Tulips from Amsterdam (song)
Tulips from Amsterdam is a waltz-style song from 1956 by the German composer Ralf Arnie .
Emergence
The text comes from Klaus Günter Neumann and the text writer Ernst Bader . The German actor and interpreter Neumann wrote the song in 1953 after a performance in the Tuschinski Theater in Amsterdam after visiting the tulip fields in Keukenhof . Shortly afterwards he wrote the first verses of the song, but his editor was not very impressed and so it was initially not used. In 1956 the songwriter Ernst Bader noticed the text and rewrote it. He asked the composer Dieter Rasch (who worked under the pseudonym Ralf Arnie) and he set the song to music, inspired by the "Waltz of Flowers" from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite . Originally this first version was intended for the pop singer Gerhard Wendland , but the first recording was made in 1956 in both the German and Dutch version ( Tulpen uit Amsterdam ) by the Belgian singer Jean Walter . The text of the Dutch version comes from Jos Dams and Leo Camps. The version became a hit in Europe, in 1957 there was an English version by Gene Martyn, sung by the English entertainer Max Bygraves .
Spread and interpretations
The song has been interpreted several times, one of the best known versions is by Mieke Telkamp from 1959. In 1974 there was a version by Roy Black and the Fischer Choirs . In 1970 the Dutch entertainer Rudi Carrell and the child star Heintje sang a parodic version of the song, which addresses the large number of entertainers from the Netherlands who are active in Germany (“Nulpen from Amsterdam”). The song was heard in the Munich Allianz Arena when the Dutch soccer player Arjen Robben scored a goal for Bayern Munich .
In the Dutch version, the order of the tulip colors is reversed for reasons of rhyme. German: "A thousand red, a thousand yellow ...", Dutch: Duizend gel, duizend rooie ...
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of works: Neumann, Klaus Günter
- ↑ The Originals ( Memento des Originals from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 17, 2016.
