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avalon-digest        Wednesday, October 1 2008        Volume 12 : Number 473



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  Re: [AVALON] Ferry uncovered  Answer Me (Mutterlein)Leila Negra  ["Jimbo" ]

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:34:38 +0200
From: "Jimbo" <jimbo@zeelandnet.nl>
Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry uncovered  Answer Me (Mutterlein)Leila Negra

Hi Han,

Can't seem to play the song, because it has some protection ....

Jimbo.







- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Han Snijders" <snijders.geest@hetnet.nl>
To: <avalon@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 10:26 PM
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
>
>
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