FRIESENLIED

Created on 28/11/2001
Latest update on 03/11/2023

Artist: Bernhard Jakschtat
Author: Martha Müller-Grählert/Simon Krannig/Friedrich Fischer-Friesenhausen
Label: Odeon
Year: 1935

Based on a poem by Martha Müller-Grählert in regional dialect of Vorpommern at the Ostsee (Mine Heimat - 1907). Music (by Simon Krannig) was added in Zürich before it was relocated as a song to the North Sea (with new lyrics by Fischer-Friesenhausen).

Covers:

1936:

Richard Germer [for Telefunken]

1940:

Bernhard Jakschtat [on Polydor]

1949:

Jan Verbraeken [as Aan Het Noordzeestrand]

1950:

Jan Koster [idem]

1950s:

Lale Andersen [as Wo die Nordseewellen (Friesenlied)]

1950s:

Freddy Quinn

1964:

Rocco Granata [as Noordzeestrand]

1977:

Havenzangers [as Aan Het Noordzeestrand]

1988:

Will Tura [idem]

1991:

Jo Vally [idem]

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