Lola (In den Schatten dunkler Lauben...)

[Alarm_Uboat]

[Topic title corrected by the host, I. Ž.]

I managed to find several versions of this song:

- SA-Chor mit Orchester (Telefunken) - all 5 stanzas are recorded
- Musikkorps der SS-Standarte 15 (Electrola) - all 5 stanzas are recorded
- Blasorchester Carl Woitschach (Gloria) - recorded 4 stanzas
- Blasorchester Carl Woitschach (Kristall) - recorded 4 stanzas
- Musikkorps der Leibstandarte (Grammophon) - recorded 4 stanzas

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Source: Sturm- und Kampflieder für Front und Heimat

[Ivan Ž.]

Before searching Mr Kaiser's website, always first check Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. They have a huge amount of recordings listed and they quoted original record label credits, unlike Mr Kaiser, who had a habit of adding info and guesswork that often turned out to be wrong. So you'll reduce the possibility of copying and spreading misinformation tremendously. Only after checking the library catalogue, check Mr Kaiser's lists and see if he has something they don't.

Like her more popular "sisters" - "Lore", "Lisa" and "Annemarie" (all hugely popular in 1933) - "Lola" was also recorded by all sorts of artists, besides the political ones who used them as their own, and was a cover of an old song. But being "reborn" in 1934 and intended for the SA and HJ, it never reached the same popularity as the other three "girls" (the popularity of the SA was significantly reduced after the "Night of the Long Knives", mid-1934, and there was less need to record politically-motivated songs a year after taking over the power; plus, it was a musically weaker song).

The opening line that was typically used in the recordings of "Lola" was "In den Schatten dunkler Lauben". It was also used in official scores. "In des Gartens dunkler Laube", although sometimes printed under the title "Lola" (as seen above), was actually more common for the old versions of the song, where the girl's name was Ida, Lina, Minna...

[Alarm_Uboat]

Thank you very much!

[Ivan Ž.]

all 5 stanzas are recorded

According to the 1935 songbook "Wanderlust", which got the lyrics from the original publisher, Uhland's version of "Lola" had 6 stanzas.

Besides (and possibly even before) Uhland, also covering the old song "In des Gartens dunkler Laube" as "Lola" in 1934 were Hans Schlechtweg (In des Waldes dunkler Laube...) and Bernhard Kutsch (In den Schatten dunkler Lauben...). I never had the time to research what exactly Uhland changed in the old song and whether he truly should have been credited as the author of "Lola", as he was, or merely as its arranger.

[Alarm_Uboat]

Thank you Ivan for correcting me, I'm not as knowledgeable as you are, but I'm trying to collect all the information I find

[Ivan Ž.]

For numbers of verses, check the extreme right column at Deutsches Lied. Make sure the source songbooks pre-date 1945. Check the songbooks and their sources. And remember that there are a lot of songbooks that the website still doesn't have, so the info there isn't definite.

My knowledge on German military music is becoming rustier each year, since my primary interest went in a different direction. And I'm not getting any younger either. So for the majority of my replies in the recent years I had to do a brand new research, often spending hours on each reply. And that's a lot of time and energy that I don't really have anymore to spare. Additionally, I'm spending time on re-researching other people's sloppy research and correcting their errors. That's why I keep linking useful sources for everyone, which I use myself, so that they could do the research themselves and properly. But one needs to have patience and be thorough when browsing through sources. And most people are still lazy to do so.

For those interested in a non-"Lola" recording of "In des Gartens dunkler Laube", a short one, about a "Lina", can be found in "Soldatenlieder-Potpourri" by Lützow, 1935, on the CD Großdeutschland. In my opinion, it tops all recordings of "Lola", even though it's an a-capella performance.