Christmas with the family
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| Studio album by Frank Schöbel & Aurora Lacasa | ||||
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1985 |
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| Label (s) | VEB German records | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
20th |
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running time |
41 min 38 s |
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Volkmar Andrä |
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Christmas in the Family is a music album that GDR hit singer Frank Schöbel and his then partner Aurora Lacasa released in 1985 with their children Dominique and Odette. On October 10, 1994, the album, now also on CD, was released again.
Television broadcast
A television program of the same name was created for the record, which was broadcast on GDR television on December 24, 1985 . After the show's great success, other episodes were created in later years, as well as the CD Merry Christmas in Family in 1994 . Until 2019, Frank Schöbel hosted the program Merry Christmas with Frank on MDR television, which was broadcast on Christmas Eve .
The television broadcast from 1985 and excerpts from the following broadcasts from 1992 to 1995 appeared on DVD on November 2, 2007 under the title “The best of Christmas in the family”.
successes
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Christmas with the family is considered the best-selling Amiga sound carrier. A total of 1.4 million copies were sold by 2002. In 1988 the interpreters received the " Golden Amiga " award .
Track list
Interpretations of classic Christmas carols alternate with new compositions.
| # | title | Music / lyrics | Interpreter | play permanently |
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| 1. | Christmas music | Ulrich Mann , using well-known Christmas carols | Instrumental group Ulrich Mann | 2:15 |
| 2. | tomorrow Santa Claus is Coming | based on the French folk song Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben | Odette and Dominique | 0:48 |
| 3. | Ring, bell, ring | Karl Enslin | Frank Schöbel, Odette and Dominique | 1:12 |
| 4th | Let it snow | Eduard Ebel | Aurora Lacasa, Frank Schöbel | 2:03 |
| 5. | Hey, you - Santa Claus | Frank Schöbel - Jochen Petersdorf | Odette and Dominique | 2:54 |
| 6th | We have a Christmas tree | Frank Schöbel - Jochen Petersdorf | Frank Schöbel, Odette and Dominique | 2:54 |
| 7th | Snowflake whitedress | Folk tune - after Hedwig Haferkorn | Odette and Dominique | 1:02 |
| 8th. | Tomorrow, children, there will be something | Carl Gottlieb Hering - Karl Friedrich Splittegarb | Frank Schöbel, Aurora Lacasa, Odette and Dominique | 1:18 |
| 9. | Good evening, good evening | Folk song from Carinthia - 2nd and 3rd stanza: Ilse Naumilkat | Odette and Dominique | 1:37 |
| 10. | Dear mum | Frank Schöbel - Frank Schöbel, Odette and Dominique | Odette and Dominique | 2:28 |
| 11. | Christmas with the family | Frank Schöbel - Gisela Steineckert | Frank Schöbel, Aurora Lacasa, Odette and Dominique | 2:40 |
| 12. | silent Night | Franz Gruber - Josef Mohr | Frank Schöbel | 2:55 |
| 13. | Sweeter the bells never sound | Folk tune from Thuringia around 1850 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger | Frank Schöbel, Aurora Lacasa | 2:34 |
| 14th | Still, still, still | Folk tune from Salzburg | Aurora Lacasa | 1:40 |
| 15th | The lights are on on the Christmas tree | Folksong 1866 - Hermann Kletke | Aurora Lacasa, Frank Schöbel | 0:58 |
| 16. | Merry Christmas everywhere | after an English folk song | Odette and Dominique, Frank Schöbel, Aurora Lacasa | 1:10 |
| 17th | Suzani ( from heaven high, O angel comes ) | Folk tune from the 17th century | Aurora Lacasa | 2:05 |
| 18th | A rose has sprung up | Sacred folk song before 1600 | Frank Schöbel | 2:20 |
| 19th | Maria | Frank Schöbel - Gisela Steineckert | Aurora Lacasa | 3:43 |
| 20th | O you happy | Sicilian folk tune - Johannes Daniel Falk , JG Holzschuher | Aurora Lacasa, Frank Schöbel | 2:47 |
Remarkable
- Various new editions of the CD were released, which differed from one another in the title list and in the cover artwork.
- The pop band Virginia Now! parodies the cover of Christmas in Family on their 2003 EP Christmas in Berlin .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Chart positions Germany
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk , October 3, 2007
- ↑ musik-base.de (archive version)