Soldaten - Kameraden [from the film of the same name]

[stngstng]

[Topic entitled "Please help to identify the lied(song) from the Die Deutsche Wochenschau(1941) newsreel" renamed by the host, Ivan Ž.]

Hello all
Please help me to identify the song name from the Die Deutsche Wochenschau newsreel (1941). Is there a full version of this song available or it's just a short music insert for the DDW newsreel?
Link (short video's cut): https://vimeo.com/730074836
Thanks!

[Ivan Ž.]

Hello and

It is a radio recording of Küssel & Stoffregen's song "Soldaten - Kameraden", from the 1936 movie of the same name. It was one of the most successful marching tunes of the Third Reich era, which was repopularised during WWII as well (see also this post). I'm sure you'll find some full recordings of the piece online (although only the commercial ones, not the radio tracks).

Example (instrumental):


Cheers,
Ivan

[stngstng]

Thanks! This is a great instumental march! I am big fan of a marches from the "Third Reich" and their march songs. This find will be added into my favorites list for sure, However, does "Soldaten - Kameraden" have a full version with vocals?

[Ivan Ž.]

You're welcome!

Listed below are the commercial recordings of the piece (i.e. radio recordings excluded).

22.01.1936 for Lindström, by Blasorchester Carl Woitschach, vocals by Die Metropol-Vokalisten
__.01.1936 for Grammophon, by Musikkorps der Leibstandarte-SS "Adolf Hitler", vocals by a male chorus
__.02.1936 for Electrola, by Blasorchester Bruno Seidler-Winkler, vocals by a male chorus
__.03.1936 for Kristall, by Musikkorps der Leibstandarte-SS "Adolf Hitler", vocals by a male chorus
__.04.1937 for Grammophon, by Musikkorps des Infanterie-Lehr-Bataillons (instrumental)

__.09.1939 for Electrola, by Blasorchester Bruno Seidler-Winkler, vocals by a male chorus (title: "Der Führer hat gerufen")
__.__.1939 for Clangor, by I. Musikkorps des Infanterie-Regiments "Großdeutschland" (instrumental)
19.02.1940 for Telefunken, by Stabsmusikkorps des Wachbataillons der Luftwaffe, Berlin (instrumental)
__.__.1941 for Tempo, by Musikkorps des Regiments "General Göring", vocals by a male chorus

I believe some of them can be found online (google "Soldaten Kameraden" combined with "Musikkorps", "Blasorchester" etc.).

Cheers,
Ivan

[stngstng]

Thanks again.
I've found the version with vocals ("Der Führer hat gerufen"). However, it sounds quite different when it compared to the DDW newsreel. It looks like a special shortened version (with more 'powerful' vocals) was recorded for the DDW newsreel(s). And the full DDW's version simply doesn't exist.

P.S.Küssel is great music author. For an example, I did not know that he also applied his talent to the "Lied der Sturmartilerie" which is one of my favorite Third Reich's era songs

[Ivan Ž.]

As I wrote in my first reply, the recording in the newsreel is a radio recording (see also this post). The radio recordings were top-notch and typically more powerful than the tracks released on commercial records, being some of the main propaganda tools, made for radio broadcasts and newsreels (i.e. for influencing the masses). Unlike in the commercial recordings, where the war propaganda tunes were most commonly sang by small vocal groups (a quintet, quartet or terzet), the radio recordings of such tunes usually featured one or two large (male) opera choirs, accompanied by one or more large orchestras, which made them sound truly impressive.

The radio recording or recordings of "Soldaten - Kameraden" may not be known today, but that doesn't mean that they won't resurface at some point, from someone's private collection (it seems that the German Radio Archive doesn't have any). Unfortunately, being non-commercial (i.e. not mass-produced), German radio recordings remain very rare and hard to find (and extremely expensive as well). Nevertheless, once in a while, they do appear on the market.

Küssel was indeed a talented (film) composer and author of several movie hits, the biggest of which he created together with lyricist Stoffregen: "Soldaten - Kameraden" (1936), "Kameraden auf See" (1938) and "Flieger sind Sieger" (from "D III 88", 1939).

Cheers,
Ivan

[Stravaiger]

..."Soldaten - Kameraden"...

....nice to see when the songcard mentions a film that it can relate to....

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