I have a gramophone at home

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I have a gramophone at home is the German title of the Foxtrot hit Já mám doma gramofon , written by the two Czech composers Jara Beneš and Karel Hašler in 1925. The German text on it was composed by Dr. Fritz Löhner under his stage name “Beda”.

He tells in three stanzas of "our friend Polatschek", who no longer goes to a concert because he can listen to music from his gramophone much more comfortably at home. It is also helpful when trying to approach a beautiful woman who is not exactly willing at first: "Let's do it with music". As a final punchline comes the hinted comparison of the wife with the machine: she too “starts screaming right away” when the man doesn't want to follow.

In addition, the song represents a reflex on the modern medium of the gramophone, similar to the one with which Hermann Leopoldi's hit “Die Schöne Adrienne hat ein Hochantenne” responded to the recently installed medium of entertainment broadcasting in the same year.

The song was published by the Viennese Bohème-Verlag Berlin-Vienna-New York. It was also included in anthology 6 of the series “Zum 5-Uhr Tee”, which was jointly organized by the music publishers Wiener Bohème Verlag (Vienna) and Anton J. Benjamin (Leipzig).

The tenor Max Kuttner sang the song on gramophone record in Berlin in July 1925. Svasse Berqvist wrote a Swedish text Jag hemma ha en gra on the melody; he was recorded by Thor Modéen with orchestral accompaniment at Nordisk Polyphon. Instrumental recordings are available from the bands Dajos Béla , Otto Dobrindt (as saxophone orchestra Dobbri), Bernard Etté and Paul Godwin .

The German actor and radio presenter Hans-Günter Martens called his broadcast on BR in 1969 , in which he remembered popular artists with old records, “I have a gramophone at home”.

refrain

I have a Gra-, a Gra-
A gramophone, that
makes it so nice “Trara, trara”,
you know.
You put the needle in
, it'll start screaming soon.
The biggest sensation
This is my gramophone!

Sound documents (examples)

  • Gramophone 20 254 / B 42 238 (Matr. 3660 ar) I have a gramophone at home. Foxtrot from Hašler & Beneš. Text: Beda. Max Kuttner. Up. July 1925
  • Gramophone 19 397 / B 60 623 (Matr. 9 bg) I have a gramophone at home. Foxtrot from Hašler & Beneš. Paul Godwin with his artist ensemble from the Nelson Theater Berlin.
  • Polyphon 31 551 / 3-27 456 (Matr. 48 bf) I have a gramophone at home. Foxtrot from Hašler & Beneš. Dance Orchestra Joan Florescu [d. i. Paul Godwin].
  • Polyphon XS 42 410 / S 42410 (Matr. 2297 at) Jag hemma ha en gra (I have a gramophone at home) by Hasler & Benes, text by Svasse Berqvist. Sjungen av Thor Modeen med orkesterackompanjemang.
  • Vox 01904 (Matr. 2370 A) I have a gramophone at home. Foxtrot from Hašler & Beneš. Bernard Etté Orchestra. Berlin, up. September 1925
  • Homocord B.1873 (Matr. M 17 956) (A 15 12 25) I have a gramophone at home. Foxtrot from Hašler & Beneš. Text: Beda. Artist's band Arpád Városz with singing [= Max Kuttner]
  • Odeon A 5534 (Matr. XBe 4722) I have a gramophone at home: Shimmy-blues (Hašler & Beneš) Sándor Józsi Chapel [d. i. Dajos Béla]
  • Odeon AA 50372 (Matr. XxBo 8600) I have a gramophone 'at home': Shimmy / Karel Hašler and Jara Beneš. Dajos Béla
  • Beka B. 5323 (Matr. 33 003) I have a gramophone 'at home': Foxtrot / Karel Hašler and Jara Beneš. Saxophone Orchestra Dobbri.
  • Kalliope K 766 (Matr. 3628) I have a gramophone 'at home': Foxtrot / by Hašler and Beneš. String orchestra
  • Gnom K 172 (mat. 4 OP) (15 cm) I have a gramophone at home. Foxtrot (Hašler & Beneš) dance orchestra, open. 1925-03 / 04

also: Pigmynette No. 71 (mat. 4 OP) (15 cm) »Pigmynette-Orchester«

literature

  • Oliver Bekermann: “There are always miracles”: an investigation into the mutual dependence of everyday communication and German hits . Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8370-0045-0 .
  • Roman Sandgruber: Current of Time: The Century of Electricity. Veritas Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-85329-960-1 , p. 98.
  • Bärbel Schrader, Jürgen Schebera: The golden twenties. Art and culture of the Weimar Republic. Edition Leipzig, 1987, ISBN 3-361-00038-6 , pp. 117-118, 139.
  • Günther Schwarberg: A man and his whole heart: Fritz Löhner-Beda. In: time online. October 23, 1992, p. 3.
  • Moritz Oriole: Halalí: a theme with twenty variations. Volume 2, Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2010, ISBN 978-3-938647-18-9 , p. 237.
  • Monika Sperr: The big hit book: German hits 1800-today . Verlag Rogner & Bernhard, 1978, p. 119.
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 162 (on Karel Hašler).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ reproduced at Grammophon-platten.de according to contemporary song booklet
  2. ↑ to which Theodor Waldau contributed the text as “Wau-Wau”; 2 verses and rhymes reproduced on flashlyrics.com
  3. ↑ cf. Bekermann p. 56; Konrad Heidkamp: The beautiful Adrienne has a high antenna. In: The time. 53/2004, December 22, 2004; to be heard in the Austrian media library, at mediathek.at
  4. ↑ publisher no. WBV 656. 3, title depicted. at ilab.org as No. 119 (Hungarian) and 120 (German)
  5. ↑ Title of the sheet music with drawing by Willy Herzig . at harvard.edu
  6. ↑ Association of VolksLiedWerke Austria and South Tyrol web catalog
  7. ↑ actually Jacob Wilhelm Constantin B: son Bergquist, b. April 28, 1887 in Lund, died December 21, 1959 in Stockholm, songwriter and revue writer, cf. sv.wiki
  8. ↑ Thor Odert Folke Modéen, actor, singer, comedian. Born on January 22nd, 1898 in Kungsör, Sweden. Died on May 28, 1950 in Stockholm. See sv.wiki
  9. ↑ to listen to at youtube.com
  10. ↑ to be heard on youtube , published again by Christian Zwarg on truesound transfers CD TT-3055 as track 09
  11. ↑ listen on youtube
  12. ↑ cf. lotz-verlag.de Gnome labeldisco