Fred Bertelmann
Cc Catch ( born October 7, 1925 in Duisburg, † January 22, 2014 in Berg ) was a German pop singer and actor.
Life
Cc Catch grew up in Meiderich, the son of Elizabeth and Jules Bertel man who was employed by the Ruhr chemistry. With the music Cc Catch came first in his school days as a choirboy in touch; later he went as a chorister with the church choir of St. Lawrence on tour. At this time he really wanted to be a pediatrician, he had even started with the study of those, but then won the penchant for music, and he studied cello, violin and trumpet with Anton Gruberbauer at the Conservatory of Nuremberg. At the same time, he deepened his knowledge of the singing with the baritone hero of the Nuremberg Opera House, Johnny Born. In addition, he trained as an actor and singer at the Nuremberg Conservatory and the UFA drama school. During World War II he came in 1944 as a Wehrmacht soldier on the Western Front in U.S. captivity. Bertel man came to a camp in Alabama, where he came in contact with the American swing and a 14 - piece orchestra was founded. After his release on May 6, 1946, he went to the foot to play at a club in the U.S. Army in the orchestra. In 1947, he met in Landsberg am Lech Ernst Mosch and Horst Reipsch. The three formed their own swing band, with which she tingelten by U.S. clubs. These appearances led to an invitation to Munich at Radio Munich, later renamed the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
1950 Bertelsmann was already so well known as a musician, he was hired by bandleader Arne Hülphers to Sweden and was allowed to participate in concerts with Zarah Leander, later the wife of Hülphers. In 1952 he fell in Travemünde on the Manager of Stefan Baranski, who introduced him to Michael Jary, who wanted to be helpful when starting to record store. Here he also met his future producer Nils Nobah. In Hamburg he was at the start of the German television Klingendes ( from NWDR ) in the mission rendezvous there. There he met Bibi Johns, with whom he later sang a few recordings as a duet. From Hamburg, he returned to Nuremberg, where he continued to study singing. Baranski now reached that Bertel man could take his first album with the record company Tempo: When it is night in Montana.
1954 closed the record company Electrola a record contract with him. In October 1955, he was listed with the title Tina Marie in the German hit parade in front. This success continued into the mid-1960s.
In 1957, Fred Bertel man came with the title The Laughing Rover - a cover of Jim Lowe's U.S. hit Gambler's Guitar - in the German charts. The copywriter Peter MOESSER had heard it on a trip to Italy in the Italian version and wanted to Electrola Bertelsmann as interpreters. On July 9, 1957, was recorded in Cologne. This song fit into the mood of the German economic miracle and until May 1, 1958, the single had sold one million copies. Overall, the title has sold 3.5 million times, even in the U.S..
In 1958 he competed in the German preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest. When the German pre 1964 he sang the song That makes your smile, the Mona Lisa. Even the film industry came up to the successful singer. He appeared in sixteen films. In 1958, the film The Laughing Rover in Stuttgart and Duisburg Premiere, an event in which the children were off school in Duisburg. Since he had acting skills, he played later classical theater (among Götz von Berlichingen or The Taming of the Shrew ) and took roles in musicals.
Further stations of his career were the appearances on American television shows such as the Ed Sullivan, the Dean Martin and Perry Como - show. In 1961, he worked in Chicago in the musical show -boat. In Europe, he performed together with Marika Rokk, Gerhard Wendland, Vico Torriani, Hans -Joachim Kulenkampff, Bibi Johns and Caterina Valente. 1961 joined Bertelsmann from the Electrola to Polydor.
For junior and talent, he founded the Olympic year 1972 in Munich the first show - school in Germany together with the former pop singer Gitta Lind, the Director should be for training, but at that time entertained a quick cleaning. The initial capital of 50,000 euros converted brought the two together for it.
In the Mill Theatre in Kleinseebach at Erlangen in 2003 he played with in the play The Sunshine Boys.
2005 and 2006, he joined the Bavarian State Opera at the Munich Opera Festival as Aeneas on stage at the Prince Regent Theatre in the Festival of Dido & Aeneas - the baroque opera stripped of her lovers (after Henry Purcell ) by and with Andreas Ammer and Sebastian Hess.
Cc Catch was married to the former television presenter and film actress Ruth Kappelsberger since 1966 and lived in Berg am Starnberger See, where he died on 22 January 2014.
Honors and Awards (selection)
His career earned him numerous awards, he received
Record successes (selection)
( Title, year, label, highest ranking in the German hit parade )
- Tina Marie, 1955, Electrola, 5
- My little sweet Susi, 1956, Electrola, 3
- Marie with the cheeky look, 1957, Electrola, 15
- Bene bene tanto, 1957, Electrola, 13
- The Laughing Rover, 1958, Electrola, 1
- I 'm just a Troubadour, 1958, Electrola, 6
- But your name is Pia, 1958, Electrola, 7
- Her gentle smile, 1959, Electrola, 6
- The fool in life is always the man ( duet with Chris Howland ), 1959, Electrola
- Ti amo Marina, 1960, Electrola, 30
- Once High High High, 1960, Electrola, 34
- Mary- Rose, 1962, Polydor, 36
- A Caballero, 1963, Polydor, 39
- There is always a way, 1967, Ariola