Oh Catherine

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Oh Catherine! is the title of a one-step hit that Richard Fall composed in E flat major in 1924. The text for this was composed by the librettist Fritz Löhner under his stage name Beda. The song was published with the subtitle “Grüss dich Gott” by the Viennese Bohème-Verlag Berlin-Vienna.

background

In America it was released in 1924 as a walk-around one-step song or shimmy-foxtrot at Fred Wreede European hits pub. co in New York (Leo Feist Inc.). There it was used in the touring revues “Chauve-Souris” ( French: bat) by the Russian-Jewish theater impresario Nikita Balieff. Louis Wolfe Gilbert wrote an English text .

While the English lyrics turned the song into a sluggish hit, in which the sung woman is asked to become slimmer under threat of withdrawal of love, Beda lets a financially overburdened man complain about his too demanding partner in the German text is about to flee. Very far away - to Cochinchina .

Refrain

Oh Katharina, Oh Katharina!
I drink another Capuchin ,
Then I'll go to Cochinchina.
Hello god, hello god
No more cheering!
Oh Katharina, Oh Katharina!
Car and fur and valet,
I can't earn that much.
Hello god, hello god
Enough!

Lore

In Germany the title not only took the popular dance orchestras of Dajos Béla , Bernard Ette , Efim chess master and Marek Weber , but also the Jazz Orchestra of the black pianist and band leader Sam Wooding occasion of his Berlin-guest performance in 1925 and the Atlantic Jazz Band of Eric Borchard on gramophone record on. It was also available as an piano roll for electric pianos.

In 1924 the entertainer Lou Bandy sang a Dutch text version of “O Katharina” on record for Holland and Belgium.

In America, Ted Lewis and his jazz band recorded with Columbia and Nat Shilkret with his International Novelty Orchestra with Victor. Ben Bernie played him for Vocalion and Carl Fenton for Brunswick . In later years the song was also covered by Eddie Condon (1943) and Rick Fay's Hot 5 (1989).

On January 1, 1925, the comedian Charlie Cohan sang a Yiddish version with orchestral accompaniment for Victor on record.

The melody lasted a long time; In 1928 she was quoted by the Munich folk singer Weiß Ferdl with a text of his own in which he emphasized the alcohol ban in the USA. Despite their wealth, it turns the Americans into “poor planners” who cannot even buy a liter of beer.

Note edition

  • Oh Catherine! (Grüss dich Gott) Song and Onestep by Richard Fall, text by Beda. 3 ll. Wiener Bohème-Verlag Berlin-Vienna, F. Wreede, New York © 1924.
  • Oh, Katharina! : walk-around (one step) song (or shimmy fox-trot), lyric by L. Wolfe Gilbert; music by Richard Fall; ukulele acc. by May Singhi Breen. 1 score (5 pages); For voice and piano, with ukulele chord diagrams. E flat major [key]. Double version and "Chauve Souris" version. Published by New York, Leo Feist, © 1924.

Audio documents

German recordings

  • Oh Katharina (what's on the table again ...) Onestep (R. Fall) Orchestra Bernard Etté . Vox 01608 (Mat. 1802-A)
  • Oh Catherine. Onestep (Richard Fall) Bohème-Orchester with Refraingesang [= uncredited Robert Koppel ] Beka 32 341, aufgen. Berlin March 8, 1924
  • Oh Catherine. Onestep (Richard Fall) Edith Lorand Orchestra. Beka B.3374 (Matr. 32 293). March 28, 1924 Zwarg p. 290.
  • Oh Catherine. Onestep (Richard Fall) Dajos Béla Geigen-Primas, Odeon AA 50 056 (Matr.xxBo 8168)
  • Oh Catherine. Onestep (Richard Fall) Marek Weber . Parlophone P. 1695-I (Matr. Z 6790). March 29, 1924
  • Oh Catherine! Onestep by Richard Fall. Efim Schachmeister with his artist ensemble from the Mascotte Pavilion in Berlin. Record “Grammophon” 19 181 / B 60 362 (Matr. 531 az)
  • Oh Catherine. Onestep (Richard Fall) Eric Borchard's Atlantic Jazz Band. Record “Grammophon” 14 941 (Matr. 1701 ax), put on. Berlin July 1924
  • Oh Catherine. Onestep (Richard Fall) Sam Wooding and his orchestra. Vox 01882 (Matr. 2357-A). Berlin, June 1925

American recordings

  • O Katharina! (from Balieff's “Chauve-Souris”) (Richard Fall - L.Wolfe Gilbert) Billy Murray . Male vocal solo, with orchestra. Victor 18 628-A (Matr. B-32 227). March 19, 1925
  • O Katharina! (from Balieff's “Chauve-Souris”) (Richard Fall - L.Wolfe Gilbert) International Novelty Orchestra. Refrain: Arthur Hall. Victor 19 586-A (Matr. B-31 759). February 5, 1925
  • Oh Catherine. Onestep (Richard Fall) - Ted Lewis and his band. Columbia 295-D (Matr. 140 374). January 29, 1925
  • Oh Katharina, Fox Trot (Fall) - The Californiacs. Sunset Record 1061. 1925
  • Oh Katharina, Fox Trot (Fall) - Ben Bernie and his orchestra. Vocalion 14 979 (red label). 1925
  • Oh Katharina, Fox Trot from Balieff's "Chauve-Souris" (Gilbert Fall) - Carl Fenton and his orchestra. Brunswick 2835-A
  • Ampico Orchestrion Roll 205 871-E, played by Vincent Lopez .

literature

  • Library of Congress. Copyright Office: Catalog of Copyright Entries. Musical compositions, Part 3. Publisher: Library of Congress, Copyright Office, 1925, p. 256.
  • Horst H. Lange: Jazz in Germany. The German Jazz Chronicle 1900–1960. Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1966.
  • Rainer E. Lotz, HJP Bergmeier: Eric Borchard Story. Illustrated biography and discography. (= Jazzfreund-Publication. No. 35). Menden 1988. (english)
  • Peter Longerich (ed.): The First Republic: Documents on the history of the Weimar state. (= Piper Documentation. Volume 1429). Piper Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-492-11429-6 , p. 364.
  • Monika Portenlänger: Flirty girl and sophisticated vamp: the representation of women on cover illustrations and in hit texts from the 1920s and early 30s. Verlag Jonas, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89445-380-0 , p. 102, no. 65
  • Arthur A. Reblitz, Quentin David Bowers: Treasures of mechanical music. Vestal Press, 1981, ISBN 0-911572-20-1 .
  • Arnold Shaw: The Jazz Age. Popular Music in the 1920s. Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-19-536298-5 , pp. 113, 168.
  • Charles Davis Smith, Richard J. Howe: The Welte-Mignon: its music and musicians. Vestal Press for the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association, 1994, ISBN 1-879511-17-7 .
  • Manfred Weihermüller, Heinz Büttner: German National Discography. Discography of German Cabaret. Volume 6, Verlag B. Lotz, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-9805808-7-3 , p. 1597.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the preface begins “What is there on the table again? / So exclaims Mr. Imre Kisch indignantly. "
  2. ↑ title shown. at okr.ro
  3. ↑ cf. "The sheet music advertises O KATHARINA as an all-purpose song:" Walk-Around One-Step Song or Shimmy Fox-Trot, "which covers all the possibilities." at jazzlives.wordpress.com
  4. ↑ cf. en.wiki (English)
  5. ↑ the refrain demands little charm: “O Katharina, O Katharina, to keep my love you must be leaner”. to be found at jazzlives.wordpress.com , there also an image of the US sheet music title
  6. ↑ The name Cochinchina has been used rarely since the end of French colonial rule over Indochina in 1954 and is out of use today.
  7. ↑ cf. HL Long pp. 24–25. Wooding turns “O Katharina” into a Medley Fox Trot , in which German tunes from “Listen what comes from outside” to “I don't know what should it mean” to “O Tannebaum” and “Die Wacht am Rhein” are quoted and jazz-like are processed.
  8. ↑ cf. Reblitz-Bowers p. 150 and Smith-Howe p. 780
  9. ↑ Born as Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben in The Hague on April 19, 1890, died in Zandvoort on June 24, 1959. Popular singer and conférencier of the interwar period. See nl.wiki (Dutch)
  10. ^ O Katharina (case): Lou Bandy med orkest. Odeon catalogus no. 31979 (Matrijs nr. Da 1008-2), voor Belgie A 31 692, to be heard on youtube , the text in het Nederlands is also displayed here
  11. ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz Discography (online)
  12. ↑ He is the author of the song Levine with Zayn Flaying Mashin , the 1927 Atlantic crossing of Clarence Chamberlin and Chas. A. Levine celebrated, cf. gmu.edu . The American klezmer band Kapelye around Henry “Hank” Sapoznik (העניק סאַפאַזשניק) has recently revived it (album “Levine and His Flying Machine”, Shanachie Ent. Corp. 1987)
  13. ↑ No. 78 066, Matr. B-32492, take 2: cf. worldcat.org and ucsb.edu
  14. ↑ “Uamerikaner, Uamerikaner / Don't have a Löwenbräu, koan Paulaner / also no Pschorrbräu, Franziskaner / koan Spatenbräu, Hackerbräu / No more cheers! / Uamerikaner, Uamerikaner / what are you against our people / including your money for poor planners / puddle goddess, goddess goddess / end! ” - see. Grammophon 21 875 “My trip to America”, 1 u. Part 2, Matr. 841 br IV, 842 br IV - label shown. at ebay.de (accessed on May 11, 2016); also on Beka B.6815, Matr. 37 403, 37 404
  15. ↑ listen on YouTube
  16. ↑ listen on YouTube
  17. ↑ cf. Lotz-Bergmeier p. 16.
  18. ↑ listen on YouTube
  19. ↑ cf. DAHR at ucsb.edu , listen to it on YouTube
  20. ↑ cf. DAHR at ucsb.edu , to be heard on YouTube
  21. ↑ listen on YouTube
  22. ↑ listen on YouTube
  23. ↑ to be heard on YouTube , the English text is also reproduced here
  24. ↑ listen on YouTube , label shown at discogs.com
  25. ↑ listen on YouTube