Teddy Palmer

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first single (1958)

Teddy Palmer (* May 4, 1940 as Dieter Ullrich in Königsberg , East Prussia ; † January 14, 2014 ) is a former German-speaking pop singer who began to publish records in 1958.

Professional career

Teddy Palmer created his prerequisites as a future pop singer in Salzburg as a member of a mandolin orchestra and in the church choir. At the age of 14 he worked in a band as a singer and guitarist. Before he turned to music professionally, he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter and began to work for the Austrian Federal Railways .

After two attempts at talent competitions by the music editors at the broadcaster Salzburg and Bayerischer Rundfunk , Teddy Palmer received a contract for the production of three records with the German record company Telefunken through the mediation of radio presenter and hit writer Jo Balke alias Joachim Relin in 1958 . With the title Die Lilli with the sky-blue sweater on the A-side of his first single , with which his stage name Teddy Palmer also became public, in the fall of 1958 , he got into the German hit parade, where he rose to number 18. It was the first rock 'n' roll hit song with a purely German copyright . After the second single was unsuccessful, Teddy Palmer returned to the German charts in June 1959. The cover version of the song Over and Over , written by the American composer Bobby Day , came under the German title Too-Hoop in a duet with Werner Hass in the Top 20. In 1959, the contract with Telefunken expired and Teddy Palmer changed to Electrola . The first Electrola single released in October 1959 was not accepted by the audience. With his cover version of the second-placed title at the German Schlager Festival 1959 Blacky Jones (original with Rainer Bertram ) he came 42nd in the German Top 50 in February 1960. In May 1960, Teddy Palmer's last single was released with the title Lach 'nicht so und Barefoot . Don't laugh like that was a cover version of the Elvis Presley hit Stuck on You .

Why Teddy Palmer did not publish any more records after 1960 cannot be determined. In 1964 he was sentenced to eight months in prison for stolen goods. He then worked as a sales representative for Blendax . At a small Munich record company he recorded a single under his shortened pseudonym Ted Palmer in 1968 that was barely noticed by the public and featured the title Holidays in Switzerland . At the end of the 1960s he settled in Graz , where he became the regional representative for dishwashers. After getting married in 1973, he moved to Nuremberg and performed as a country singer on cruise ships. In 1984 and 1985, WBM released two more records, again under the name Ted Palmer.

Through the Nuremberg musician Fred Schulheiss, Palmer came to radio, where he presented country programs as a presenter. First he worked for the Austrian broadcaster Radio Uno, then in Fürth for the broadcasters Radio F and Radio 5. He later moved to Erlangen , where he became editor-in-chief at Franken Fernsehen .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Blacky Jones
  DE 42 01/01/1960 (8 weeks)
  • Lilli with the sky-blue sweater / My Baby, you have free today, Telefunken 55091, 10/1958
  • I'm standing at your door / It was in Yokohama; Telefunken 55123, 3/1959
  • Too-Hoop / Babsy (with Werner Hass); Telefunken 55138, 5/1959
  • She was just sixteen / Angel of Love; Electrola 21335, 10/1959
  • Blacky Jones / Jenny Joe; Electrola 21365, 1/1960
  • Don't laugh like that / barefoot; Electrola 21494, 5/1960
  • When you sleep / sorry, wrongly chosen; WBM 117012, 1984 (as Ted Palmer)
  • Love, that means you and I / Nazdarovye; WBM 887788, 1985 (as Ted Palmer)

literature

  • Manfred and Marlene Günther: memory - magazine for friends of German oldies , issue 56, 1996
  • Angelika and Lothar Binding: The large binding single catalog , self-published 1994, p. 507
  • Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit balance sheet German chart singles 1956–1980. Taurus Press 1987, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 .

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, teddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ullrich, Dieter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2014