WAGEN ROLLT, DER

Created on 01/03/2007
Latest update on 20/12/2009

Artist: Rudolf Baumbach
Author: Rudolf Baumbach
Year: 1879

Teacher-poet from Thuringen (1840-1905). First line of this poem: Hoch auf der gelben Wagen. Music was added after his death in 1922 by Heinz Hoehne. That's when it became a signature tune of the Wandervogelbewegung, kind of a romantic counter force against the German industrial effort. Dutch translation Hoog Op De Gele Wagen (by Margot Vos) became a local hit among schoolkids during every organized bus trip (in days before i-Pod that is).

Covers:

1920s:

Jean-Louis Pisuisse [in German during his cabaret performances]

1973:

Walter Scheel und die Düsseldorffer Männergesangsverein [the Bundeskanzler; hit GER as Hoch auf der gelben Wagen]

1973:

Roy Black [idem]

1973:

Kurt Edelhagen [idem]

1974:

Heino [idem]

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