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Dear soldiers, dear listeners in the home country, dear friends beyond the borders: the fanfare is summoning the request Concert for the Armed Forces..!” So began Heinz Goedecke’s introduction to the most popular show ever broadcast on Greater German radio during World War Two. From Waffen-SS grenadiers in Russian to Luftwaffe ground-crews in Northern France, Infantry units of the Afrikakorps in the Western Desert to Marine coastal artillery batteries on the Channel Islands, Fallschirmjäger in Crete to Kriegsmarine ship’s company on the high seas, this was their programme and every Sunday evening military life would come to a halt as young soldiers were briefly reunited with their homeland & loved ones via the popular music of the Third Reich, from stirring marches to sentimental ballads, from comic tunes to Nazi-inspired soldier songs. Now this unique show, performed by a stunning line-up of German artistes both on schellack 78 record and live in front of a Berlin Concert Hall audience between the years 1940 and 1945, has been expertly restored, edited and digitally re-mastered by archival studio engineers to offer a superb 30-track, double-CD including: Narvik Lied - Drei Mädels - Kartner Liedermarsch - In Schutzenhaus ist Blasmusik - Tante Anna - Erika - Wir Kameraden den Weissen Berg - Kreuzritter Fanfare - Tapfere Jungens - Ein jedes Mädel liebt das Militär - Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss – Lili Marleen - Heimat deine Sterne - Das schönste auf der Welt - Leb' wohl Irene! - Weine nicht, Mutterlein - Einmal am Rhein - Dort wo die sieben Berg - Soldat in Polen - Siegfried Linie - Skilauferlied – Das Liserl vom Bayerischen Wald - Das kann doch einen Seemann – Die kleine Stadt - Der junge an der Reling - Ruck-Zuck! - Liebes Mädel - Tiroler Holzhacker-Buab’n - Tapfere kleine Soldatenfrau and of course the show's famous closing number: Gute Nacht Mutter...  |
