CHARLIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA - "NAZI JAZZ"
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Description
Charlie and his Orchestra (also referred to as the "Templin band" and "Bruno and His Swinging Tigers") were a Nazi-sponsored German propaganda swing band.
Joseph Goebbels, despite his and the Nazi authorities negative view of this music as decadent “Negro music”, saw the potential to use this popular music form as a part of the propaganda against the Allied countries, the United States and the United Kingdom in particular.
British listeners heard the band every Wednesday and Saturday at around 9 pm. The importance of the band in the propaganda war was underscored by a BBC survey, released after World War II, which indicated that that 26.5 percent of all British English listeners had, at some point, heard programmes from Germany. The Propaganda Ministry also distributed their music on 78 rpm records to POW camps and occupied countries.
Thus a number of records were made most of which are now destroyed and those left are EXTREMELY RARE. American swing and popular British songs were initially performed true to the original, until about the second or third stanza where pro-German lyrics and monologues would be introduced. The songs stressed how badly the war was going for the target audience, and how it was only going to be a matter of time before they would be beaten.
Here you have a chance of acquiring two really swinging items to show that despite the lyrics they show how well this orchestra had mastered the swing idiom to compete with the best orchestras in the early 1940s.
Record 1:
Dinah 015 No name of label
Condition: A conservative E- with some rubs but plays superbly
Daisy 016 No name of label
Condition: As for 015 an E- some rubs but has an internal scratch about half an inch. Still plays really well.
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