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German electronic music gained global influence, with Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream being pioneer groups in this genre. [2][3] The electro and techno scene is internationally popular, namely due to the DJs Paul van Dyk, Scooter and Cascada. Germany hosts many large rock music festivals.
Origins. "Erika" is both a common German female name and the German word for heather. The lyrics and melody of the song were written by Herms Niel, a German composer of marches. The exact year of the song's origin is not known; often the date is given as "about 1930", [3] but this has never been substantiated.
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Song Artist(s) Wks. Year(s) Ref. "Ganz Paris träumt von der Liebe" Caterina Valente and Kurt Edelhagen: 21 1955 [1] "Heimweh" Freddy Quinn 1956 "Cindy, Oh Cindy" Margot Eskens: 1957 "Die Gitarre und das Meer" Freddy Quinn 17 1959 "Rivers of Babylon" Boney M. 1978 [2] "Despacito" Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee: 2017 [3] "Verdammt, ich lieb ...
World War II was the first conflict to take place in the age of electronically distributed music. Many people in the war had a pressing need to be able to listen to the radio and 78-rpm shellac records en masse. By 1940, 96.2% of Northeastern American urban households had radio. The lowest American demographic to embrace mass-distributed music ...
Schlager (German: [ˈʃlaːɡɐ], "hit (s)") [2] is a style of European popular music and radio format generally defined by catchy instrumental accompaniments to vocal pieces of pop music with simple, easygoing, and often sentimental lyrics. Schlager tracks are typically light pop tunes or sweet, sentimental ballads with simple, catchy melodies.
German. Box office. 7.6 million RM (equivalent to 34 million 2021 euros) Wunschkonzert (Request Concert) is a 1940 German drama propaganda film by Eduard von Borsody. [1] After Die große Liebe, it was the most popular film of wartime Germany, reaching the second highest gross.
The "Deutschlandlied" (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃlantˌliːt] ⓘ; "Germany Song"), officially titled "Das Lied der Deutschen" (German: [das ˈliːt deːɐ̯ ˈdɔʏtʃn̩]; "The Song of the Germans"), has been the national anthem of Germany either wholly or in part since 1922, except for a seven-year gap following World War II in West Germany.