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Northern facade of the Hofbräuhaus am Platzl. A band performing at the Hofbräuhaus. "In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus" (German for "There's a Hofbräuhaus in Munich") is the title of the Hofbräuhaus-Lied ("Hofbräuhaus song") composed in 1935, which is today one of the best known drinking songs throughout the world.
An 18th century drinking song. A drinking song is a song that is sung before or during alcohol consumption. Most drinking songs are folk songs or commercium songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music. In Germany, drinking songs are called Trinklieder.
It was claimed many times that the song was written in the country where it had just become a hit. TIME wrote that "Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it."
"Im schwarzen Walfisch zu Askalon" ("In the Black Whale of Ascalon") is a popular academic commercium song. It was known as a beer-drinking song in many German speaking ancient universities. Joseph Victor von Scheffel provided the lyrics under the title Altassyrisch (Old Assyrian) 1854, the melody is from 1783 or earlier. [1]
Drinking songs are songs meant to be sung while drinking alcohol, often in groups. See also Category:Songs about alcohol , which includes songs whose main topic is alcohol. Pages in category "Drinking songs"
The title of the song states a reason for drinking beer while you are still alive. The song in German is "Im Himmel gibt's kein Bier", in Spanish, "En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza". [ 1 ] It was originally composed as a movie score for the film Die Fischerin vom Bodensee , 1956, by Ernst Neubach and Ralph Maria Siegel. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Songs about alcohol" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 352 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
"Must Be Santa" is a Christmas song written by Hal Moore and Bill Fredericks [1] and first released in November 1960 by Mitch Miller on Columbia 41814 (45 rpm). [2] A cover version by Tommy Steele reached Number 40 on the UK Singles Chart a year later. [3]