Mood song
A mood song is a form of folk song that emerged in the 19th century and was originally sung at social gatherings of the petty bourgeoisie . Parts of the hit production and the carnival song are forms of the mood song that still occur today.
Characteristic
Mood songs can contain elements of traditional folk songs, but also contemporary dance music and were sung at petty bourgeois events such as excursions, festivals and taverns, etc. They often come as a waltz , polka , Rhinelander or march in front, where it always a catchy, easy to remember enabled melody have (so-called earwigs ) and thus are easily nachsingbar. The drinking song is a special form of the mood song . Another variant is the stupid hit with funny text. Occasionally these are parodies (joke versions) of well-known hits.
Well-known mood songs
- Adelheid (garden gnome march) (melody: Christian Bruhn , text: Hans Bradtke )
- Anneliese (melody: Hans-Arno Simon , text: Wolfgang Liebich)
- Chianti song (melody: Gerhard Winkler , text: Ralph Maria Siegel )
- The fisherwoman from Lake Constance (melody and text: Franz Winkler )
- You are the rose from the Wörthersee (melody: Hans Lang , text: Erich Meder )
- Eviva Espana (melody: Leo Caerts, text: Hans Bradtke)
- Fiesta Mexicana (melody: Ralph Siegel , text: Michael Holm )
- Don't you have a bride for me? (Melody and text: Heino Gaze )
- Kufsteinlied (melody and text: Karl Ganzer )
- You'd have to be twenty again (melody: Gerhard Jussenhoven , text: Kurt Feltz )
- Rosamunde (melody: Jaromír Vejvoda , text: Klaus S. Richter)
- Beautiful maid
- Such a day, as beautiful as today (melody: Lotar Olias , text: Walter Rothenburg )
- Drink, drink, drink brothers (melody and text: Wilhelm Lindemann )
- Tulips from Amsterdam (Melody: Ralf Arnie , Text: Ernst Bader )
- Viva Colonia ( Höhner )
- If the water in the Rhine were golden wine (melody: Werner Stamm , text: Heinz Böninghausen)
- Who should pay for that? (Melody: Jupp Schmitz , Text: Kurt Feltz)
- Matador (Jux-Version) (Artist: Fips Asmussen )
- I loved a girl (interpreter: Insterburg & Co. )
- Mein Gott, Walther (interpreter: Mike Krüger )
- The tub is full (interpreter: Dieter Hallervorden / Helga Feddersen )