Worried Men Skiffle Group
| Worried Men Skiffle Group | |
|---|---|
 Worried Men Skiffle Group, 2012 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Vienna , Austria |
| Genre (s) | Skiffle Blues Folk Austropop |
| founding | 1960 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.worried-men.at |
| Founding members | |
| Gerhard Richter | |
| Herbert Janata | |
| Last occupation | |
| Herbert "Hiero" Janata | |
| Gerhard "Doc" Richter | |
| Edi Fischer | |
| Günter Pini | |
bass |
Günther "Blesh" Dinold |
| former members | |
| Gotthard Fellerer | |
Worried Men Skiffle Group was a music group from 1960 to 2014 that was influential in the Viennese dialect wave of Austropop .
General information about the band
The group last consisted of Edi Fischer (* 1946 in Ellwangen an der Jagst, Germany), Günther Pini (* 1942 in Oberpullendorf , Burgenland ), Gerhard "Doc" Richter (born April 26, 1943 in Vienna ), Herbert "Hiero" Janata (* July 21, 1940 in Vienna) and Günther "Blesh" Dinold (* 1943 in Vienna). From 1967 to 1968 the musician Gotthard Fellerer was a member of the group.
In October 1960, Gerhard “Doc” Richter and Herbert “Hiero” Janata worked together to create a band that, ten years later, was to influence the Austrian music scene with its mixture of blues, folk, swinging jazz and Viennese humor.
They mainly played on simple objects such as a washboard or a wooden box called a "tub-bass" with a broomstick and a taut clothesline and on common instruments such as guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica and a kazoo . Their style of music is characterized by skifflening , a style in which each individual artist plays his music and a piece is improvised from it together.
In the last few decades, the band has not only used the tried and tested songs from the American folk, jazz and blues area, but also increasingly the sometimes time-critical and sometimes macabre-comic lyrics of Franz (i) Bilik, who died in 1983 in an accident . In 2005 the band celebrated their 45th birthday with a multi-day festival in Vienna's Jazzland . The group is considered to be a pioneer of Austro-pop, especially because of the texts that were kept in Viennese dialect from the 1970s onwards .
In 2010 the five musicians were awarded the Silver Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna .
In 2014, for health and personal reasons, the end of the band's stage appearances was announced.
history
The band's chronicle after decades
60s
- 1960 October - First public appearance in the youth club "Twen".
- 1962 June 10th - First time on TV in Willi Kralik's show "Young People of Today"
- 1966 -1969 - performances at the Vienna Jazz Club "Riverboat"
- 1966 October 2nd - Winner of the first Folk Festival on the Leopoldsberg near Vienna, where they also appeared for the first time in the tailcoat and cylinder clothing that has meanwhile become a trademark.
- 1966 December 7th - Studio recordings: Elisabeth, magazine advertisements, Take it slow and easy, Sportin'life Blues
- 1967 May 24th - Concert in Pressburg
- 1967 August 28th - Concert in Wilhering mediated by the then student functionary Wolfgang Schüssel.
- 1967 October 12th - Musicbox ö3 (1st in-house production) DJ Andreas (later Andre Heller) presents the first guests to the youth editorial team of the newly reformed Austrian radio.
- 1967 December 2nd - Gospel concert in the Neu Kagran church.
- 1967 December 18th - recording of "Das Sprungbrett" with Eva Maria Kaiser. Title: Take it slow and easy, Sportin'life Blues, Keep on the sunny side
- 1967 December 24th - TV main evening program "Christmas with Hans Joachim Kulenkampff" Participants apart from Kulenkampff: Dagmar Koller, Franz Muxeneder, Oskar Czerwenka, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Fritz Eckhardt and Worried Men Skiffle Group
- 1968 February 25th - 3.3. - One-week guest performance in Sicily
- 1968 April - Production of ö3 youth editorial team: "Glaubst i bin bleed"
- 1968 May 23 to 26 - Successful participation in the Czechoslovak Folk Festival Porta 68
- 1968 05/29 - The youth editorial team presented the later WMSG hit "Glaubst i bin bleed" to the Ö3 listeners for the first time.
- 1968 November concert with Conny Tex Hat. Recording for his ö3 program "Das Lied der Prärie"
- 1968 December 31st - Peter Rapp presents the WMSG for the first time in his music show "Spotlight"
- 1969 February 17th - TV show Archibald's hit parade with Alexis Korner, Beryl Bryden, Wiener Jazzgruppen, WMSG
- 1969 March 30th - ORF-Showchance 69, WMSG sing "Da most beautiful man in Vienna"
- 1969 June 13-16 - Czechoslovak Folk Festival Porta 69 (2nd place + audience award with TV show)
70s
The band's popularity rose rapidly in the 1970s
- February 21, 1970 - Start of "Glaubst i bin bleed" in the TOP 10 of the ö3 Music Box where the band production of the youth editorial team rose to number 1 on the following days.
- Mar. 17, 1970 - Peter Lodinsky's TV show "The 70s" Fritz Muliar, Otto Schenk, Die Würfel cabaret artists, Reinhard Mey, Andre Heller, WMSG (Glaubst i am bleed)
- April 10, 1970 - Glaubst i am bleed - Presentation of the very first single of the WMSG which has finally become a reality. A short time later this dialect song was also the very first to climb to the top of the Austrian pop charts and thus became the forefather of what is now known as "Austropop".
- 04-07 June 1970 - Participation in the Czechoslovak Folk Festival Porta 70
- June 25, 1970 - Concert with ORF recording host Peter Jost, Salzburg (folk songs from all over the world)
- July 16, 1970 - Single "Trottl kann mi hass'n" / "Wea ka Messa hod" comes out.
- October 11, 1970 - TV show "Kontakt" - Da Mensch is a Sau
- October 25, 1970 - TV show "Kontakt" - Da Mensch is a Sau
- October 21, 1970 - ORF broadcast "Horizonte" - Da Mensch is a Sau
- October 1970 - single "Da Mensch is a Sau" / "keep on the sunny side" comes out
- November 07, 1970 - Saturday TV Show "Wünsch dir was" WMSG - "Da Mensch is a Sau"
- February 1971 Lodinsky's "Flea Market Company" WMSG "Wea ka Messa hod"
- April 8th, 1971 The first long-playing record "The Damned Best Dance Band in Town" by WMSG goes on sale
- April 16, 1971 anniversary concert 10 years WMSG Great Hall of the Mozarteum Salzburg
- June 19th, 1971 concert in the Schloßbergbühne Kasematten Graz with Joe Zawinul & Weather Report, WMSG
- June 1971 single "Karl wie schaust du aus / Owa mi los
- 07/18 - 20.08.1972 Wiener Stadthalle, Austria Folklore Show with Samy Molcho
- 09/27/1973 ORF + ARD TV Show "Schaufenster" - "Karl how do you look out"
- 14.03.1973 ORF2 broadcast on "Courage" "Courage is good"
- June 29th, 1973 The WMSG song "Kauf a Zeitung" is the highlight of the matinee for the 125th birthday of the "Presse" in the theater in the Josefstadt. Paula Wessely, Attila Hörbiger, Gottfreid von Eine, Otto Schenk, Heinz Marecek, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Vilma Degischer, Leony Rysanek, Bruno Kreisky and many other well-wishers contributed to this great event together with the WMSG.
- July 1973 concert tour to Germany (Idstein, Wiesbaden)
- January 12, 1974 WMSG concert with reading by Andreas Okopenko in Berlin
- November 1974 The single "I wü oba i dra mi ned / Kauf a Zeitung" is released
- November 1974 The 2nd LP "Teppenförderung" is released
- 02/08/1975 WMSG at the 5th press carnival - editorial office in the press house.
- 05.04.1975 Meinrad Nell moderates a concert by WMSG & Peter Cornelius in Leoben-Donawitz
- November 1975 single "I bin a Weh" / Basilisk "appears
- February 1976 WMSG concert in the Olympic Village in Innsbruck during Franz Klammer's gold medal run
- May 1976 The single "Anschenan Gruaß vom Rock'n'Roll / You are there schensde Stern" featuring Jerry Ricks goes on sale
- 06.06.1976 WMSG in the TV spotlight
- December 18, 1976 The "Small Show" with WMSG is broadcast on FS1.
- December 31, 1976 WMSG in the TV spotlight
- 04/29/1978 Am Hof, main stage, concert, 1st Vienna City Festival
- 1978 "Hiking through the Vienna Woods / Lieutenant Colonel" appears
80s / 90s / 00s
- 06.09.1985 City Festival Linz Hauptplatz
- September 1985 ORF SHOW 25 years of WMSG
- 09/28/1985 ORF broadcast "We" - leisure profile
- Oct 1985 The single "I am there biggest / Give your heart to Stessa" goes on sale
- November 22, 1985 25 years of the WMSG Metropol Vienna
- 19.03.1987 ORF show "Spring in Frauenhofen"
- May 24th, 1987 Danube Island Festival
- 08/20/1988 Swinging Velden
- July 1995 CD "Ein Spass am Wörthersee" appears
- 06/24/2001 Danube Island Festival
- 05.10.2001 CD "Dazö ma kan Schmäh" Tivoli Center, 1100 Vienna Presentation
- October 19, 2001 Concert 40 years WMSG Cselley Mühle Oslip
- February 2003 WMSG goes Internet - We have our own homepage
- 09/21/2003 Games festival on the Schallaburg
- April 2004 CD "I bin a Weh" is released
- August 25 - 27, 2005 Festival in Jazzland Vienna - 45 years of WMSG
- January 15, 2008 Jazzland - Presentation of the DVD Double Feature
- 11/22/2008 Recordings on DVD and TV show "Best of Austrian Country Music" with Waterloo, Andy Lee Lang, Western Cowboys, New West, Big John, Country Buskers, The Buffaloes and many more
Discography
Singles
- 1970: Believe i am bled (Janata / Bayer)
- 1970: Da Mensch is a Sau (Janata)
- 1970: I am a Wunda (Achleitner / Janata)
- 1970: Fool, you can hate me (Lang / Werner)
- 1971: Karl how do you look (judge)
- 1974: I wü, oba i outside mi net (Janata)
- 1975: I am a Weh (Hausner)
- 1976 Toschenan Gruass from Rockn Roll (love)
- 1976 Lieutenant Colonel (Janata)
- 1980 I'm the tallest there
LPs
- 1970 The damned best dance band in town (Ariola 85 126)
- 1975 Steppe extraction (Atom 500.011)
- 1976 As the schendste man from Vienna (Ariola 88 772 EU)
CDs
- 1992 Fun at the Wörthersee (Koch CD 322 858)
- 2001 Dazö ma kaan Schmäh (CMT 2001TWM01)
- 2004 I am a woe (WM 80 184)
- 2007 POPTAKES (AMADEO 835 504-2)
- 2008 Live in Oberpullendorf (LC AT-MG4)
Excerpt from the list of songs
- I am a Wunda
- Believe i am bled (on a text by Konrad Bayer )
- Here's Maun from Vienna
- I am a woe
- Hiking through the Vienna Woods
- Heast you bisd bled
- Trottl, you can hate me
- Lieutenant colonel
- Life in Tulln is difficult
- I wü oba i outside mi ned
- Buy a newspaper
- I am the greatest there
- Hau di zuwe oides house
- I would like to have my Knedl back
- Magazine advertisements
- Man is a pig
- Toschenan Greetings from Rock'n'Roll
- Bluat with beer family vampire
- In the Office for Steps Promotion
- Elisabeth
- Dazö ma kan shameful
- Owa mi please leave in Ruah
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Announcement of the group
- ^ Gerhard Richter
- ^ Herbert Janata
- ↑ Honor for the Worried Men Skiffle Group . Press release of the City of Vienna, accessed on September 1, 2010.
- ↑ a b WMSG chronicle. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ WMSG singles. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .