Tri-Ergon Photo-Electro-Records

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Tri-Ergon Photo-Electro-Records was a German music label based in Berlin , which existed from 1928 to 1932.

History of the label

The Tri-Ergon label was a division of the German company Tri-Ergon Musik AG , which in turn was a subcontractor of the Swiss Tri-Ergon Aktiengesellschaft (Tri-Ergon AG) based in Zurich, which had the patent for the Tri-Ergon sound film process since 1919 held. In order to make some money with their invention, the three developers Joseph Benedict Engl (1893–1942), Hans Vogt (1890–1979), and Joseph Massolle (1889–1957) founded the record label Tri-Ergon Photo-Electro Records in 1927 . The basic idea of ​​using their sound film process to record records was filed for a patent as early as 1924. The registered office of the Tri-Ergon Musik AG and the label was Berlin-Kreuzberg , Ritterstraße 46-47.

In Tri-Ergon appeared 1928-1932 shellac discs for the German, French, Swedish and Danish market. The label's productions included brass music (" Alte Kameraden " by Carl Woitschach , TE 1032), popular songs and hits, played by the Géza Komor dance orchestra ("When the white lilac is blooming again" (with Max Kuttner , Tri-Ergon TE 5410 ), "My brother makes the noises in the sound film" (with Kurt Mühlhardt , TE 307), "Lust'ge Jungs vom Waterkant", TE 5754), also by Franz Baumann (" I fell in love with a girl on the Rhine " , TE 5094), the Four Admirals ("I'm in Love Again"), Wilhelm Gombert (" Sonny Boy ", TE 5627), Engelbert Milde ("Hallo, Margot (You dear Lord)", TE 5483), Guido Gialdini , Sina Lenora (“ My sweetheart wants to go sailing with me on Sunday ”) and Vicky Werkmeister (“Voulez-vous, mon Papachen”), music from sound films (“ Once you say goodbye ”, TE 5890), light Classical music by Carl Jöken (“Mattinata v. Leoncavallo”, TE 9867), Laure Bergé (“Réveil de Brunhilde”), Hendrik Appels , (“Siegmund I call it” from Die Walküre , TE 5798) and Bruno Seidler-Winkler (Ouve door from " Mignon ", TE 1177), Franz Baumann ( Austin Egens " The Loreley (I dreamed of the Rhine tonight) ", TE 1060) or an arrangement of Eugen d'Albert's opera Tiefland (TE 1155),

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Furthermore, the label Volkstümliches published by Weiss Ferdl (“Before and after the wedding”, TE 5757), Robert Koppel (“Ober! Schnell one more round here”, TE 5421), Emil Svartström (“Savolaisten laulu”, TE 5587), from the choir of the Russian artist theater Zwetnoff's Arlekin ("Wolga ... Wolga", TE 5516), Gerhard Ebeler , or the instrumental trio Freundorfer ("G'sund san ma", TE 5478), Schrammelmusik ( Ralph Benatzky's "Ich knows a small hotel on the Wieden ", TE 2018), Christmas things by August Heinrich Bruinier , Paula Dehmel (" St. Niklas' Excerpt ", recitation by Hans Mühlhofer ) and humoristic things like Emil Meysel , Karl Zander and Reinhold Habisch , the told of his racing track experiences ("Berliner Rennbahn-Original 'Krücke'", TE 5896).

Numerous Tri-Ergon records did not contain any precise information about the musicians, such as "Polo Games" / "Sleeping Beauty Bride" (TE 287) or "Wedding procession in Liliput" / "The Heinzelmännchen" (TE 293), recorded by a salon orchestra (TE 287), " Pagan Love Song " (TE 5939) by a Hawaaian Novelty Orchestra or "Spinn, spinn" / "Greetings to the home" by an anonymous male sextet (TE 2072) or succinctly with the indication of singing and orchestra ("The Deceived", TE 226). Under the common pseudonym Tri-Ergon-Trio (or just Instrumental Trio ), the trio of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky , pianist Karol Szreter and violinist Max Rostal recorded for the label.

Under the pseudonym Harry Jackson , the band leader Géza Komor recorded other titles for Tri-Ergon ("What is going on?" (TE 5782), "I'm not a captain, I'm not a big animal ..." (TE 5779), "Ferdinand, you're so ungalant! ”all with the singer Karl Mühlhardt ); In addition, the label has published titles by jazz and dance bands such as Bernard Etté , Lud Gluskins Ambassadonians (" I Can't Give You Anything but Love "), Håkan von Eichwald , Herbert Glad , Mario Elki ("Gips-Bisp / Klosterglocken", TE 5471), Billy Bartholomew , as well as the Syd Kay's Fellows (including Werner Richard Heymann's song "A friend, a good friend", with Sigismund Petruschka (tp, arr), Willi Sasse (sop, bar) and Friedrich Hollaender ) and the New Yorker Dance orchestra ("It's a Million to One You're in Love", TE 5137).

Under the band name The Jazz Kings , a group of musicians from the Bernard Etté orchestra, organized by the Italian-American banjo and guitar player Tony Morello , took on a number of jazz tracks in the summer of 1927 (e.g. “Sunday”, TE 5058-A; “Birth Of The Blues ", TE 5060-B;" Crazy Words, Crazy Tune ", TE 5061-A;" Maple Leaf Rag ", TE 5064-B) at Tri-Ergon.

Tri-Ergon's sub-label was the Swedish label Star , which was active between 1930 and 1932; appeared on the label a. a. Recordings by Sven Asplund , the Dragspelskvintetten Karlssons Blå Gossar , by Håkan von Eichwalds Orkester, Percy Richard / Erik Janson and by Dietrichs Schrammel-Quartett. In the Colorit series , flexible and colored records in 25 cm (10 inch) format appeared. a. the waltz “ On the beautiful blue Danube ” (TE 3614), “ Beautiful Woman in the Moon ” (TE 3061) or Dominik Ertl's “ Hoch- und Deutschmeister-March ” (played by the Adolf Becker Orchestra, TE 3114).

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Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Tri-Ergon Photo-Electro-Record (Germany) / 1929
  2. ↑ The Tri-Ergon label
  3. ↑ Discographic information on Géza Komor's recordings for Tri-Ergon
  4. ↑ The French opera singer (soprano) Laure Bergé (1892-1961) appeared on German, French and Belgian stages during this time.
  5. ↑ Hendrik Appels (1886-1947) was a Dutch tenor who appeared at German opera houses such as the Bavarian State Opera . See BMLO
  6. ↑ arranged by Alfredo Cairati and played by the Berlin Concert Orchestra under the direction of OA Evans
  7. ↑ for example the number Der Steyrer Bua / Ein Abend am Traunsee , TE 222.
  8. ^ Terry King: Gregor Piatigorsky: The Life and Career of the Virtuoso Cellist. 2010. p. 285.
  9. ↑ actually Egon Kaiser
  10. ↑ A song by Benny Davis and Harry Akst
  11. ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz discography.
  12. ↑ on this cf. Rainer E. Lotz: Tony Morello. Published 1981 by Jazzfreund in Menden. Written in English (= Jazzfreund-Publication No. 14), 74 pp.
  13. ↑ cf. RE Lotz, Tri-Ergon Discography
  14. ↑ cf. Horst H. Lange: Jazz in Germany. The German Jazz Chronicle 1900-1960. Berlin, Colloquium-Verlag, 1966, p. 41
  15. ↑ Star at Discogs