Jonny Hill

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Jonny Hill (right) at a lottery event for the Olympic Games , 1972

Jonny Hill (* 27. July 1940 as Ferenc Gillming in Graz ) is an Austrian musician , lyricist , producer and entertainer. He has been living in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland for some time .

Life

Jonny Hill first worked as an actor after school . Here he embodied several smaller roles in the theater and was seen in a supporting role in the feature film Goodbye at the Blue Sea in 1962 . Hill was discovered as a singer by Lotar Olias , who wanted to build him up accordingly because of his Freddy Quinn- like voice. Under the pseudonym Victor he recorded the singles Love is Fire and Water and I'm Your Friend in 1968 . In northern Germany, Jonny Hill then achieved his breakthrough in October 1969 with the hit song “ Back home” . It's the back of A Heart and a Rose . Ilse Seemann presented again at home in the German hit parade of NDR 2. As a result, he immediately rose to seventh place. From there, he continued to shoot up to the top in the coming weeks, where he was able to hold out for a long time. In March 1971 he had a similarly big second success in the north with And kissing her well . In 1979 he achieved his final great success with the reputation of Teddy Bear One-Four , which earned him continued fame and popularity. This recording is a spoken text in the form of a poem, which is underlaid with music. This recording earned him a gold record . In addition to hits and Country -Titeln Hill also sings folk songs and sea shanties.

In 1989, Jonny Hill received his own TV show on RTL called Kilometer 330 . In 1992 he took part in the Grand Prix of Folk Music . His title to the great freedom reached the 9th place in the German preliminary decision. The same thing happened to him in 1995 with the title Sieben Meer , which came in 12th place in the German preliminary decision. He was more successful at the Lower Saxon competition Lieder as beautiful as the north in 1993 , when he took 2nd place with Little Heroes on a Big Trip . He was also represented at the German Schlager Festival in 1998 . His title Der Regenmann took 6th place.

To this day, Jonny Hill can be seen and heard again and again on various television programs. He also works as a producer for others.

Hill has been married to his wife Helga since 1964. He is the brother of the writer Folke Tegetthoff .

Well-known titles

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The best - 30 years
  AT 18th 04/02/2011 (11 weeks)
Please step back
  AT 32 04/18/2014 (4 weeks)
Singles
Call teddy bear one-four
  DE 8th 03/19/1979 (25 weeks)
Hello teddy bear
  AT 29 02/15/1986 (2 weeks)

Jonny Hill has recorded over 350 tracks. The most well-known are:

  • No red roses bloom on a seaman's grave
  • The old sailor cannot sleep at night
  • Canada is so beautiful
  • Farewell is no reason to cry 1974
  • Call Teddy Bear One-Four 1979
  • Roses for mom 1980
  • 500 miles from home 1989
  • Little heroes on a great journey 1993
  • The Rain Man 1998
  • Always have a good trip
  • The old man
  • 30 tons of kerosene
  • El Lute (cf. the person Eleuterio Sánchez Rodríguez )
  • There is a Christmas market in our city
  • Let's part
  • Nothing is as beautiful as Christmas

Discography

Albums

  • A trip around the world in 1969
  • Our home is the ocean in 1971
  • It is far, far, far to Lüdenscheid in 1975
  • On the big journey 1976 (with Käpt'n Ross and the Hummel-Hummel Orchestra)
  • Christmas with you 1976
  • As far as your feet can bear 1979
  • The most famous 24 country hits in German 1979
  • A man and the sea 1980
  • The most beautiful German folk songs in the country sound 1981
  • I'm going on my tour
  • Country Songs 1983
  • Westward 1987
  • Hello teddy bear 1987
  • Anger and Tenderness 1988
  • Without borders 1990
  • Live in concert
  • I am for love 1991
  • King of the Highway 1991
  • This path leads to Haus 1992
  • Truck Gold 1996
  • My love lives in 1993
  • Country Songs 1994
  • Milestones 1994
  • The bells never sound sweeter 1995
  • In the middle of life 1996
  • Never alone again in 1996
  • Let me be as I am 1997
  • Cowboy of the Highway 1998
  • Wolves and Sheep 1999
  • On the big voyage in 2000
  • Until the end of the world in 2002
  • Sincerely, 2003
  • I still have a lot of dreams in 2003
  • Gala of Feelings 2004 (Duet CD with Linda Feller )
  • Lights on the Hills 2006
  • Unforgettable hits 2009
  • Jonny Hill sings .. the most beautiful songs by Freddy Quinn 2011
  • In Nashville 2012.
  • The best - 30 years of 2011
  • Please step back 2014
  • My heart for animals 2017

swell

  1. ↑ Jonny Hill, the Tireless. In: Tagblatt, October 11, 2011 (accessed June 28, 2018).
  2. ↑ www.tegetthoff.at (accessed on July 21, 2012).
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: AT DE
  4. ↑ CMN: CD review Jonny Hill - In Nashville . Retrieved May 3, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Hill, Jonny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gillming, Ferenc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician, lyricist, producer and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz