Personnel:
Erwin Bootz (piano), Ari Leschnikoff (1st tenor), Alfred Gruner (2nd tenor), Herbert Imlau (baritone), Fred Kassen (tenor buffo), Robert Biberti (bass).
A mx: ORA 2023; recorded Berlin, May 13, 1937.
B mx: ORA 2152; recorded Berlin, June 28, 1937.
Hello, also a nice recording by the Comedian Harmonists. They changed the name from Comedian Harmonists into Das Meistersextett in 1935, because at that time, the three Jewish band members had to leave the group, and the name Comedian Harmonists, sounding English, was forbidden during the Third Reich administration. Adolf Hitler declared that kind of music, like jazz by colored or Jewish people, a so-called degenerated form of art.
So that was the sad part of the history. In the 1970s the historic recordings were re-released on vinyl long play sets. In 1998 a famous movie about the formation of the Comedian Harmonists placed that fine music into the mind of the younger people.