If the "14710" in the dead wax is the matrix number, then this is from 1914. It certainly looks and sounds 1914-ish.
"Wiener Burgerkapelle," as closely as I'm able to guess, refers to a Viennese castle (?) orchestra. Or maybe it's literally a "burger" orchestra, one which performed at fast food cafes. The label says "German Orchestra," so I don't know about the Viennese part. Thanks for the help, you say? Sure!
Just call on me when you need a German translator.
Anyway, a really excellent polka performance here--much feeling and bounce. As in, much polka feeling. Anymore, more and more, I think that what we regard as the typical polka sound is German in origin.
To the polka: Fruhlingstag--Polka
Lee
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I guess the folks at Victor did not know the difference between Germany and Austria. But I have no clue what the "burger" means... This band also recorded for Columbia I think.
A "Bürgerkapelle" is a brass band consisting of lay people (Bürger = citizen).
no, no, "bürger" means "citizen" and "kapelle" means "band",so it is a citizenband from vienna (austria).
keep boppin´
marcel
Thanks. I was thinking "city orch.," so "citizen orch." is close. I must remember "burg" from my German-class days. I was never good at German....
I wonder if, in 1914, Australia and Germany were the same place in the popular American mind?
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