Maureen René
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Maureen René (born July 10, 1933 in Southampton , England ) is a former singer who was active in the field of pop music worldwide. In Germany she became known for her record releases in the 1950s and 1960s .
Musical career
At the age of 21 Maureen René came to Wiesbaden from Great Britain to work as a singer in the troop support of the American armed forces. Through her public appearances, the management of the Munich low-cost label Tempo became aware of René and signed her. Tempo was known for its cover versions of successful hits, and so René's first release on Tempo was the German adaptation of the title Tammy, originally sung by Debbie Raynolds. As usual with Tempo, she had to share the single with a singer named Harry Graf, who sang the A-side. This process continued on numerous other Tempo records with Maureen René. Until 1960 René sang 21 singles with the Munich label. She recorded cover versions of well-known titles such as Rock Around the Clock (Original Bill Haley ), Melodie d'amour ( Edmundo Ros ) or Hula Hoop ( Angèle Durand ). Already in Wiesbaden she met the then well-known musician and composer Lutz Dietmar. He took the young singer under his wing and, together with his own orchestra, numerous single productions were created. After some time, the later famous saxophonist Max Greger became a member of the Lutz Dietmar Orchestra, to which he also lent his name after some time. During this time, however, Lutz Dietmar continued to write all the arrangements and continued to play the piano until he fell ill. Lutz Dietmar succumbed to cancer in 1959 at the age of only 35. Even before Dietmar's death, Greger made sure that he could take over the orchestra founded and led by Dietmar after his death and continue to run it on his own. This information was confirmed both by the musicians involved at the time and by members of the record company as well as by Rene himself. Rene and Dietmar were married and had a daughter. Sophia Rene later followed in her parents' footsteps and was very successful in show business both as a model and as a singer.
Through her intensive collaboration with Lutz Dietmar, the leading German record company Polydor soon became aware of the English singer. In 1960 she produced two singles with René, the first of which brought her a notable record success. With the title When Summer Comes , a German-language version of the international instrumental hit Theme from “A Summer Place” with Percy Faith , René made it into the top 50 hit rating of the German music magazine Musikmarkt in the summer of 1960 , where she within four weeks reached 49th place as the best rating, equal to the original. Polydor's second attempt to successfully place René with a cover version did not work because the title Sailors from Pyräus was also published with Lale Andersen and Caterina Valente , and the less well-known Maureen René, however , had no chance. After that, Polydor gave up further productions with her. It is not known how she contributed to the success of the Polydor title seaman in the United States. There the record company Kapp had taken over the German-language original with Lolita , but provided it with an English language sequence. This had been spoken by Maureen René. The cut version reached number five on the Hot 100 charts in the USA .
After a year off there was a new opportunity to be able to publish records again. Tempo boss Oskar Meissner had founded a new record company with the label Osca and offered Maureen René further record productions. This arrangement resulted in three singles in 1962, the first of which, titled Dankeschön und Auf Wiedersehn , once again led to a hit parade. In the music market René reached number 30 in February 1962. On her third and last single with Osca, René sang a duet with her daughter Sophia ( Mami, you, listen up ).
After the record deal with Osca had expired, René concentrated on concert appearances. When she got an offer for her own seven-month music show at the Tokyo Hilton Hotel, she left Germany. After the success of her show in Japan , the hotel chain gave her new contracts for Hong Kong , Korea and Hawaii . After another engagement in Puerto Rico , she settled in New York in 1971 . In addition to other singing appearances in the local nightclubs, she attended an acting school and appeared in a few plays and with a One Woman Show on Broadway . In 1992 she returned to her native England with her second husband, a former Hilton manager from Puerto Rico, and took up residence in Bournemouth , Dorset . Even after that she remained loyal to show business and worked, among other things, for the "International Singing Show" on cruise ships.
Vinyl singles
| From page | Catalog no. | published |
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| A: (Das Fitzett) / B: What can be more beautiful | 516 | 1956 |
| A: (Jenny Johnson) / B: Whatever Will Be | 517 | 1956 |
| As far as we are the stars / True Love | 532 | 1957 |
| Your love / B: (Jenny Johnson) | 536 | 1957 |
| A: (Belcantos) / B: Everyone needs someone | 555 | 1957 |
| Round and Round / B: (Frank Forster) | 562 | 1957 |
| Rock Around the Clock / B: (Jenny Johnson) | 587 | 1957 |
| Rock Around the Clock / B: (Frank Forster) | 589 | 1957 |
| A: (Jenny Johnson) / B: The white moon of Maratonga (& Harry Graf) | 596 | 1957 |
| Starry Night in May / B: (Erika Graf) | 599 | 1957 |
| Melodie d'amour / Io Ti Amo | 634 | 1957 |
| Addio Amigo / B: (Frank Forster) | 643 | 1958 |
| You are loved / B: (Lutz Dietmar) | 648 | 1958 |
| Tammy / B: (Lutz Dietmar) | 660 | 1958 |
| Hula Hoop / Young people need love | 685 | 1959 |
| Once happiness comes to me / that's why I only dream of you | 705 | 1959 |
| Who counts the years / B :( Margit Schumann) | 714 | 1959 |
| Haiti Cherie / B: (Margit Schumann) | 732 | 1960 |
| Somewhere and sometime / B: (Gerd Fitz) | 755 | 1960 |
| Starlight / B: (Charlotte Marian) | 825 | 1960 |
| Weites Land / B: (Erika Berg) | 841 | 1960 |
| Polydor | ||
| When summer comes / Just like back then | 24279 | 7/1960 |
| Sailors from Pyräus / yours, always yours | 24468 | 12/1960 |
| Osca | ||
| Look at me like that again / thank you and goodbye | 1001 | 1962 |
| The white tarverne by the sea / You only love once | 1006 | 1962 |
| Mommy, you, listen / sleep my darling | 1010 | 1962 |
literature
- Bernd Matheja: In memory , issue 61, Manfred and Marlene Günther self-published 1998.
- Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit balance sheet German chart singles 1956–1980. Taurus Press 1987, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 .
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| SURNAME | René, Maureen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pop singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southampton , England , UK |