Reveals the dramatic story behind an unlikely World War II anthem, describing a German poem about a young woman waiting for the return of her soldier lover and how the piece was set to music by one of Hitler's favored composers in the decadent cabaret scene of the 1930s. 13,000 first printing.
Drafted into the U.S. army in 1943, Robert Peters was a shy and devout eighteen-year-old from a remote and impoverished Wisconsin farm.
Lili Marlene: Twentieth Century Military and Political Battles
The music accompanying this introduction consists primarily of distorted electric guitar, bass, drums, and synthesizer. The style is influenced by hard rock/metal and seems to allude to a nü metal type of guitar riff.
Ed . John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes . Vol . 7. New York : Oxford UP , 1999. 374–79 . American Jewish Historical Society . American Jewish Desk Reference . New York : Random House , 1999 . “ Anchors Aweigh .
... Lili, 77. 54. “Lilli Marlene,” BBCICM from Mr. Gilbert to Mr. Cecil Madden, July 28, 1943, BBC WAC R27/178. 55. According to Lehrke, Andersen also smuggled letters out of the Warsaw ... Lili Marlene,” Sexuality, and the Desert War / 101.
... Lili of the lamplight , My own Lili Marlene . Vor der kaserne , vor dem grossen tur , Stand eine laterne , und steht sie nock davor , So wollen wir uns da wieder sehn , Bei der laterne wollen wir stehn , Wie eins Lili Marlene , Wie eins ...
... Lili Marlene . " Thankfully , the other somehow ended up in Switzerland . The British music publisher J. J. Phillips and the songwriter Tommie Connor brought out an English version of the song in 1944. This version is an uneven ...
Jean Freedman interviewed more than fifty people who remember London during the war, focusing on under-represented groups, including women, Jews, and working-class citizens.
... Lili Marlene Like then, Lili Marlene Our casted shadows appearing as one and the love we had, clear to everyone and to all people that was quite plain when by the lantern we were stayin' Like then, Lili Marlene Like then, Lili Marlene ...
Jimmy McHugh . w . Dorothy Fields . According to the copyright records at LC , this song , without " ( Baby ) " in its title , was published from Harry Delmar's Revels on March 6 , 1928 , by Jack Mills , Inc. , New York , N.Y. No copy ...