Lieber Andreas,
vielen Dank für die Richtigstellung und die Informationen! Es hat leider lockere vier Jahre gebraucht, um irgendwem aufzufallen, daß das Jahr nicht stimmt. Für Strauss, Flexi-Discs und Pläne Schallplatten scheinen sich nur wenige Leute zu interessieren. Für Krautrock schon…
Grüsse aus Berlin
Andreas
Ich versuch auch schon seit ner Ewigkeit “Rock’n'Roll is here to stay” herunterzuladen.
Echt dankbar fürn erneutes hochladen.
1fcn
i remember the pulsaters playing at dover town hall & the leas cliff hall in folkestone, round about 1979/1980.
Excellent post, Andreas, and very true. There’s nothing as thrilling as getting a package in the mail from overseas with a 45-rpm single inside!
By the way, thanks to you the band will soon be incorporating a version of Le Climb into our set list.
Viele Grüße,
John
Thank you. I was pretty sure I drove even the last people away with this post. Glad you liked Le Climb.
you are right, but who am I supporting , when I order a used rare 7” over the internet. probably a commercial record-seller whom I do not want to sell cheap music at highest price. loving old vinyls etc , I do love them, and search for them. I search downloads as the next best thing. Globalgroovers is again confronted with a media-fire block. He had such nice things,so before I buy a congolese record I know what I pay for, thanks to the illegal download.
how do you know if a rerelease sounds better or flatter if you have nothing to compare. distributing the old stuff in a passionate way, makes sure that a rerelease for (not for the family of the long-dead musicians) some recordcompany is a quality challenge
He Andreas!
Very strong view of things there! Nice to read you so passionate about it!
honestly: I’ve been a DJ all my youth and I was always very passionate about (electronic music in this case) vinyl as well. Much because of other interests there was not SO much time to dig through recordstores and I just raised a collection of about .. 700? 12inces. Still a lot of stuff already and probably more than a usual music fan would collect.
But I actually stopped buying records! And I’m quite of the opposite opinion by the time now!
I remember how I carried around a 100 record cube around for gigs. How I had bruises on the hips and sore arms 
Sometimes you had a fat whitelabel test press just because of a small part of a track. Or a whole album because of 1 or 2 songs.. And now I have that stuff standing in my flat in Berlin where I already moved away..
So I got myself a Traktor Scratch Pro and started to digitize too. And the first times I played the MP3s of some really precious songs I felt … that feeling of like I really take something of that valuably vinyl. You know: Each time you play a record you destroy it a little. But this time I was on the save side!
Now when I collect digital music. Yes I don’t have a physical representation of it! And I don’t think its necessary anymore. Of course you can have Terrabytes of music and have never listened to 99% of the songs.. But it can happen to vinyls in a similar way when a full crate is sold for 10€ .. it sometimes ends up in the attic!
I for my part feel passionate about SONGS about Music no matter what medium! If its not live: Its canned either way. ( Sure: I’d like to get rid of most of my records for the digital version but some of them: I’d probably never give away! But in general I’m not passionate about that physical posessions the same way I don’t care for cars, big house or bling bling.. )
When on the dancefloor it finally comes out of the speakers and makes some body move is it really important anymore?
I think I take the same time and thought into setting up a digital set like I used to do it with vinyls. And thats what really counts for me! But: I’m glad that I don’t have to carry that much, glad that I can search with a couple keystrokes, place tags and even share songs in the middle of the night to play them right away!!
And after all I’m quite glad that less energy and resources were wasted on transporting the music.
Oldschool vinyl has its place for sure! Its simply part of the story! And I myself propelled that story long after people told it to be dead already!! (I skipped CDs completely)
But for me its really ok to let go. I have SO much stuff in my life. Physical stuff as well like those records too. And I’d really rather have LESS of it!! ( had to remember george carlin here ;] http://youtu.be/MvgN5gCuLac )
Well… sure: This digital distribution opens other ways to abuse of it all. On one hand its easier to get music without crediting the artists or music companies and to pile up unusable redundand heaps of digital rubbish..
But on the other: Artists can now bring music to the people more directly, get funded directly too! (e.g. bandcamp.com – “name your price”) or simply ask for donations and get money without having an “evil inhuman megacoorperation” inbetween.. ;]
And I really like to pay for the digital song only! (Less stuff!) And I’d love to pay you too for doing this here! No Shit: Why not have a flattr button or paypal donate?
Finally cool songs of Eggy Ley´s Jazzmen! Thanks a lot!
Pardon me for long reply. But I find it really interesting that we have a kind of opposite situation here. Hope you don’t hate me now :]
sincerely cheers:
ëRiC
Quite the opposite. Thanks Eric, for putting things in perspective. Most people I know dj with Mp3s and of course it has its advantages. After all, like you wrote: the songs and the music are what is important. Much of my one-sided attitude towards the digital world comes from a feeling of alienation and being confused by this downloading dilemma. And also my strange, deep-rooted fetishism with objects. My girlfriend really hates my collecting habit and continually urges me get rid of stuff. I admit it is a burden sometimes, to keep the piles in our appartement organized, but as I see it, that is part of being a fanatic. The objects are a physical representatin of that passion. Objects create comfort. An appartement with no furniture, pictures or books, is a jail cell. To me MP3s are like “The Emperor´s New Clothes”. It feels like some crooks have convinced everyone to buy a new, much more advanced format, whose merits can only be seen by intelligent people. And now everybody pretends it´s cool, because they don’t want to look stupid. And I´m the naive child in the crowd who shouts:”We´re all naked!”
Nobody knows how to solve the problem of “illegal” downloads and of course saying: “buy vinyl” is not a realistic solution. It´s not possible to turn back the hands of time. But sometimes I wonder what would happen, if artists refused to publish digital files. If all they produced was vinyl, or some other format that is not as easily reproducible. It would only take a little more effort to digitize it and it would not prevent people from distributing it illegally. But it would also tell everyone: this is my object that I offer you and want you to buy. Instead of offering a “product” that is invisible.
Dear Richard,
those are exactely the reasons why I´ve been doing this blog for the past five years and will continue to do. I still enjoy putting material from the real world into the digital world. If I´m the first one to do it, it feels like exploring new territory. It´s only a small territory on a tiny island, but at least I put it on the map. The map is the Internet and Google is the travel agency. And through that travel agency any visitor can now come to my little blog. But… suddenly these visitors create problems:
1. I´m helping to create a fantasy market. It bugs me when I see a flexi-disc that is worth 50 cents and that I posted on the Internet for the very first time, is now being offered on Ebay for 20 euros. Just because I put it on this blog, some sellers found it here and now they think there must be a market. Luckily they mostly don´t sell. I still buy interesting records for 50 cents every week.
2. I´m helping to create laziness. My intention with Berlin Beatet Bestes has always been to communicate that anybody can dig for records. It´s not rocket science. It´s very easy. You go into a thrift store and buy a record. I´ve found records in thrift stores all over the world. And you don´t have to go to the Congo to find interesting records either. They´re right there in your local neighborhood, whether you live in Berlin or Bagdad. But instead of incouraging people to go out and find something themselves, they come here! My blog is their thrift store!
But I guess in the end, that´s the fate of the explorer. You never know, if that stone you turned was better to be left alone.
Hi Andreas!
This song is called Ton pare no te nas (with N), it means “your father has no nose”.
Congratulations for your blog!
Thanks!
The Serenade in Swing is an adaption of Luigi Boccherini’s Menuet originally written for string quintet. Apart from this tune the composer is mostly forgotten today.
To my knowledge it was not unusual in the 60′s to re-arrange classical melodies, also regarding the fact that these were free of royalties to composers or publishers.
So it´s not a “swing classic” but a “swing arrangement of a classical piece”. No wonder I couldn´t find it. Thanks for solving that question. Glad educated people with some knowledge of classical music are also reading my stupid blog.
My dear sir,
you are a true hero to nerds everywhere who love this obscure, mad, maniacal stuff. i have found so many weird and wonderful songs on your site that words cannot express how much in debt i am to you. and this on the night that the final east german record disappears from the olympic record books.
I’m mexican (from Mexico City), and when I was a kid each sunday night my father and I used to hear the radio. Ocasionally, we heard a german swing sang by a female. The first word of lyrics is “Halló” and a suppose that the lyrics are about a lady who wants to know who is knocking on her door. She asks and the orchestra members answer “Nein, nein, nein” If someone knows the title of the song or the name of the singer, please let me knou in ggallo@ipn.mx I will be very happy and grateful
What a very clean sound well recorded , where and when was it recored
Thanks, I tried my best. The German archive of advertisement research states it was recorded in 1959. The label says it was recorded in Frankfurt (Aufnahme Tonstudio Frankfurt) and pressed by commission through Deutsche Grammophongesellschaft (Lohnpressung).
Rock ´n´ Roll-Mops 
Toller Titel, tolles Lied. Danke dafür
Hallo Andreas,
ich meine auch, diese Melodie öfter beim “Sender Zitrone” oder der “Kleinen Dachkammermusik” gehört zu haben, eventuell sogar als Anfangsmelodie ~~
Hermann Hoffmann, der Erfinder und Moderator beider Sendungen steckt übrigens auch hinter “Herman`s Studio Band” auf mindestens zwei der Teroson- Singles, von der Du ja auch eine gepostet hast.
Überhaupt würde ich gerne mal mit Dir in mail- Kontakt treten, da ich auch so einen Müll sammle und das Eine oder Andere doppelt habe, Postkartenplatten, Werbung etc.-
Meine letzten beiden Versuche brachten keine Antwort (ev. Spamfilter oder keine Lust ?), aber äußer`Dich doch gerne hier noch mal…
Grüße,
JK