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"O mein Papa" is a nostalgic German song, originally as related by a young woman remembering her beloved, once-famous clown father. It was written by Swiss composer Paul Burkhard in 1939 for the musical Der schwarze Hecht [] (The Black Pike), reproduced in 1950 as Das Feuerwerk (The Firework) to a libretto by Erik Charell, Jürg Amstein, and Robert Gilbert.
Probably his most famous artistic creation was the song "O mein Papa" ("Oh! My Pa-Pa") about the death of a beloved clown-father, written for the musical Der schwarze Hecht (re-issued in 1950 as Das Feuerwerk) that premiered in April 1939. The song rose to #1 on the Sheet Music Chart and stayed in the chart for 26 weeks.
The song O mein Papa became an international hit. In the 1950s, Charell created a stage version of Der Kongreß tanzt , which was performed in France, but the French public was not enthusiastic. His two big film productions were The White Horse Inn with Nazi operetta star Johannes Heesters in 1952, and Fireworks with Lilli Palmer and the young ...
"If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" ("Hymne à l'amour," original lyrics by Édith Piaf) "The Little Shoemaker" based on the French song "Le petit cordonnier", with Turner and Nathan Korb. "Mama" (with Turner) "Oh! My Pa-Pa" based on the German song "O Mein Papa" by Paul Burkhard, under the pseudonym "John Sexton" (with Turner) "La Seine"
He would usually assign a song to Parsons and when the latter was finished, suggest some changes. The credits for the English lyrics would then be given as "John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons". The words of " Smile " to the music of Charlie Chaplin , was written at the Peter Maurice Music Company office on Denmark Street , London in 1954.
German pop songs (25 C, 5 P) ... O. O mein Papa; On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (song) On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn) R. Ra-Ta-Ta (Chris Juwens song)
The lullaby "Mother / Oh Mein Papa" is an interpretation of the German song "O mein Papa" with words by Siouxsie. Phil Sutcliffe called it "a raw wound of a song offered by Siouxsie from her own life and surely shared and picked and scratched at by everyone who hears it". [14]
Rosa Mina Schärer (3 March 1924 – 24 March 2018), [1] [2] known by her stage name Lys Assia, was a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.Assia was born in Rupperswil, Aargau, and began her stage career as a dancer, but changed to singing in 1940 where she met her first musical success in 1950 with "O mein Papa".