From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #472 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, September 30 2008 Volume 12 : Number 472 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] test ignore ["Han Snijders" ] [AVALON] Ferry uncovered Answer Me (Mutterlein)Leila Negra ["Han Snijder] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:14:35 +0200 From: "Han Snijders" Subject: [AVALON] test ignore ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:26:09 +0200 From: "Han Snijders" Subject: [AVALON] Ferry uncovered Answer Me (Mutterlein)Leila Negra Hi All, I've had a life for a while, that explains I've been lurking for a few months on this list, But I decided to restart my uncovered serie This week "Answer Me" from the Taxi album. Interesting song, first recorded by a Black german singer by the name... Lela Negra. You're not surprissed if i'll tell you this an early fifties artist name. Her real name was Marie Nejar. from the internet... She was perhaps the first post war African-German to follow the footsteps of Josephine Baker, as a "media spectacle." She was born in 1930 in Germany and survived through luck and help by some well meaning persons the nationalsocialist genocidal German catastropy. She was discoverd in 1952/3 by the then young famous German entertainer Peter Alexander who performed a number one hit with her by the title "The sweetest fruits are only eaten by the biggest animals." Most other songs were less charming and conformed to the sterotype of Nejar being Black (such as the children song 12 little negroes). In the 1960s she disappeard from the stage and only recently, now aged 77 remerged with the announcement of an autobiography to be released in German in June or July 2007. THe original german song was dedicated to the writers mother on her 75 birthday in 1952 had the title Mutterlein. In the same year the song got a new gospel like lyric in englisch: Answer me, lord above. Obviously or proberly there was no answer, so the next year 1954 the song was recorded by Nat King Cole as Answer Me, My Love. That version became a huge hit and there for it was rerecorded in a German version as Glaube Mir performed by Rudi Schuricke. 4 different lyrics in two years. There was even a dutch version "Meisje Klein" Annie de Reuver &Heleentje van Capelle As far as I remember it was the NKC version that aunts of Ferry played, he told in an interview. Dylan covered it also but only in concert. you can listen or download the orgininal here: http://www.4shared.com/file/64833112/2c4bc2e8/Leila_Negra_-_Mutterlein.html?d irPwdVerified=bd113db5 cheers Han ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #472 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest