Oh, it smells good
| Oh, it smells good | |
|---|---|
| Radio Children's Choir Leipzig | |
| publication | 1970 |
| length | 2:17 |
| Genre (s) | Christmas carol |
| Author (s) | Christel Ulbrich |
Oh, it smells good is a German Christmas carol that was composed and written by Christel Ulbrich .
content
The song is about baking cookies in the run-up to Christmas. This describes how the dough for the cookies is stirred in. In each stanza the addition of an ingredient is named. The song makes no explicit reference to Christian content and was therefore often played in the media and at Christmas markets in the GDR .
history
The song was written around 1949. It was first published in 1957 under the title Christmas Bakery in the children's magazine Fröhlich sein und singen .
In 1970 the song was published in the version of the Rundfunk-Kinderchor Leipzig on the Christmas LP Soon now is Christmas time of the GDR label Eterna . It was also included in various music textbooks and song books.
literature
- Christa Holtei: The great family book of Christmas carols. Sauerländer, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7941-7629-8 , p. 66 f.
- Bernd Pachnicke: German folk songs. 280 selected lyrics. Peters, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-369-00024-5 , p. 239 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Text in Golyr ( Memento of 7 December 2010 at the Internet Archive )
- ^ Sieglinde Siedentop: Music lessons in the GDR: music pedagogical studies for upbringing and education in grades 1 to 4 (= Music Pedagogy Forum; Volume 33). Wißner, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-89639-188-7 , p. 110 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ a b Neues Deutschland, The big hit from cracking almonds , December 18, 2010
- ↑ Track list of the LP