MUSS I' DENN ZUM STÄDTELE HINAUS
Created on 02/06/2008Latest update on 15/10/2024
Artist: Theodore Pusinelli & Hackert
Author: Heinrich Wagner/Friedrich Silcher
Label: Zonophone
Year: 1901
On clarinet. German folk song from Schwaben, picked up by Elvis during his service years. First verse: trad. Second and third verse added by Tübinger student Heinrich Wagner (1824). Friedrich Silcher first collected it in his songbook Volkslieder für 4 Männerstimmen (1825).
Covers:
- 1902:
Oskar Wagner [on Brown Wax Cylinder]
- 1928:
- 1931:
Comedian Harmonists [see: Guter Mond du gehst so stille]
- 1953:
Chris Howland [German speaking Englishman; source of Elvis' curiosity]
- 1960:
Elvis Presley [in film G.I. Blues as Wooden Heart; n°1 UK, B & GER of course]
- 1961:
Gus Backus [n°2 GER]
- 1961:
Joe Dowell [n°1 US; grabbing the opportunity left by RCA's reluctance to release it on Elvis as a single]
- 1961:
Ria Valk [as Afscheid Van Een Soldaat]
- 1961:
Tino Rossi [as Qu'il est doux]
- 1962:
Chubby Checker [as Twist Mit Mir]
- 1965:
Toon Hermans [in his German show]
- 1965:
Familie Von Trapp [in film The Sound Of Music]
- 1970s:
John Holt [as Wooden Heart; reggae version]
- 1974:
Brigitte [as Ons Tentje Aan Het Strand]
- 1978:
- 1980s:
Tom Petty [as Wooden Heart]
- 1981:
Klaus Doldinger [in film Das Boot]
- 1990:
Sam Gooris [as Als Ik Zing]
- 1990:
Nanci Griffith & The Blue Moon Orch. [on LP The Last Temptation Of Elvis]
- 1995:
Doctor Ammondt [as Cor Ligneum on cd Elvis Songs Sung In Latin]
- 1997:
- 2000:
Billy Swan [in the Sun Studio]
