The Four Admirals

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The Four Admirals , also Die Admirals , Four Admirals or Three Admirals , were a musical group that came from the United States. It consisted of the four members Norman Bartlett, Blake Dorn, Eddie Lee and Joe Lee and performed in Germany, particularly in Berlin, from 1928 to 1932.

Act

The Four Admirals recorded No foolin ' on January 28, 1927 at the Victor record label in Camden . Possibly the composition changed because in March Jack Armstrong, Henry Durrett and Jack Keyes will be named alongside Norman Bartlett as members for the film The Admirals “A Naval Quartet” . In May 1927 they recorded the songs Voom Voom and I'll always remember you at Columbia Records in New York . However, these recordings were not published. They were in London at the end of 1927, where they had further test recordings with Edison Bell between October 1927 and June 1928. The first publication with the titles Voom Voom , Hello Swanee and Gonna get a girl appeared in 1928 in Germany, among others, where it was added to Berlin with the title I'm in love again . The Admirals were based in Germany for four years and were mostly hired for studio recordings or film. They received a record deal with the Tri-Ergon company and could be seen in short musical films by the Lignose company . Recordings were made for the Deutsche Grammophon- Gesellschaft with the orchestra Ben Berlin and Paul Godwin , vocal pieces with the orchestra of Julian Fuhs , or recordings with Dajos Béla , Paul Abraham or Sam Baskini , as well as with Ilja Livschakoff and his orchestra. Among other things, the song If Elisabeth didn't have such beautiful legs became known in different versions with Leo Monosson and other titles. They were also to be seen on some Berlin stages, among others as a backing band for the music revue It is in the air . You could be heard at the world premiere of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in Leipzig together with Lotte Lenya at Alabama Song as "Three Admirals". They left Germany again in mid-1932, initially going back to London, where the first recordings were made in early September 1932 and finally returned to the United States. There they took part in the 1935 musical Anything Goes by Cole Porter . Heard in the tracks I Get A Kick Out Of You and All Through The Night / Blow, Gabriel, Blow .

They also took part in a short German sound film in 1928. There were more recordings. You were also involved in the recording of the Great Potpourri from the operetta "The Flower of Hawai".

Participation (selection)

  • May 2, 1927 Voom voom Singing with ukulele and piano accompaniment
  • In the summer of 1927 The Ambassadeurs Show 1927 (Edmund Sayag - Jazz Age Club), as a musician, singer and dancer
  • 1928/1929 My Love Parade / Dream Lover from the film Liebesparade (The Love Parade) , here as Three Admirals , Eddie Lee and Joe Lee (tenor), Noman Bartlett (baritone) with Ben Berlin and orchestra
  • 1930 Wochenend Und Sonnenschein ( Happy Days Are Here Again ) on the album Die goldene Aera deutscher Tanzorchester (with Leo Frank and Dajos Béla and his dance orchestra)
  • 1930 When Elisabeth ... from the comedy Die Wunder-Bar (Paul Godwin, Robert Katscher )
  • November 14 and December 1, 1930: Viktoria and her hussar ( Emmerich Kálmán , Paul Abraham) potpourri
  • September 30, 1931: The Flower of Hawaii (Paul Abraham) - Big Potpourri.
  • 1931 I have an old aunt from the film Die Privatsekretärin (Paul Abraham, singing with Max Mensing )
  • 1935 Blow, Gabriel, Blow from the musical Anything Goes (with Jeanne Aubert )

literature

  • JP Wearing: 35,221 Anything Goes . In: The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2014, ISBN 978-0-8108-9304-7 , pp. 450 ( books.google.de - excerpt).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roy Liebman: Vitaphone Films: A Catalog of the Features and Shorts . McFarland, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4766-0936-2 , pp. 18-19 , Release 477: March 1927, bottom right ( books.google.de ).
  2. ^ The Three Admirals. BBC, accessed January 14, 2019 (UK English).
  3. ↑ Joseph Westner: The Admirals - gramophone and shellac 78rpm portal. grammophon-platten.de, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  4. ^ Cole Porter / Anything Goes (1935 London Production). sondheimguide.com, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Columbia matrix W144078. Voom voom / Four Admirals - Discography of American Historical Recordings. adp.library.ucsb.edu, accessed January 14, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Ambassadeurs Show 1927. In: jazzageclub.com. 2010, Retrieved January 14, 2019 (American English).
  7. ^ Ben Berlin And His Orchestra. With The Three Admirals - My Love Parade / Dream Lover. Discogs, accessed January 14, 2019 .
  8. ^ A b Search Results for "Four Admirals". charm.rhul.ac.uk, accessed January 14, 2019 .