ROSA, WIR FAHR'N NACH LODZ
Created on 28/02/2010Latest update on 07/04/2025
Artist: Karl Ujvary
Author: Fritz Löhner-Beda/Artur Marcell Werau
Year: 1915
Austrian. Popular with German troups during the First World War, where a cannon was named Rosa. There's a Hungarian version (as Rozsi Lodczba Megyünk) from 1914 by an unknown male choir (Favorite).
Covers:
- 1974:
Vicky Leandros [as Theo, wir fahr'n nach Lodz; hit GER & NL; also in other languages; Vicky's father Leo heard this song in the Austrian TV series Der Brave Soldat Schwejk from 1972]
- 1974:
Hiltonaires [idem]
- 1988:
In America it became Henry, Let's Go To Town, in England Danny, Teach Me To Dance, in France Théo, on va au bal and since 2009 it's the official song to promote tourism in Lodz, Poland.
