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Lale Andersen - The Original Lilli Marlene  7" EP.  45 rpm ENGLAND / UK 1955 HMV HIS MASTERS VOICE 7EG 8277 mono VINYL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION COVER IN EXCELLENT CONDITION (Record has been carefully looked after with a disc cover on the actual disc and a plastic cover on the sleeve... Please see Photos 7-8 and 9)
Track Listing LILLI MARLENE DREI ROTE ROSEN.     (Three Red Roses) UNTER DER ROTEN LATERNE VON ST PAULI.   (Under the red lamps of St. Pauli) UNTER EINEM REGENSCHIRM AM ABEND.   (Under an umbrella in the evening)
As long ago as 1923 Hans Leip, a young German, wrote the lyric of Lilli Marlene. Fifteen years later Norbert Schultz added music and Lale Andersen a Danish-German cabaret artist, featured the song in a Berlin night-club. A recording she made at the time met with very little success. There the story might have ended, but for world war II. In April 1941 the Germans started broadcasting propaganda from Belgrade Radio Station and between bulletins they played old gramophone records, among them Lale Andersen's Lilli Marlene.  So popular did the song become with German soldiers that soon it was being broadcast every 20 minutes.   The African Corps adopted it as their marching song.   Tank crews of the British 8th Army took it up next, and from them the song spread to the rest of the British troops.    Something of the spell which Lale Andrersen's deep, enticing voice cast upon the armies of both sides can be recaptured by listening to her version of Lilli Marlene. The same qualities inform the other songs she performs, making them equally memorable.