Older German music?

Question

i am a nurse who takes care of a 80 year old woman from Germany she can't remember titles of song but can sing them...could anyone recommened a good mix of fun songs to make her smile ...i assume folk songs..songs from the 20's

Thanks

Answer 1

If the lady is 80 now, I would think she might be remembering popular songs from perhaps the 40s, and wartime.

I'd suggest "schlager" by Lale Anderson, which you can download free from the net:

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/ar... (if you can get into it!)

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Lale+Ander...

Also try Zara Leander:

http://www.musicals101.com/who23.htm (scroll down a bit for her bio)

You can try them on YouTube also.

I think she'd love to hear the popular songs from her dizzy dancing days!

Oh, Marlene Dietrich, too, but the older songs.

Answer 2

well i don't know about the 20's but my grandma liked Heino,Heintje,Roberto Blanco,

Answer 3

It is also possible that she remembers songs from a vocalist group called "the comedian harmonists", songs were called "Veronika, der Lenz ist da", "Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus", "Kein Schwein ruft mich an" and so on. There was a movie made about them, called "Comedian Harmonists", which is very good, and you should be able to find CDs of them on Amazon. If not of the "Comedian Harmonists", try "Max Rabe und das Palastorchester" or just "May Rabe". He is a contemporary artist who sings old songs from the comedian harmonists and is also in contact with the widows from the old comedian harmonists and has quite a few songs that were written by them, but were not published/recorded by them because the group got broken up by the rise of n***s in Germany (half of them were Jews and emigrated, trying to perform as "Comedian harmonists" in the US, while the non-jewish part of the original group still performed as "the commedian harmonists" in Germany). Anyway, Max Rabe (might also be written with two "a"s, not sure there) sings them now, so you might get lucky with that.

Good Luck anyway!

Answer 4

Freut euch das Leben,  Im Grünewald ist Holzauction,

Du Du liegst mir am Herzen, Tante Anna, Mädel ruck ruck ruck, Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss,, Ein Seefahrt, sie ist lustig, Kommt ein Vöglein geflofen,

UND SO WEITER

How many do you want?

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Die Lorelei,  Mein Hut Der hat drei Ecken,  Du kannst nicht treu sein,  and of course, In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus

and more--

Am Brunnen vor dem Tore,  Wien Wien nur du allein,

Auf der Reeperbahn nachts un halb eins,

Gradaus dem Wirthaus

and a couple more

Edelweiss, Lili Marlene, Weisst du wieviel Sternen stehen

and for Christmas:

Am Weinnachtsbaum die Lichter brennen,

Leise rieselt der Schnee

O Tannenbaum

Ihr Kinderlein kommet

Es ist ein Rose entsprungen

Stille Nacht