ACH, LIEBER SCHAFFNER
Created on 17/05/2021Latest update on 23/12/2025
Artist: Lorens Carl
Author: Paul Lincke/Heinz Bolten-Baeckers
Label: Columbia
Year: 1890
Published as Komischer Solovortrag. Became Paul Lincke's first Schlager. See also Berliner Luft, Glühwürmchen Idyll and Indra Walzer. Schaffner means train conductor in German.
Covers:
- 1912:
Beka London Orch. [as Ach Lieber Schaffner for Beka Grand]
- 1931:
Norah Blaney [Music Hall hit as Oh! Mr. Porter; lyrics (from 1892): George Le Brunn]
- 1966:
Herman's Hermits [idem]
In the German original someone thinks he's traveling to Berlin but ends up in Amsterdam, in the English version a girl bound for Birmingham takes the wrong train (Herman's Hermits' destination was Liverpool and Manchester). Oh! Mr. Porter was mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses and became a film in 1937.
