Then it is striking that of the nine songs only one - is an original composition by Wader, for all other songs, he draws on foreign templates he takes part or has eingedeutscht - namely "reed in the wind". "Here today, gone tomorrow", "It's time" and "Already so long" are English originals based on "single life and free" is based on a French song, and "Dream of Peace" and Pete Seegers Evergreen Where have all the Flowers Gone Joan Baez sang in the early sixties as "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" respectively. as "Tell me where the flowers are".
Third, the choice of songs very much reflects the zeitgeist of the early eighties again: "Even so long", "Dream of Peace", "life individually and freely", "It's time" and "Tell me where the flowers are" were, so to speak Hymns to the then very active peace movement at a time in which one much stronger than now assumed that songs can change the world - even if Wader himself always denied. Although Hannes Wader would probably not meet again the same song selection for today's performances, he sings as always as a man of conviction, of me at the little baggy for my taste a thousand campfires Tell me where the flowers are even able to convince.
Three songs from his breakthrough album "7 songs" are, and with two of his greatest hits, namely "Here today, gone tomorrow" and "It's time", one of my favorite songs of Hannes Wader and the ME strongest German at all can not go wrong a lot. With "Winter Song" and "Summer Song" he pays his friend and colleague Franz Josef Degenhardt tribute, at the same time he presented for the first time with a pair of opposites a small trick, he again anwandte later, eg in 1991 with "Beautiful is the youth" and "Schön is the age "to" never go back ". Degenhardt's "Summer Song" has always been my favorite song on this LP. For "reed in the wind" Wader built in the respective second line nor an extra chord one who makes the song a little rounder. In the English-language verse of "Already so long" but sounds Waders English so awkward that I am amazed that he has not sung all over again - 1972 in any case he could do better!
One may regret that the record company could not even bring himself in the remastered edition about bonus tracks with only 39 minutes duration. But you can look forward to as well, that have been "plans" albums that were long out of print, ever reprinted. With a sovereign aufspielenden team and great melodies in successful arrangements of this album is a very successful, entertaining drive, even if you have to understand the high proportion of peaceniks songs a little time in context.
