Beautiful woman in the moon

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Schöne Frau im Mond is the title of a slow waltz that Wilhelm Gabriel wrote under his stage name Jerry Wiga in 1929 for the Fritz Lang silent film Woman in the Moon . Charles Amberg and the music publisher Armin Robinson wrote the text .

The phrase “about the film”, as it says on the record labels, suggests that the composition was only presented after the film was released and was not part of the illustration music that Willy Schmidt-Gentner had written.

It was published by Alrobi Berlin in 1929. Several recordings by well-known bands exist.

Refrain

Beautiful woman in the moon!
Do you only live in the moon
Or do you come to me at night in dreams,
only in dreams,
very discreetly in secret?
You beautiful woman in the moon,
descend from the moon!
Just one kiss from you and I am royally rewarded,
you beautiful woman in the moon.

Sheet music editions

  • Beautiful woman in the moon. English Waltz on the Fritz Lang film "Woman in the Moon". Music: Jerry Wiga, text: Armin Robinson, Charles Amberg; Piano arr.Nico Dostal. Alrobi Musikverlag GmbH. Berlin, c1929.
  • Jerry Wiga: Beautiful woman in the moon. Instrumentation: salon orchestra. UFA Musikverlag order no .: UFA12706

Audio documents

  • Beautiful woman in the moon. English Waltz (Jerry Wiga, text: Armin Robinson, Charles Amberg) for the film “The Woman in the Moon”. Marek Weber and his orchestra, with refrain singing. Electrola EG1614 (BNR 821-2), recorded in the Beethoven Hall in Berlin.
  • Beautiful woman in the moon. English Waltz (J. Wiga, A. Robinson, Ch. Amberg) on ​​the film "Die Frau im Mond". Fred Bird Rhythmicans, vocals Luigi Bernauer . Homocord 4-3370, mat. No. H 62 177 / Made in Germany 1930
  • Beautiful woman in the moon. English Waltz (H. Wiga, A. Robinson, Ch. Amberg) Géza Komor dance orchestra with vocals: Kurt Mühlhardt . Colorit (flexible plate) from Tri-Ergon 3061 (Matr. 03213) Febr. 1930
  • Beautiful woman in the moon. English Waltz (H. Wiga, A. Robinson, Ch. Amberg) dance orchestra Harry Jackson with vocals: Kurt Mühlhardt . Tri-Ergon TE5780 (Mat. 03213-m2) Feb. 1930
  • The title also appears in the hit potpourri "Hallo 1930" by Walter Borchert : Paul Godwin 's Jazz Symphoniker with Refraingesang, on gramophone (30 cm) No. 27 166 / B 61 556 (Matr. 377 and 378 ½ BS) mech . copyr. Berlin 1930

literature

  • Aitam Bar Sagi: The Film Music Museum. Silent Films' Songs on 78RPM Records , online at fimumu; copyright 2013
  • Rudolf Freund: Woman in the Moon . In Günther Dahlke, Günter Karl (ed.): German feature films from the beginning to 1933. A film guide. 2nd Edition. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89487-009-5 , here p. 193 f.
  • Gero Gandert: The film of the Weimar Republic: 1929 , illustrated edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-11-011183-7 , here p. 201 to no. 56.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First performance October 15, 1929, Berlin, Ufa-Palast am Zoo , cf. filmportal.de
  2. ^ Armin Robinson in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM), as of March 6, 2015
  3. ↑ he wrote the second theme song "for the film Die Frau im Mond ", Heimlich sings love for us , also an English Waltz (W.Schmidt-Gentner - F.Rotter), which was not allowed to achieve the same success, although Fritz Rotter also provided him with a text. Recording: Fred Bird Rhythmicans, vocals Luigi Bernauer . Homocord 4-3370, mat. No. H 62 176 / Made in Germany 1930 - audio sample (20 sec.) With Aitam Bar-Sagi
  4. ↑ cf. Aitam Bar Sagi Silent Films' Songs on 78RPM Records
  5. ↑ Video on YouTube
  6. ↑ Video on YouTube