Melody exclusive

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Melodie exclusive was the name of a legendary program that ran from 1971 to 1980 on the Austrian radio station Ö3 .

The program, designed by the author Alfred Komarek and spoken by Ingrid Gutschi and Meinrad Nell , was first half an hour, then one hour and was last broadcast on Sunday evenings from 10 p.m. The signature tune was first "Whew" ( Simon & Garfunkel ) then "Dark is the Night" ( Ry Cooder ). Her music program essentially included examples of the more demanding folk and folk rock music - which is otherwise rarely played on Ö3 : e.g. Joan Baez , Kris Kristofferson , Leonard Cohen , Gordon Lightfoot , Phillip Goodhand-Tait . Fabrizio De André's song “Andrea” was a typical example of the preferred musical style that was often played. Austrian groups like the Milestones and the Butterflies could also be heard. Interspersed in between were short, poetic, profound, melancholic, flirtatious and often a little suggestive texts by Komarek, the dialogical basic structure of which he had developed in the previous show "Entre Nous" from 1968 onwards. They first dealt with topics such as castles, banks, towers, beggars, robbers, then, after the changeover to one hour in 1975, “Stories from Alfred”, which showed the poetic alter ego of the author in all sorts of cheerful and sad entanglements.

Michael Forcher characterizes the style of these programs in the epilogue of the anthology "Spätlese" as follows: "Thoughts, words to continue spinning ..., to dream into, to crawl into" . In the 1970s and early 1980s, Alfred Komarek's cult program Melodie Exclusive “regularly gathered hundreds of thousands of people in front of the radio late in the evening” .

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From “For example fashion”: “When he met her, early in the morning, she was wearing her best floral dress, colorful and precious, the flowers closed. When he stayed with her, into the day, the flowers opened and he strayed a little between the thousand beautiful and the key of the sky. When he didn't want to go, late in the evening, she took the dress, put it with the other clothes and blossomed a little herself. "

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