Moonlight

Written by eklastic

In 1960 Ted Herold, a German, at the time fairly well-known singer, aka Harald Walter Bernhard Schubring, had a no. 1 hit with the title “Moonlight”. I always assumed that it was a cover version of an English song but not so. It’s a German original, the only English word in the song is “moonlight”.

It’s not a bad song and it became the greatest hit of “the German Elvis”. If you want to check it out, here you go.

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19 thoughts on “Moonlight”

    1. Die Birkenbihl-Methode funktioniert in etwa so und Duo benutzt einiges der Ideen kombiniert mit anderen. Aber ich vermute, dass wir zum einen sehr jung waren, als wir diese Lieder gelernt haben und ich habe diese Schallplatte mindestens 100+ gehört.

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      2. In den ersten Jahren konnte ich meinen großen Schwestern kaum entrinnen. Aber ich hab das auch später gehört, Zwischen den Bergen, ein tiefes Tal, die Welt ist schön, Mylord, ein Schiff wir kommen, Wooden Heart, der lachende Vagabund, die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel … was hab ich vergessen?

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    2. I believe you. It’s not a series I’ve ever watched. The song was produced in the time that Elvis was stationed in Germany with the army, so his looks and I guess also his songs were very present at the time.

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    1. It’s nostalgia pure for me. Because we had the lp of the no. 1 hits in Germany in 1960. I don’t know how often I’ve played that record, that’s a year after I was born. I’m sure my teenage sisters played this record again and again while little me absorbed. I still know all of them, and believe me, some where rather awful (a better one that year was Conny Francis singing the German version of “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool”).

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      2. It was kind of cute but on pure German pronunciation Conny Francis was much better. And they all were better than a number of German singers of the time who thought they had to sing in English.

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