Jim Cowler

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Jim Cowler ; actually Karl Gustav Herbert Noack (born January 23, 1898 in Berlin ; † July 15, 1964 in Berlin) was a German pop and film composer . He also published under the pseudonyms Herbert Henderson and Herbert Kauler.

Life

His parents ran an inn with a restaurant at Grosse Frankfurter Strasse 128. After taking piano lessons at the age of 12, he was accepted at the Berlin Music Academy and studied piano and church music with Julius Schuppmann and Bernhard Heinrich Irrgang . He also played in his parents' restaurant and as a musical companion for silent films in various cinemas. Due to skillful music arrangements, he got an engagement in 1913 at what was then the Biophon-Theater Berlin in Alexanderstr. 39/40.

After serving as a soldier in World War I , he published his first composition, the waltz intermezzo Liebesklänge , in 1919 by his brother Walter Noack. Other successful titles of the time were Berlin-Königsberg , Tanzelfchen , Mittsommernacht , Mohammed Aly and Araby .

In June 1923 the VOX dance orchestra recorded Araby on VOX 01378, in August Mohamed Aly was released on Beka 32181. Further recordings followed.

In 1922/23 he met the music publisher of Curt Max Roehr . This recommended him the choice of an English pseudonym, whereupon he took the name Jim Cowler. However, his arrangements and instrumentations for other composers such as Henry Richards , Walter Kollo , Ray Henderson , Frederick Loewe , Leo Fall continued under his birth name.

He achieved international success in 1927 with the title Today I was at Frida , which was recorded by numerous record brands and also appeared abroad under the title All about Frida . Numerous other hit compositions followed, together with the lyricists Fritz Rotter , Kurt Schwabach , Bruno Balz , Wolfgang Böttcher , Werner Brink and Leo Breiten . Important interpreters of his songs were the Comedian Harmonists ( I have a golden wife room ) and Richard Tauber ( There is a woman who will never forget you ).

From 1930, film music for Pension Schoeller (1930) and Das Rheinlandmädel (1930) followed. In the film from 1931 One must forgive a woman , he also performed with his orchestra and his own composition With You, I would really like to go to Spain . Later followed If I'd king (1933), The Mysterious Mr. X (1936), the main results: A man (1933?) And the violet from Potsdamer Platz (1936) with the hit violets, little blue violets . The radio secures the collaboration of the composer for radio plays, special music and recitals. Own performances at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and at the Komische Oper Berlin follow.

In 1938 his foreign pseudonym caused him trouble with the Reichsmusikkammer , which threatened to ban him from his profession. He planned to emigrate, traveled to New York and London , but returned disappointed because he didn't like either city. As a compromise, he agreed on the name Herbert Kauler with the Reich Chamber of Culture. Since his style was no longer in great demand, but he was also not prepared to adapt too much to political requirements, the number of publications fell sharply. There were also health problems. From 1941 until the end of the war, the musical practice of the profession took place in the form of front support from the eastern to the western front with ensemble performances. Meanwhile, his Berlin apartment in Berlin was bombed out and personal documents and his own music archive were lost.

After the war he began to take up his compositional activity again and published titles like The first kiss is given in the morning , Nice weather , contrasts , Tenoki , music of the world , We are not from the Neckar , come back soon , does it have to be a cowboy , Snowflake , think of our love . He also gave guest appearances in various cities, but could no longer build on the earlier successes.

Cowler was married twice. He died on July 15, 1964 at the age of 66 and was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

Works

Cowler's entire musical oeuvre, which is mainly shaped by the period from 1919 to 1937, includes around 725 published and printed own hit melodies, around 250 edited works by others, six film scores and more than thirty radio plays. He has also written the music for at least five listed plays.

Bat

  • When I need love, I go to Pauline (1928)
  • Waiter, two mochas (1930)
  • Who Has No Bride In Spring (1930)
  • You are my great love (1930)
  • I'm driving my little limousine (1930)
  • My heart says softly: I love you (1930)
  • The sea rushes a love song (1933)
  • Greetings from Baden (1933)
  • A Little Tear (1933)
  • Darling with the Blond Hair (1934).
  • Little Seagull, fly to Heligoland (1934 - probably the composer's most famous song)
  • I never forget a love song from Hawaii (1934)
  • My great love lives in a small town (1935)
  • The ring with the dark blue stone (1935)
  • When a little star falls from the sky (1936)
  • The old postilion (1936)

Film music

  • Pension Schoeller (1930)
  • The Rhineland Girl (1930)
  • A woman must be forgiven for everything (1931)
  • If I were King (1933)
  • The Mysterious Mr. X (1936)
  • Main Hit: A Man (1933)
  • The Violet from Potsdamer Platz (1936)

effect

Jim Cowler's song "Who has no bride in spring", text by Kurt Schwabach, was re-recorded in 1968 on a record by " Insterburg & Co. ".

Web links

  • If I need love then I go to Pauline. Marek Weber and his orchestra. Electrola EG984 - 1928 [1]
  • Who doesn't have a bride in spring / Austin Egen with piano, banjo and drums. Electrola EG1735 - Dec. 1929 [2]
  • Waiter - two mochas! Fred Bird Rhythmicans / Luigi Bernauer. Homocord 4-3807-I [3]
  • “I'm driving my little limousine”, Six-Eight Step (text by Willy Rosen ). Herbert Fröhlich and his orchestra / Kurt Mühlhardt. Crystal red No. 3092 - 1930 [4]
  • Little seagull fly to Heligoland, slowly. Foxtrot. Orchestra Emil Roósz / Erik Helgar. Kristall No. 3450 - 1935 [5]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/727096-Jim-Cowler/images
  2. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/677510-Ray-Henderson/images
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 632.
  4. ↑ Record on "45cat" . Recording on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXEA0iWGkwo .
personal data
SURNAME Cowler, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noak, Herbert (real name); Henderson, Herbert; Kauler, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hit and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1964
Place of death Berlin