Artist: Josephine Kraus
Author: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben/Johann Peter Cornelius d'Alquen
Label: Odeon
Year: 1907
Folk melody from Silesia. German composer Johann Peter Cornelius d'Alquen (1800-1863) wrote Mops und Möpschen, inspired by a poem August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote in 1844 (Was ist Schuld daran). Dutch translation in 1865 by J.J.A. Goeverneur, an author from Groningen who also wrote Op Twee Haasjes (in een groen groen knollen knollenland), Roodborstje Tikt Tegen 't Raam and (Reizen en Avonturen van) Mijnheer Prikkebeen.
Covers:
Ome Koos en Tante Riek [as Toen Onze Mops Een Mopsje Was; music: Jan Worp (1866), keeping the original German refrain]
Albert de Booy [idem]
Maui Eilanders [for Decca]
Spelbrekers [for Riccolo]
Wiener Sängerknaben [in German]
Lionel Hampton [on tour in Europe; along with a Zeg Kwezelke Wilde Gij Dansen]
Acker Bilk [as Als unser Mops noch Möpschen hiess]
Springfields [as Waf Woof, partly in Dutch, with Dusty]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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