Marion Maerz sings Burt Bacharach - page one

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Marion Maerz sings Burt Bacharach - page one
Studio album by Marion Maerz

Publication
(s)

1971

admission

March 1971

Label (s) LP: Reprise Records
CD: Bureau B

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

pop

Title (number)

12

running time

34:50

occupation

production

Siegfried E. Loch

Studio (s)

Cornet-Studio, Cologne

chronology
Marion (1966) Marion Maerz sings Burt Bacharach - page one Take me to you (1972)

Marion Maerz sings Burt Bacharach - page one is a music album by the singer Marion Maerz . The work contains 12 German-language cover versions by the American composer Burt Bacharach . The arranger and orchestra director of the studio production was Ingfried Hoffmann . The album was released in 1971 as a long-playing record on the Reprise Records label and was re-released on CD for the first time in 2009 under the title Marion Maerz - Burt Bacharach Songbook with a different title sequence .

History of origin

Marion Maerz, 2007, at one of the “Cover Me” charity concerts in Cologne, where she sang some pieces from the album.

In 1965, the singer Marion Maerz with the beat - hit He's back scored a major success. The title, composed by Christian Bruhn , climbed to sixth place on the German charts at the beginning of 1966. The following singles initially sold satisfactorily, but could not repeat the success of the hit He is back there . In the late 1960s, Marion, at that time still marketed without a surname, was increasingly dissatisfied with the selection of titles by her producer Peter Meisel . In 1970 the interpreter left the Hansa music label .

A few months later, the music producer Siegfried E. Loch became aware of the artist, now without a record deal . Loch had advanced to a successful producer of contemporary and sophisticated light music in the 1960s . He has produced records by Klaus Doldinger , Katja Ebstein , George Gruntz , among others . the Rattles and Attila Zoller . In 1970, the record producer, who was only thirty years old, became the founding managing director of Hamburg- based Kinney Musik GmbH, which was renamed WEA Records a little later .

Burt Bacharach, 2008

In collaboration with Marion Maerz, Siegfried E. Loch developed the idea of ​​producing a concept album with German-language cover versions of the successful songwriter duo Burt Bacharach and Hal David . For most of the pieces, lyrics by well-known lyricists such as Ernst Bader , Michael Kunze or Günter Loose were available. Sporadic German versions of Bacharach titles with the same text have already appeared, including Ein Haus ist kein Zuhaus / A House Is Not a Home ( Corry Brokken ), Ask just your heart / Trains and Boats and Planes ( The Five Tops ), Warten und Hoffnung / Wishin 'and Hopin' ( Dusty Springfield ), When I see the rain tropics '/ Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head ( Caterina Valente ), It's all over now / Anyone Who Had a Heart ( Petula Clark ), Go over / Walk On By ( Dionne Warwick ) and So wie ich / Close to You ( Gerhard Wendland ).

Siegfried E. Loch chose the organist Ingfried Hoffmann as arranger and orchestra leader , with whom he has already produced several jazz LPs that have garnered international attention. In March 1971 the album was recorded in the Cornet studio in Cologne under the direction of the sound engineer Wolfgang Hirschmann . The production coordination was carried out by the drummer Gibson Kemp from Liverpool .

title

Track list (order on the CD)
  1. Wait and hope
  2. Just ask your heart
  3. Like me
  4. Don't take everything so hard
  5. When I see the raindrops
  6. Everything is over now
  7. A house is not a home
  8. Lonely dreams
  9. The end of the journey
  10. Go over
  11. I wish so much from you
  12. On this earth

Title list (order on the LP)

  1. Just ask your heart (Trains and Boats and Planes)
    (German text: Ernst Bader )
  2. Just like me (Close to You)
    (German text: Michael Kunze )
  3. Waiting and hoping (Wishin 'and Hopin')
    (German text: Michael Kunze)
  4. A house is not a home
    (German text: Günter Loose )
  5. Go past (Walk On By)
    (dt text. Ernst Bader)
  6. On this earth (All Kinds of People)
    (German text: Michael Kunze)
  7. Lonely dreams (Odds and Ends)
    (German text: Günter Loose)
  8. The end of the journey (Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa)
    (German text: Michael Baier )
  9. Don't take everything so hard (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
    (German text: Michael Kunze)
  10. When I see the raindrops (Raindrops Keep Fallin 'on My Head)
    (German text: Hans Bradtke )
  11. Everything is over now ( Anyone Who Had a Heart )
    (German text: Ernst Bader)
  12. I wish so much from you (I Say a Little Prayer)
    (German text: Kurt Hertha )

All tracks by Burt Bacharach (music) and Hal David (text).

Publications

Label of the LP Marion Maerz sings Burt Bacharach - Seite eins , 1971

The album was released in 1971 on the Reprise Records label using the new artist's surname Maerz as an LP with the title Marion Maerz sings Burt Bacharach - page one (order number: REP 44135). Although the long-playing record was extensively advertised by the TV guide TV Hören undsehen and the NDR broadcast clips for some of the songs , Maerz landed a commercial failure with it. The production of other, similar long-playing records ( page two, page three, ... ) originally planned by Siegfried E. Loch was no longer realized. There was also no single release. As part of the easy-listening - revivals since the 1990s, the LP was finally a sought cult object . In February 2009 the label Bureau B re-released the album on CD (order number: bb 20) with a new title sequence and a redesigned cover .

Reviews

The re-release of the album received mostly positive reviews. For Philipp Schmidt from the music magazine now! the implementation by arranger Hoffmann was very appealing. The songs have that certain slight swing and Maerz interprets them with a good feeling. In Computer Bild's online magazine, Stefan Weber also praised the jazzy, lavishly orchestrated easy-listening garb, which looks great on the songs, and added: "Maerz and her colleagues reveal their true strengths beyond these airy, light pop songs , the dreamy "A house is not a home" ("A House Is Not A Home"), for example, turns into a solemn, melancholy chanson in their interpretation . "

The online feuilleton satt.org operated by the publisher SuKuLTuR came to the conclusion: “ None of that is German Schlager, but rather difficult to classify, internationally oriented music between jazz, musical , easy listening and pop. […] Even if Marion Maerz did not succeed in establishing herself as a serious chansonette with Bacharach's songs, today she can be proud of having taken this risk. "Mario Lasar from the music magazine Intro , on the other hand, found that" German-language singing is the Pieces close to hits ”, but the“ brilliance of the compositions ”is left untouched. In addition, the degree of immediacy with which one perceives the song content would have increased in the course of the translation.

Kevin Macneil Brown of the New York online magazine dusted wrote: "The arrangements often have a strange, dreamlike quality." The track performed by Maerz "with a touch of Brecht - Weill " when I see the raindrops '(Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head) sounds "bizarre, maybe even expressionistic ". The American jazz critic Will Layman from PopMatters, on the other hand, criticized the fact that the German texts, which he did not understand in terms of content, had some rough edges for American listeners. The clever arrangements of the Bacharach originals are now a "pale imitation". Maerz sounds "bright and melodic" and about as American as "singers in the Mickey Mouse Club ".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jan Feddersen : Text accompanying the CD Marion Maerz: I'm back . Bear Family Records (BCD 15 964 AH). 1996.
  2. ↑ Information on the inner cover of the LP Marion Maerz sings Burt Bacharach - page one . Reprise Records (44135). 1971.
  3. ↑ Thomas Worthmann: Accompanying text and interview with Marion Maerz in the booklet of the CD Marion Maerz: Burt Bacharach Songbook . Bureu B (order number: bb 20). 2009.
  4. ↑ Philipp Schmidt: The German Dionne Warwick? A rediscovery ( memento of the original from February 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.now-on.at archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . now !. February 13, 2009.
  5. ↑ Marion Maerz "The Burt Bacharach Songbook"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.computerbild.de   . Computer picture . 2009.
  6. ^ Marion Maerz: Burt Bacharach Songbook . satt.org (a SuKuLTuR product). February 23, 2009.
  7. ↑ Mario Lasar: MARION MAERZ The Burt Bacharach Songbook  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.intro.de   . Intro . 2009.
  8. ↑ Kevin Macneil Brown: Marion Maerz: Burt Bacharach Songbook . dusted. February 16, 2009.
  9. ^ Will Layman: Marion Maerz: Burt Bacharach Songbook . PopMatters. March 17, 2009.