Sven Jenssen

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Sven Jenssen (2nd from right) handing over a long-playing record "Songs and Shanties for the 1972 Olympics " to Gerhard Stoltenberg

Sven Jenssen (born April 21, 1934 in Kiel ) is a German pop singer.

Career

In 1963, in a duet with Peter Alexander , he published the single A Lederhose Needs No Creases . In 1965 he took part in the Schlager Festival in Sopot , where he sang A Little Love Journey to Wonderland .

He played the role of a pop singer in 1966 in the children's TV series Der Hase Caesar (episode: Caesar becomes a pop singer ).

Another single was Amigo, That's Life , which was released in 1967. Jenssen had other publications. His German-language version of the melody of fate from the film Love Story also appeared on various samplers . He also made a name for himself as a shanty interpreter, for example at the Hamburg Harbor Concert . In 1969 Jenssen had one and in 1971 two live appearances in the ZDF hit parade and one in the program Die Drehscheibe des ZDF. He took part in the 1972 German preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest with the title Grenzlos . He also made guest appearances in Dresden with Kurt Edelhagen's orchestra .

In 2014, at the age of 80, he told his life story on the talk show "Lass mal Schnacken! Episode 35: Sven Jenssen".

album

  • Shanties with Sven Jenssen

Singles

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Amigo, that's life
  AT 19th 11/15/1967 (4 weeks)
  • 1962 Contessa / Now the nice years are coming
  • 1963 Lederhose don't need creases (duet with Peter Alexander) / Oh, Josefine
  • 1964 At most a million / The green hell
  • 1966 Calypso Beat / I'm packing my suitcase
  • 1966 Jump the line / I'm a wanderer
  • 1967 Amigo, that's life (German version of Four Kinds Of Lonely by Lee Hazlewood ) / Forgetting is all that was
  • 1970 Stop knocking (German version of I Hear You Knockin (1955) by Smiley Lewis ) / It doesn't always have to be spring
  • 1971 I'm thinking of you / Domm-Diri-Domm
  • 1971 Schicksalsmelodie (German version of the hit Where Do I Begin? From the film Love Story , composed by Francis Lai ) / Susi
  • 1972 Say yes to me / Mona Lisa

CD

  • Die Mädchen von Paris ( Bear Family Records ) (The title song is the German version of The Girls In Paris (1967) by Lee Hazlewood)

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Sikorski magazine 01/08  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sikorski.de  
  2. ↑ WDR contribution September 23, 2006 , record bar
  3. ↑ Let's have a chat! Episode 35: Sven Jenssen (broadcast in the Open Channel Kiel , on youtube)
  4. ↑ http://www.lastfm.de/music/Sven+Jenssen/Shanties+Mit+Sven+Jenssen lastfm.de: Shanties With Sven Jenssen
  5. ↑ Chart sources: AT
  6. ↑ a b Cover info Sven Jenssen
  7. ↑ Sven Jenssen Show and Chanson
  8. ↑ AOL Music Sven Jenssen: The girl from Paris  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / music.aol.com  

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Jenssen, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel