"A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include ""Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"" (with Joe Hickerson), ""If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)"" (with Lee Hays of the Weavers), and ""Turn! Turn! Turn!"", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are sung throughout the world. ""Flowers"" was a hit recording for the Kingston Trio (1962); Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962); and Johnny Rivers (1965). ""If I Had a Hammer"" was a hit for Peter, Paul and Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963) while the"
"Town"", ""Shir Hatan"", ""La Vie en Rose"", ""Jonny"", ""Go 'Way From My Window"", ""Don't Smoke in Bed"", ""Lola"", ""Marie-Marie"" and ""Frag nicht warum ich gehe"". A limited special edition of the book ""Photographs and Memories"" (published in 2001 by Nicolai, Berlin) included a recording of the soundtrack of Dietrich's 1963 filmed concert at Berns Salonger as an audio CD bonus. The Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin's archival holdings include soundtrack prerecording discs and unissued radio and concert recordings. The following of Dietrich's studio recordings remain unreleased: ""Du, du liegst mir im Herzen"", ""Aus der Jugendzeit"", ""Das zerbrochene Ringlein"", ""Treue Liebe"" (all"
"with the Operation Entertainment Medal. The French Government made her a (later upgraded to ) of the and a Commandeur of the . Her other awards include the Medallion of Honor of the State of Israel, the Fashion Foundation of America award and a (Belgium). Dietrich is referenced in a number of popular 20th century songs, including Rodgers and Hart's ""The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"" (1935), Peter Sarstedt's ""Where Do You Go To, My Lovely?"" (1969), Suzanne Vega's ""Marlene On The Wall"" (1985), and Madonna’s ""Vogue"" (1990). In 2000 a German biopic film ""Marlene"" was made, directed by"
"inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. In 2012 it was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry list of ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically important"" American sound recordings. Ella Fitzgerald recorded this song in 1956 on her Verve double-album ""Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook"". Barbara Stanwyck starred in the film ""Ten Cents a Dance"" (1931), which was inspired by the song. In the MGM biographical film about Etting, ""Love Me or Leave Me"" (1955), the song is performed by Doris Day. The Day recording was also released by Columbia. Michelle Pfeiffer also performs"
"Richard Tauber. The film ""Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo"", directed by David Hemmings in 1979, was titled after the first verse of the original lyrics, but the ""Just a Gigolo"" title was used for US distribution. In this film, the song was performed by Marlene Dietrich, in her last film appearance. ""Just a Gigolo"" is best known in a form recorded by Louis Prima in 1956, where it was paired in a medley with another old standard, ""I Ain't Got Nobody"" (words by Roger A. Graham and music by Spencer Williams, 1915). Although these two songs have nothing else in common,"
"Marlene Dietrich discography Marlene Dietrich's recording career spanned sixty years, from 1928 until 1988. She introduced the songs ""Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)"" (from the film ""The Blue Angel"") and ""See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have"" (from ""Destry Rides Again""). She first recorded her version of ""Lili Marlene"" in 1945. Her first long-playing album was ""Marlene Dietrich Overseas"", was a prestige success for Columbia Records in 1950. She also recorded several duets with Rosemary Clooney in the early 1950s: these tapped into a younger market and charted. During the 1960s, Dietrich recorded several albums"
"of his earlier hit. The tune was used for Billy Wilder's ""Witness for the Prosecution"" (1957), sung by Marlene Dietrich with new English lyrics as ""I May Never Go Home Anymore"". The song is popular with fans of the Hamburg football club St. Pauli. The song has been parodied numerous times including Mike Krüger's ""On the Autobahn at Half Past Midnight"" (Auf der Autobahn nachts um halb eins). On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (song) ""On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight"" (German:"""") is a 1912 German song by Ralph Arthur Roberts, originally written for a musical revue. The"
"7). All the other tracks remain unissued, with the partial exception of ""Lili Marleen"". With its massive success on the war front, specifically on the German language OSS MO radio station ""Soldatensender"", where it became the station's theme song, the song was re-recorded in English and released, with the spelling ""Lili Marlene"", as a 10"" single by Decca in 1945. Though other recordings of the song in German were performed by Dietrich, the original OSS recording of the track is presumed unissued. Many of Dietrich's performances of songs in her films have been included in compilations of her music: Marlene"
"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy ""Waist Deep in the Big Muddy"" is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1967 and made famous because of its censorship from ""The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"". The song tells the story of a platoon wading in a river in Louisiana on a practice patrol in 1942. Imperiously ignoring his sergeant's concerns, the captain orders the platoon to continue with himself in the lead until they are finally up to their necks. Suddenly, the captain drowns and the sergeant instantly orders the unit to turn back to the original shore. It turns out"
"Seeger, and George Lewis. Big Joe Turner recorded it several times over his long career. T. Texas Tyler recorded a version in 1946 for 4-Star Records. Fats Domino made a recording of it in 1951, and it has also been sung by Eddy Arnold, Entrance, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album ""101 Gang Songs"" (1961), Eartha Kitt, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Dave Van Ronk, Lead Belly, Odetta, Lee Wiley, Janis Joplin, Siouxsie Sioux, Suzy Bogguss, Joan Baez, Ray Charles, Ace Cannon, Ronnie Lane, Dr. John, Madeleine Peyroux, Bob Dylan, Bill Monroe and"
"Pete Seeger Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's ""Goodnight, Irene"", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, and environmental causes."
"she walks down a rubbled street, ravaged by Allied attacks, with Spencer Tracy's character. As they approach a bar they hear men inside singing ""Lili Marleen"" in German. Dietrich begins to sing along with the song, translating a few lyrics for Tracy, referring to the German lyrics as ""much darker"" than the English. While touring the world in live one-woman cabaret shows from 1953 to 1975, the song was part of Dietrich's usual line-up, usually following ""Falling in Love Again"". She always introduced the song with some variation of this quote, from a 1960s concert, somewhere in Europe: Dietrich sang"
"this period, including ""Two Sleepy People"" and ""Heart and Soul"" with Hoagy Carmichael and ""I Hear Music"" with Burton Lane. He also worked with Arthur Schwartz, and Joseph J. Lilley. One of his notable efforts was ""See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have"", with music by Friedrich Hollaender sung by Marlene Dietrich in ""Destry Rides Again."" In 1941, he wrote ""I Don't Want to Walk Without You"" with Jule Styne included in the 1942 film ""Sweater Girl"" and sung by Betty Jane Rhodes. Irving Berlin was a huge fan of the song, and once played it over"
"in New York City which produced Butler's hit ""Make It Easy on Yourself"". However, Butler's ""Message to Martha"" was not released until December 1963 when it appeared as a track on Butler's ""Need to Belong"" album. Marlene Dietrich recorded a German version of the song in 1964, singing to the instrumental track of the Butler original (with augmentations); Dietrich's version was entitled ""Kleine Treue Nachtigall"" ('faithful little nightingale'), the German lyrics were written by Max Colpet. In 1964 Bacharach had Lou Johnson record the song as ""Kentucky Bluebird"": this version reached ""Billboard""'s ""Bubbling Under the Hot 100"" chart at #104"
"song on the taping of the CBS show in September, 1967 but CBS management objected to its political tone, and censored the song prior to broadcast. Following the strong support from the Smothers Brothers, the show's hosts, CBS later relented and allowed Seeger to come back and sing the song on the Brothers' February 25, 1968 show. At the time, Seeger was under contract to Columbia Records, which was owned by CBS, and he had just recorded the song in an album titled ""Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs"". The broadcast is included on the DVD"
"and many singles, mostly with Burt Bacharach at the helm of the orchestra. ""Dietrich in London"", recorded live at the Queen's Theatre in 1964, is an enduring document of Dietrich in concert. In 1978, Dietrich's performance of the title track from her last film, ""Just a Gigolo"", was issued as a single. She made her last recordings — spoken introductions to songs for a nostalgia album by Udo Lindenberg — from her Paris apartment in 1987. Dietrich told Maximilian Schell in his documentary, ""Marlene"" (1984), that she thought ""Marlene singt Berlin-Berlin"" (1964) – her interpretations of Berliner popular songs from"
"charts. After Doris Day recorded ""I Have Dreamed"" in 1961, he wrote to her and her arranger, James Harbert, that theirs was the most beautiful rendition of his song he had ever heard. After Peggy Lee recorded her version of ""Lover"", a Rodgers song with a dramatically different arrangement from that originally conceived by him, Rodgers said, ""I don't know why Peggy picked on me, she could have fucked up Silent Night"". Mary Martin said that Richard Rodgers composed songs for her for ""South Pacific"", knowing she had a small vocal range, and the songs generally made her look her"
"1961. ""Marin"" has also been recorded by Charles Level (), Florence Passy (), John William (), Antoni Williams, and by Alain Morisod () & Sweet People for their 2009 album which is entitled ""Marin"". ""see Seemann (Lolita song)"". Sailor (song) ""Sailor"" is the title of the English-language rendering of the 1959 schlager composition ""Seemann (Deine Heimat ist das Meer)"" originally written in German by Werner Scharfenberger () and lyricist Fini Busch (): featuring lyrics in English by Norman Newell (writing as David West), ""Sailor"" would in 1961 afford Petula Clark her first UK #1 hit, simultaneously granting Top Ten success"
"lover is the overweight Percy Talandier but then she meets Count Lerski and sets her sights on him. Then she hears from her ex-husband Adolphe that Lerski is not a count, but works as a waiter. I Kiss Your Hand, Madame Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame is a 1929 German drama film starring Marlene Dietrich. It was released in the United States as I Kiss Your Hand, Madame in 1932. It was produced by Super-Film. There is no dialogue in the original version of this film, which was silent, apart from the title-song by Ralph Erwin, text by Fritz Rotter,"
"Sweet""). Seeger's song ""If I Had a Hammer"", written with Lee Hays in 1949 in support of the progressive movement, rose to Top Ten popularity in 1962 when covered by Peter, Paul and Mary, going on to become one of the major Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement. ""We Shall Overcome"", Seeger's adaptation of an American gospel song, continues to be used to support issues from labor rights to peace movements. Seeger was one of the leading singers to protest against then-President Lyndon Johnson through song. Seeger first satirically attacked the president with his 1966 recording of Len Chandler's"
"in the film ""Judgement at Nuremberg"". In a scene featuring Marlene Dietrich, who famously recorded the song several times, and Spencer Tracy Dietrich's character explains to Tracy's that the German words are much sadder than the English translations. The song's popularity among both Allied and Axis troops in the Western Desert front during World War Two was described in the British television program ""The World at War"", a signal documentary series broadcast in 1973-74 and narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, in Episode 8, ""The Desert: North Africa 1940-1943"". Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed the 1980 film ""Lili Marleen"", the story of"
"The Boys in the Back Room (song) ""The Boys in the Back Room"" is a song written by Frank Loesser, set to music by Frederick Hollander and performed by Marlene Dietrich in the film, ""Destry Rides Again"" (1939). It is often referenced as ""See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have"". Her winking performance was a parody of her vampish roles in earlier films such as ""The Blue Angel"" (1930) and ""Blonde Venus"" (1932). The song became a standard part of her repertoire, second only to ""Lili Marlene"". She also sang a German version called ""Gib doch den"
"Brownie McGhee, Mamou Cajun Band, Bernice Johnson Reagon, The Beers Family, Roscoe Holcomb, Malvina Reynolds, Sonia Malkine, and Shawn Phillips. Thirty-nine hour-long programs were recorded at WNJU's Newark studios in 1965 and 1966, produced by Seeger and his wife Toshi, with Sholom Rubinstein. The Smothers Brothers ended Seeger's national blacklisting by broadcasting him singing ""Waist Deep in the Big Muddy"" on their CBS variety show on February 25, 1968, after his similar performance in September 1967 was censored by CBS. In November 1976, Seeger wrote and recorded the anti-death penalty song ""Delbert Tibbs"", about the eponymous death-row inmate, who was"
"1962, Monica Zetterlund with Georg Riedel's Orchestra recorded a version of this song with Swedish lyrics by Beppe Wolgers entitled ""Sakta vi gå genom stan"" (lit. ""Slowly we walk through the city""). It is a subtle tribute to Stockholm, and has in recent years been voted the most popular song about the Swedish capital (in a poll by Radio Stockholm). Zetterlund has had a Stockholm park named after her. The song was released on the Philips label. In 1967, Ronnie Dove covered the song for his album Cry (Ronnie Dove album). In the opening of the 2002 TV film ""Martin"
"Seeger and became part of Seeger's live repertoire. The song was sung as a dirge by the dissident musician Wolf Biermann as a parodic critique of ""the stagnation of the socialist ideal"" in the GDR of the 1960s and 1970s. Freiheit (song) ""Freiheit"", also known as ""Spaniens Himmel"" or ""Die Thälmann-Kolonne"", is a song written in 1936 by Gudrun Kabisch and Paul Dessau, German anti-fascists. The song was written for the International Brigades but later became a popular standard in Germany and in American communist and folk music communities. The title translates as ""Freedom"" in English. The song was written"
"Freeman conducted the orchestra, using orchestrations of the Dietrich repertoire by Burt Bacharach. Taping took place on November 23 and November 24, 1972. Dietrich gave two complete shows to non-paying, invitee-only audiences. Shots of Dietrich interacting with the audience were also taped at the end of the second concert. She also shot retakes of ""Lili Marlene"" and ""Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)"" (the latter both in English and German) sans audience against a black velour backdrop to facilitate a post-production split-screen montage of her singing beside old black and white stills from the 1930s and 1940s. The best"
"guards at the Lichtenburg concentration camp had ordered prisoners to stage a performance in celebration of Hitler's 46th birthday; the imprisoned communist-friendly lawyer Hans Litten recited ""Die Gedanken sind frei"" in response. The Weavers recorded the song at a live concert in the 1950s. Pete Seeger also recorded the song, solo, back in the 1950s. The Limeliters recorded the song in 1962 on their ""Folk Matinee"" album. Pete Seeger recorded the song once more in his ""Dangerous Songs!?"" album in 1966. Norwegian composer Alf Cranner translated and recorded it as """" in 1985. Parts of the poem were also taken"
"Sanders ""Sunshine"" (TV special) for Bob Bain and John Denver ""Survival"" (TV documentary special) for Nelson Riddle Industrial films for Standard Oil and other clients, Chicago (1957-1962) ""And We Were Strangers"" with Ernie Sheldon, Almo Publishing, ASCAP, sung by Patty Duke (on the Patty Duke TV show) ""Baby Blue"" United Artists Publishing BM ""Baby What I Mean"" with Ernie Sheldon, United Artists Publishing, BMI ""The Drifters"" performed by …… #60 on Hot 100 in Billboard Magazine ""I Feel It"" with Ernie Sheldon, Almo Publishing ASCAP performed by Peggy Lee: #4 on Easy Listening Charts in Billboard Magazine ""Telling Me Lies"""
"the US R&B charts. Mayorga and Cobb also arranged and produced the first recordings by singer Ketty Lester, including the 1962 international hit ""Love Letters"" which featured Mayorga's sparse piano arrangement, copied note-for-note 25 years later by Alison Moyet on her 1987 UK hit version. He was also credited with arranging the Standells' 1966 hit single, ""Dirty Water"", written by Cobb. As Ketty Lester's success dwindled, Mayorga increasingly worked as a session musician in Los Angeles. He worked particularly closely with singer Phil Ochs on his albums ""Pleasures of the Harbor"", ""Rehearsals for Retirement"", ""Tape from California"" and others, and"
"a song originally done in 1981 by Setzer's previous band, the Stray Cats. ""Hollywood Nocturne"" was a discarded track from Setzer's previous album, ""Guitar Slinger"". The album also features a cover of the instrumental ""Sleep Walk"", made popular originally by songwriters and performers Santo & Johnny Farina in 1959. Setzer's arrangement and recording won a Grammy Award the following year for best pop instrumental recording. Paul Brandt later did a cover of the album's fourth track, ""Let's Live It Up"". The illustration and logo for ""The Dirty Boogie"" was created by Sir Richard Wentworth, using techniques such as pen and"
"many of which are based on traditional sources, include ""Venezuela,"" and the haunting Christmas song ""I Wonder As I Wander."" Henry Miller's ""Plexus"" includes a powerful tribute to Niles's recording of this song. Niles composed ""Go 'Way From My Window"" when he was a mere 16 years old, but did not perform it until 1930. Marlene Dietrich recorded it and sang it on stage. Bob Dylan quoted its first line in his song ""It Ain't Me Babe."" His original new melody to the traditional folk song ""Black Is the Color (Of My True Love's Hair)"" was similarly influential in the"
"released compilation album of the same name, consisting of songs sung in German by Dietrich. Released in 1961 by CBS Records on 7"" in the Netherlands. Released in 1962 by EMI Italiana on 7"" in Italy. ""List of personnel for the original 1945 single."" American entertainer Connie Francis recorded ""Lili Marlene"" on 3 June 1961. She recorded the single's B-side, ""Mond von Mexico"", on 5 October 1961. Both songs were recorded in Vienna, Austria at the Austrophon Studio. The single was released in 1962, marking her seventh single in German. Francis also recorded the song in Italian and French. Her"
"Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on guitar. She dropped out of college to pursue her musical aspirations, and moved to New York City, working as a waitress to support herself while performing folk songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses during the 1960s folk music boom. She married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album, ""Gliding Bird"". Harris and Slocum soon divorced, and Harris and her newborn daughter Hallie moved in with her parents in Clarksville, Maryland, a suburb near Washington, D.C. Harris soon returned to performing as part of a trio with Gerry Mule and"