"Hannelore" (Niel) Joe Bund, 1939

German soldiers' love song composed in 1938 by Herms Niel (1888-1954). Performed by Joe Bund's Dance Orchestra (from Berlin), with the Metropol Vocalists. Recorded in Berlin, 1939.

Additional info: song about a couple in love (a soldier and a girl called Hannelore), separated, but still loyal to each other. It originally has three strophes; 1st and 3rd strophe recorded. Joe Bund played here a march-fox arrangement, without the long march-intro.

Note: mono recording, from I.Ž. 78rpm record collection; not to be used for commercial or propaganda purposes.

Other known recordings of this song:
1938 Quartet & Band of the State Labour Service under Herms Niel
1938 Metropol Vocalists & Carl Woitschach's Brass Band
1938 Erich Heyn's Quartet & Adalbert Lutter's Dance Orchestra
1938 Erich Heyn's Quartet & Otto Kermbach's Dance Orchestra
1938 The Richter's & Walter Raatzke's Orchestra
1939 Chorus & Bruno Seidler-Winkler's Brass Band
1942 Aimo Andersson & orchestra (Finnish version)
1942 Georg Malmstén & military band (Finnish version)

[it was also included in medleys "Wir marschieren mit Herms Niel" by Erich Gutzeit (1942) and "Singendes klingendes Spiel" (1955)]