WW2 CHARLIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA VINYL 78 RPM - MAN WITH THE BIG CIGAR - SIEGFRIED
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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. Jazz music styles were seen by Nazi authorities as rebellious but, ironically, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels conceived of using the style in shortwave radio broadcasts aimed at the United States and (particularly) the United Kingdom.
British listeners heard the band every Wednesday and Saturday at about 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 26.5 percent of all British listeners had at some point heard programmes from Germany.[1] The German Propaganda Ministry also distributed their music on 78 rpm records to POW camps and occupied countries.The purposes of the band were to encourage pro-Nazi sympathies, draw attention to World War II Allied losses, convince listeners that Great Britain was a pawn for American (and Jewish) interests and convey German dictator Adolf Hitler's messages in an entertaining form. The songs stressed how badly the war was going for the target audience, and how it would be only a matter of time until they would be defeated.
American swing and popular British songs were initially performed true to the originals until the second or third stanza, when pro-German lyrics and monologues would be introduced. For example, in the Walter Donaldson hit "You're Driving Me Crazy" Schwedler croons about the confusion of new love; in the third stanza, he continues: "Here is Winston Churchill's latest tear-jerker: Yes, the Germans are driving me crazy / I thought I had brains / But they shot down my planes...". Later, the entire lyric would be modified (clearly based on the original). The band also recorded (unaltered) cover versions of popular songs.
PLAYS GREAT WITH EITHER A 78 OR LP STYLUS
SIDE ONE - THE MAN WITH THE BIG CIGAR (CHURCHILL) SIDE TWO - I'M SENDING YOU THE SIEGFRIED LINE
A DONATION FROM THE SALE OF THIS RECORD GOES TO "HELP FOR HEROES" THIS VINYL 78RPM IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION PLAYS GREAT
ALL RECORDS ARE POSTED IN SPECIALLY MADE BOXES TO PREVENT BREAKAGES
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