"Hamburg - Sea View", a small collection of historical recordings from 1932 to 1949, with songs that bear witness to a time when the largest part of Hamburg could still live from seafaring. When you hear these songs, it seems almost as if Hamburg would consist only of St. Pauli and the port, and as if all Hamburger "sea dogs" and "fish Women". That was not quite right so earlier, but somehow stands in Hamburg but a maritime character out proudly defies the fact that one out of sheer harbor and ocean liner sea garnicht looks. And perhaps why many lives "Hamburg Songs" held a melancholy wanderlust that still affect us today. And so it is well aware that in many a song Hamburg is no mention of it and still finds convinced: There is a Hamburg-song. "Dear Mummy, shall not cry" is a fine example and sung by Hans Albers gets the same finding something irrefutable. And if singing Hans Albers "Hein Mück from Bremerhaven," we suspect that Hamburg can not be far. The "Hamburg-Lieder" on this CD represent the audience but even tougher samples, for example, when August Batzem claimed in flawless Kölsch to have been in Hamburg and Tino Rossi in unaccented French starts from St. Pauli lanterns to swarm. You hear then benevolent to wonder at when initially estimated the true-Hamburg seems to distance with Richard Germer "Only no water" of it all. Let's stay with the Three Travellers together happily, because "there is a sailing ship in the harbor, the beautiful, slim Dorothee in Hamburg!"
