{"id":1218,"date":"2024-04-15T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2024-04-15T17:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:25:36","slug":"hans-sohnker-metropol-vokalisten-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2024\/04\/15\/hans-sohnker-metropol-vokalisten-1937\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans S\u00f6hnker & Metropol-Vokalisten – 1937"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Odeon<\/p>\n

“F\u00fcr wen macht eine Frau sich sch\u00f6n”
\nHans S\u00f6hnker und die Metropol-Vokalisten, vocal; with Robert Renard Tanzorch
\n(Odeon 0-25913 a mx 11734)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0June 23, 1937<\/p>\n

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Here is a very catchy tune from the 1937 German film Der Unwiderstehliche<\/em><\/a> (The Irresistible Man<\/em>), which starred Hans S\u00f6hnker<\/a>, who also performs the vocal on this recording.\u00a0 The song’s title translates to “Who Does A Woman Make Herself Beautiful For?”<\/p>\n

Hans S\u00f6hnker was a well-known actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1933 and 1980.\u00a0 During World War II, S\u00f6hnker lived a double life, obediently appearing in propaganda films while, at the same time, using his summer house to hide Jews from the authorities.\u00a0 He was one of a small group of actors and actresses who were part of a network that smuggled Jews out of Nazi German to the safety of Switzerland.\u00a0 Had he been caught, it would almost certainly have cost him his life.<\/p>\n

The Metropol-Vokalisten<\/a> was a vocal quartet that patterned itself after the Comedian Harmonists<\/a> (who, in turn, patterned themselves after imported recordings by the American harmony group The Revelers<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Robert Renard was one of many recording pseudonyms used by Otto Dobrindt’s<\/a> in-house orchestra for various record labels produced by the Carl Lindstr\u00f6m Company, <\/a>such as Odeon, Parlophon, Gloria, and others.<\/p>\n

This recording was made in the Lindstr\u00f6m recording studios in Berlin at
\n26 Schlesische Stra\u00dfe.\u00a0 The huge complex<\/a>, which included a record pressing plant, printing plant, and company offices, survived the war and is still in use by a variety of tenants.<\/p>\n

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“F\u00fcr wen macht eine Frau sich sch\u00f6n” Hans S\u00f6hnker und die Metropol-Vokalisten, vocal; with Robert Renard Tanzorch (Odeon 0-25913 a mx 11734)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0June 23, 1937   Here is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":69,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}