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3rd Reich Swing: Adalbert Lutter Tanz-Orchester - Sei nicht feige, wenn ein süßes Mädel lacht 1943

2,864 views · Published 17 June 2015 · 2:27 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music

Adalbert Lutter m.s. Grosses Tanz-Orchester, Gesang: Erwin Hartung - Sei nicht feige, wenn ein süßes Mädel lacht (Don’t Be a Coward, When a Sweet Girl Laughs) Foxtrott (Drabek - Petras), Telefunken 1943 (Germany)

NOTE: In 1943, the larger part of European territory was plunged deep in the depths of war. That fact may stay in a sharp contrast to the light-hearted frivolity of this happy foxtrot. What could the bandleaders of the dance orchestras do? They just continued their job, trying to give people at last a moment of forgetting from the atrocities of war. They were doing their job – playing on their instruments. That’s all. And all we can do now, is say a few words of appreciation to their musical talents, which in spite of war, resulted in the continuing issues of such well-done dance-swing recordings like this one.

Adalbert LUTTER – a German pianist and dance band conductor was, no doubt, one of the most influential entertainment show-men and swing-dance musicians in Germany in the 1930s.-1940s. Born in 1896 in Osnabrück, he founded his first dance band shortly after the 1st WW in Hannover. Not very succesful, he emigrated to South Ameriuca, where he stayed until 1928. After returning to Berlin, he spent some time trying to arrange a new dance band and begin its activity on a crowded jazz- and dance-music market in the Weimar Republic. It took him until 1932, when his new dance band started to be recognized, becoming one of the best in the city soon. It appeared in the most fashionable Berlin’s dance and entertainment venues, including the Wilhelmshallen at the Zoo, the European Pavilion or the roof garden of the Café Berlin and working with popular singers, such as Eric Helgar, Rudi Schuricke, the Metropol vocalists, the Spree Revellers. Lutter was also guest conductor at Telefunken and made numerous recordings with his orchestra at this company, as well as Deutsche Grammophon. After World War II, his orchestra was the resident band of the Berlin Rundfunk (Nationwide Radio Station). In 1961 he retired and died in 1970 in Berlin.

3rd Reich Swing: Adalbert Lutter Tanz-Orchester - Sei nicht feige, wenn ein süßes Mädel lacht 1943

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