O mein Papa
O mein Papa (or: Oh my Papa) is the title of a love song from the premiered on April 1, 1939 musical comedy The black pike, which has spun off as a pop hit later and became the Evergreen.
Genesis
The Swiss composer Paul Burkhard (* 1911, † 1977) wrote with Jürg Amstein and Erik Charell total of 5 tracks for the musical The black pike. The highlight of the comic operetta revue is the song O my papa, first presented by Erna Lenser in - a given - high broken German with grammatical errors during the premiere on 1 April 1939 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Overall, it brings the musical here at eleven performances.
It had lasted eleven years until the revue operetta was taken up again. The high German variant of the Swiss German original revue premiered on 16 March 1950 under the title The fireworks in the Munich State Theater on Gaertnerplatz. From this it chose the Swiss pop singer Lys Assia the sensitive O from my Dad, that she first sang in 1950 in Zurich's Bernhard Theater. This request concert was also broadcast by Swiss Radio; under whose audience was hard for her sick father, who still died the same night. The lyrics is about a young woman who sings adoringly about her father, who was known as a famous circus clown and artist.
Lys Assia's version
Lys Assia's version was established in March 1950 with the studio orchestra Beromunster under the direction of composer Paul Burkhard with certain emotional attachment. However, the single O mein Papa / Pony Song ( Decca 49 124, Telefunken 10 973 ) was published in January 1954 in the German charts. The film version of the revue titled fireworks with Lili Palmer's version of the song made from the premiere on September 16, 1954 for further success of Assia single that penetrated in August 1954 and ranked 7th on the German charts. This Lys Assia succeeded in Germany, the breakthrough, and already the sequel to Sweden girl came in May 1954, the first rank in the German charts. Assia brought 6 other versions of O mein Papa out, including in 1960 for Phillips ( 345 215 PF ), 1964 for Telefunken ( 55973 ) and in November 2008 for Cariblue (LP chorus of life; 14030 2). The latter version was produced by Michael Leonhard and Dierks Jürgen Westphal in Graz Sunshine Studio and Studio WetCat ( Uslar ).
Another German -language version brought out Rita Wottawa 1953. In Germany, the instrumental versions of Ray Anthony (June 1954) and Harry James ( September 1954 ), nor could reach the charts.
Million Sellers
The British trumpeter Eddie Calvert took on 29 July 1953, music producer Norrie Paramor at Abbey Road Studios, an instrumental version on. This came in the British charts, where it occupied in 1954 topped by 8 January for nine weeks on 18 December 1953. At the same time they came in the USA to sixth and was the first top hit from Great Britain in the American charts. Calvert added to a chorus trumpet version sold over 3 million copies, one million of them in early 1954. The English text written John Turner ( Jimmy Phillips) and Geoffrey Parsons almost verbatim after the original German. Calvert's version was the first million-seller of a British solo instrumentalists in the United States. At the same time it was the first million-seller from the Abbey Road recording studios.
On December 12, 1953 Eddie Fisher was with the Orchestra Hugo Winterhalter in the studio to record a vocal version under the title Oh! Einzuspielen My Pa Pa (Victor 5552 ). These spent eight weeks at number 1 in the U.S. and sold over a million copies.
Other cover versions
The song has been translated into 42 languages , Cover Info lists 67 cover versions. Wilma Landskroon sang a Dutch version mijn papa Oh, listen to the CD released in 1992 19 Successen. Dodo Jud coverte in 2012, the version of Lys Assia in the broadcast on Swiss television " Cover Me " '. Composer Burkhard said once prognostically about his work: " A melody is to adhere, I 'm not even unhappy when it is in the case of, O mein Papa ' ... even a hit and goes all over the world. It is I am keen that the audience keeps my songs in the ear. "He was right, because O mein Papa is one of the evergreens of the Schlager.