My heart is a jazz band (song)

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My heart is a jazz band is the title of a Foxtrot song by Willy Engel-Berger , for which Fritz Löhner wrote the text under his stage name “Beda”. It was published in 1926 by the Viennese Bohème-Verlag Berlin-Vienna and by Edition Bristol AG Vienna-Leipzig-Berlin.

background

The song was first published in 1927 in the Revue Chauffeur, in the Apollo! used in Vienna and then gave the title to the feature film Mein Herz is a jazz band , which Friedrich Zelnik shot and produced in his company EfZet-Film in 1928.

The text reflects the imagery that Central European listeners saw around 1928 with the term jazz : “the” [sic] ukulele , saxophones and fat, laughing negroes expressing joie de vivre and vitality.

The hit was soon popular in Germany and Austria, where it was recorded and distributed on gramophone records by well-known performers. In Austria, the two piano duetists Lilly and Emmy Schwarz, who accompanied themselves on the double grand piano, sang it for Odeon on record; In addition, the popular Viennese jazz band of Charles Gaudriot recorded the title there , to which the duetists Bauer and Reichmann sang the refrain. Tenor Jacques Rotter sang the song with orchestral accompaniment on the Austrian HMV brand “Gramola” ; the Dol Dauber jazz, symphony and dance orchestra also performed it as a dance piece on HMV and the Charleston Serenaders on the Columbia label . In Germany, Efim Schachmeister and his jazz symphony orchestra made an instrumental recording of the foxtrot with the “Grammophon”; The popular chorus singer Luigi Bernauer recorded it for Homocord with the accompaniment of the Homocord Orchestra.

Refrain

My heart is a jazz band.
No jazz band plays so well.
Dürü dürü… the ukulele, ukulele,
and the saxophone, the saxophone.
My heart is a jazz band.
She plays to be serious and joke,
And when a fat negro sings and laughs:
Ua-hahah, my baby
Ua-hahah, my baby
Then my heart laughs too.

Sheet music editions

  • "My heart is a jazz band". Song and Foxtrot. Text by Bede. Music by Willy Engel-Berger. Wiener Bohème-Verlag Berlin-Vienna a. Edition Bristol AG Vienna-Leipzig-Berlin 1926.
  • Willy Engel-Berger: My heart is a jazz band. Singing and piano. BMG UFA Musikverlage, publisher number: UFA14700.

Audio documents

  • My heart is a jazz band. Foxtrot from the revue “Chauffeur ins Apollo!” (Willy Engel-Berger) Charles Gaudriot Jazz, Moulin Rouge Vienna, vocals: Bauer & Reichmann. Odeon A 186.108 (Matr. Ve 1368), apply. Vienna, February 1928.
  • My heart is a jazz band - Foxtrot (Engel-Berger) Dol Dauber Jazz Symphony a Tanečni Orchestr. Austrian HMV Cat.No. AM 1224 (Matr. BK 2880-1). Vienna, April 14, 1928
  • My heart is a jazz band. Foxtrot (Engel-Berger, text by Beda) Jacques Rotter with orchestra. Austrian HMV Cat.No. AM 1253 (Matr. BK 2993-2). Vienna, May 3, 1928
  • My heart is a jazz band. Foxtrot (Engel-Berger, text by Beda) Lilly and Emmy Schwarz, vocals on the double wing (Bechstein). Odeon order no. O-2483 a / A 45 512. Die: Be 6914, attach. circa June 1928
  • My heart is a jazz band. Foxtrot (Engel-Berger) The Charleston Serenaders. Austrian Columbia 14 067 (Mat. WA 7047)
  • My heart is a jazz band. Foxtrot (Engel-Berger - Beda) Efim Schachmeister with his jazz symphony orchestra. Grammophon 21 227 / B 41 985 (Matr. 942 ½ bd), attached. October 1928
  • My heart is a jazz band. Foxtrot (Engel-Berger - Beda) homocord orchestra with refraing singing: Luigi Bernauer . Homocord 4-2901 (Matr. M 20 859), apply. December 7, 1928

literature

  • Andreas Bönner: Between imitation and independence. Jazz in the Weimar Republic. Verlag epubli, 2011. ISBN 978-3-8442-0150-5 , length 112 pages
  • Wolfgang Hirschenberger: Discography of Austrian Popular Music. Dance, jazz and light music recordings 1900–1958, ed. v. W. Hirschberger u. H.Pames 2013, PDF on line
  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Göttingen, self-published, 1991 .; Edition: first edition (1991), large octave hardcover - unpag. (On Luigi Bernauer)
  • Rainer E. Lotz, Axel Weggen: Deutsche National-Discographie: Discography of the Judaica recordings, volume 1. Bonn, Verlag Birgit Lotz, 2006, length 582 pages (here p. 92 on Dol Dauber)
  • Heribert Schröder: Dance and popular music in Germany 1918–1933. Publishing house for systematic musicology GmbH Bonn 1990 (= volume 58 of the Orpheus series of publications on basic issues of music, edited by M. Vogel)
  • Klaus Schulz: Black Bottom in the Weihburg Bar. Syncopated Orchestra, Arthur Briggs and the Chocolate Kiddies in Vienna in the 20s. In: Fox auf 78, Ed. Klaus Krüger, Dietramszell, Summer 2001, pp. 4-14
  • Manfred Weihermüller (Ed.): German National Discography: Discography of German Cabaret , Volume 5. Bonn, Verlag B. Lotz, 1998, ISBN 978-3-9805808-1-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sheet music from the collection "Musikmeister" Hamburg. at grammophon-platten.de , posted on Sa Mar 14 2015, 22:02
  2. ↑ See inscription on the label Odeon A 186.108 (Matr. Ve 1368), recorded Vienna, February 1928; that was a revue by Leo Morrissou, which was performed in May 1927 in the Etablissement Apollo ( Apollotheater in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna ) in Vienna. In it worked u. a. Willi Forst (as "Anton") and Gisa Kolbe (as "Lina") with, cf. Photo from Atelier Willinger, Vienna at Theatermuseum, Vienna ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Inv. No. FS_PA64227al; the one-step song "In der Bar zum Krokodil", which was also written by Engel-Berger and Beda, was also used for the first time in it, which later became popular thanks to the Comedian Harmonists . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bilddatenbank.khm.at
  3. ↑ On the film cf. My heart is a jazz band in the Internet Movie Database (English) and filmportal.de
  4. ↑ Popular as an accompanying instrument for singers in the USA ("Ukulele Ike" Cliff Edwards and others), but probably unusual as a jazz instrument, one would rather expect the banjo . Confusion?
  5. ↑ it was first the drums, soon the saxophone became a symbolic instrument for jazz and America, cf. Bönner p. 27, note 132 and Schröder p. 129 f.
  6. ↑ the Polish [?] Laughter artist Paul Wasciewicz recorded in a recording (order no .: 5083, mat. 350 B) at “Vox” in 1926 how he imagined such a “Negro laugh”, cf. youtube.com ; see. also Muepu Muamba, “Laughing is a serious matter”, article from the magazine epd / Entwicklungspolitik 20/2003 at dialog-international.org , October 04. 2009
  7. ↑ On these cf. Article by user hortig78rpm from Wed Jun 06 2012, 12:43 at grammophon-platten.de and Weihermüller, p. 1291
  8. ↑ a photo of the band from April 1931 at grammophon-platten.de
  9. ↑ on this conductor cf. Ulrich Pfahler in Musikerbiographien , March 31, 2014, and Chris Johnstone, Dol Dauber and his inter-war dance and jazz band, June 29, 2014 at radio.cz/en (English)
  10. ↑ on this chapel cf. user Charleston196, April 27, 2015 at schellackender
  11. ↑ Lilly and Emmy Schwarz even sing the discriminating “nigger” at this point, but with “thicker” it makes a nice inner rhyme, cf. Odeon O-2483 a
  12. ↑ to listen on youtube , cf. Hirschenberger p. 90
  13. ↑ cf. Hirschenberger p. 37
  14. ↑ cf. Hirschenberger p. 229
  15. ↑ listen on youtube
  16. ↑ cf. Hirschenberger p. 26
  17. ↑ listen on youtube
  18. ↑ listen on youtube