CHARLIE AND HIS ORCH. Stormy Weather/ It's a Long Way to Tipperrary. Nazi jazz
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Jun 9, 2014 Sold Date
Jun 2, 2014 Start Date
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XXIX It’s a Long Way to Tipperary (Berlin, 1940) (male duet)

XXVIII Stormy Weather (Berlin, 1940) Churchill: “Can’t keep my poor ships together. They’re sinking all the time.”

Charlie and His Orchestra

    There are logos on the labels but no label names.

V+/E-. Stormy has a ticky beginning and some later noises as well. Tipperary is much better. Small sticker on label

Charlie and his Orchestra was a Nazi big band that altered the lyrics of U.S. and British popular songs for propaganda purposes. Founded in 1940, their shortwave broadcasts were directed primarily at Great Britain and the U.S. Between March, 1941 and February, 1943, they made over 45 78 rpm records. They were distributed in the occupied countries, are well recorded and are crazy scarce. Lord’s Jazz Discography (2010) lists various conjectural personnel but usual band members included Karl, “Charlie” Schwedler, vocals; Willy Berking, trombone; Fritz Brocksieper, drums, and Lutz Templin, bandleader. Propaganda and unusual circumstances aside, I think the band plays more tightly and swings more freely and unselfconsciously than many similar European groups.

According to Popsike, only eight of the discs have been sold on eBay: 2007 (1), 2008 (1), 2009 (1), 2011 (2), and 2013 (3, misidentified as featuring Charles Trenet,) all different titles.

This appears not to have been listed before in eBay.

Shipping: $ 4.00 to U.S., by location elsewhere.






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