Advertisement records

[Ivan Ž.]

A topic we haven't mentioned in our Third Reich music discussions so far: advertisement records (Werbeplatten). Unlike today, when most companies advertise their products through short radio or video (often non-musical) commercials, back in the day a number of companies advertised themselves through complete songs, sometimes composed by quite known composers and recorded by popular artists, and released on records. Here are some of them...

[Ivan Ž.]

Whenever I come across a C&A store, I think of this piece



Music by Rudolf Perak, lyrics by K. H. Adam.

Recorded by Erwin Hartung and the Spree-Revellers (probably accompanied by Carl Woitschach's Brass Band) in Berlin, 1936.

[Ivan Ž.]

Another C&A piece, this time a waltz.



Music by Gerhard Winkler, lyrics by K. H. Adam.

Recorded by Erwin Hartung and the Metropol-Vokalisten (accompanied by an unknown dance band) in Berlin, 1936.

[Ivan Ž.]

(Möbel-Hübner = Hübner Furniture)



According to Lotz's list, Erwin Hartung made this recording accompanied by Adalbert Lutter's Dance Band, in Jan. 1936.

The author of the piece remains unknown. The lyrics can be found at the company's website (scroll down to "Der Möbel Hübner Song von 1936").

The march was also recorded as an instrumental in 1935 and released on Telefunken T 5384 (matrix number 50169).

It was re-recorded two decades later, with new lyrics and under the title "Möbel-Hübner-Lied".

[Ivan Ž.]

Another, lesser known, Möbel-Hübner advertisement song:



Author(s) unknown.

Recorded by Erwin Hartung (accompanied by an unknown dance band) in Berlin, 1935.

[GregSingh]

Hilarious!

Do you know of any advertisement records for German tobacco companies?
Since the ban was introduced, even historical ones seemed to disappear from the face of the earth...

Google searches came up with Alva-Zigaretten and to my surprise:
Werbeplatte der Sturm-Zigaretten GmbH Dresden [...] mit dem Musikzug der S.A.-Gruppe Berlin-Brandenburg; Ltg.: Mzf. Johannes Fuhsel
But I am not sure if this was a musical advert, perhaps only a text was spoken before a march was played?

[Ivan Ž.]

Hello, Greg

Yes, Mr Kaiser's full description for this record reads: "Titel: Werbeplatte der Sturm-Zigaretten GmbH in Dresden - Vortrag, mit dem Torgauer Marsch als Hintergrundmusik. Interpret: M-Sprecher, mit dem Musikzug der S.A.-Gruppe Berlin-Brandenburg; Ltg.: Mzf. Johannes Fuhsel. Platten-Firma: S.A.-Platte. Bestell-Nr.: 96. Matrizen-Nr.: R 96." So it's not an advertisement song but a spoken word by an unknown male speaker with a traditional march played in the background, by Fuhsel's band. By the way, as you possibly know, the Sturm Cigarettes were a Nazi (SA) brand.

Note that the most popular photos of the aforementioned Fuhsel's band were issued as cigarette cards, by the Jasmatzi.
This is one of them: viewtopic.php?f=81&t=250948#p1977884 (see another one here, including a scan of the reverse side).

I can't say that I remember coming across many German tobacco advertisement records, but I admit I didn't have much time to research them. I know that Kar-Mitri also had at least one (a copy was sold on eBay recently, for EUR 30). But that record was made in the 1920s, i.e. it pre-dates the Third Reich.

Cheers,
Ivan

[ostland]

May I add the Kienzle Uhrenfabrik demonstration?

https://archive.org/details/193309XxWer ... Klang3m52s

[Ivan Ž.]

Sure, but generally let's keep the focus on musical advertisements

Cheers,
Ivan