Ralf Roberts

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The organ grinder of Notre Dame
  DE 51 10/01/1959 (8 weeks)

Ralf Roberts (* 1942 in Prague ) is a former German pop singer of Bohemian origin.

Life

Ralf Roberts, who was born in Prague and grew up in Budapest and Vienna , comes from an elegant, affluent Roma family who recognized and encouraged their offspring's natural talent at an early stage. After winning a children's singing competition in Vienna at the age of 13, his parents later made it possible for him to attend the conservatory . Immediately after graduating, he found a field of activity in a music revue that demanded new things from him, but prepared him for the start of his career as a solo artist. Because he was not only able to convince with his singing, but also shine with a self-confident appearance. He benefited from this when he contacted the hit producer Gerhard Mendelson , who was immediately taken with the routine-looking barely 17-year-old.

Then, in the last quarter of 1959, Polydor released three singles in quick succession, and two more singles in 1960 , which had been recorded with the Johannes Fehring orchestra, with the first, Der Leierkastenmann von Notre Dame , remaining the most successful. For the release of the second single Do you still have a cigarette, comrade , the young artist was sent on tour in tow with profitable colleagues like Peter Kraus and Ted Herold . The “Schlagerbummel” tour through Germany and Austria , on which the Max Greger orchestra provided the musical framework, was a major event in 1959, which was flanked by a special LP on which Roberts was represented with the current song.

After the eagerly pursued establishment in the hit segment was not expressed in countable success, Polydor terminated the cooperation. The ambitious Roberts, who had announced in a newspaper interview after the newcomer success: "I don't stop until I'm at the top," made a second attempt at the Adano label, where Jerry Peters took over the orchestral accompaniment. Neither with the "slow foxtrot " The forests are still silent , nor with the cover version of Szomorú Vasárnap by Rezső Seress ( Sad Sunday ), which has become an evergreen especially in the English version , the breakthrough came.

Discography

  • 1959: The Organ Grinder of Notre Dame / Don't Forget Your Homeland (Single)
  • 1959: Do you still have a cigarette, comrade / Marietta Violetta (your little picture) (single)
  • 1959: Do you still have a cigarette, comrade / Marietta Violetta / The organ grinder of Notre Dame / Don't forget your homeland ( EP )
  • 1959: The street has 1000 windows / Far is the sea (Single)
  • 1960: The Bells in the Homeland / From My Father's House (Single)
  • 1960: But You're Far / How Beautiful Home Is (Single)
  • 1962: The woods are still silent / love means trust (single)
  • 1962: Sad Sunday / Maria-Christina (single)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Roberts in the German charts
  2. ↑ a b Danny: Ralf Roberts. Not possible - only seventeen . In: Bild am Sonntag , [around October 25, 1959].
  3. ↑ WDR Schallplattenbar , accessed on June 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague