Andy, one of my faithful readers, has been educating me in the world of German Disney cover songs. When it comes to foreign language Disney covers I only really have a lot of Japanese and Portuguese covers due to the number of Japanese cover albums and bossa nova discs out there.
However, there is a whole world of covers out there and I am just beginning to scrape the surface! Andy was good enough to send me this cover of Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf by a German orchestra called MAX RAABE & PALAST ORCHESTER. Here is what Andy knows about the group:
The Palast Orchestra with its singer Max Raabe usually plays German hits of the 1920's/1930's in (probably) its original style, but in the last years it tended to include also foreign-language hits from that era to its repertoire.
Actually about ten years ago, they also hooked up on (then) prominent pop-songs [Britney Spears' Oops...I Did It Again, for instance]. Their popularity started to rise immensely some years ago, so they now performed all over the world including Italy, Japan an L.A. and New York, where their last tour started.
Apparently, they also played at Marilyn Manson's wedding in 2005!
The recording you will hear is taken from a live recording from their most recent Berlin tour, however the same song can be found on their latest North American release, HEUTE NACHT ODER NIE
, a live recording from Carnegie Hall in New York.
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I forgot to translate the opening narration: "Music and personal fate often go together in a dramatic way. No matter... as long as you are not involved."
(Does this translation make sense? Is it understandable?)
Moin, Moin from Texas!
If you like Max' music and the Golden entertainment of the 1920s, you might like Brendan McNally's dark comic novel "Germania" (Simon & Schuster, 2009), about the Flying Magical Loerber Brothers, four somewhat magical, Jewish vaudeville entertainers and onetime child stars who were the toast of Berlin before WWII and who reunite during the surreal, three-week "Flensburg Reich" of Admiral Doenitz, Hitler's very unlucky successor.
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