, Jux and Rittersleut 2 - EMI Columbia C 152-31 245/246 (sampler)
- Collection Die Hot Dogs (= Oldtime Schlager-Schnauferl) - EMI Electrola C 028-45 476
- Hot Dogs (= Bavarian) - mfp 5665
- Yes so warn the old knights - mfp M 048-31 059 (sampler)
- Gaudi, Jux and Hits (= Gaudi on the Isar) - EMI Electrola Club special edition 65 368
- HOT DOGS Made In Germany - EMI CD
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bandleader of the Hot Dog died , report in Hallo München on December 2, 2010, online at hallo-muenchen.de
- ↑ New Orleans Hot Dogs * - Yes, So Sand's De Oidn Rittersleit / Der Wildschütz Jennerwein , online at discogs.com