Two recent uploads by a fellow YouTuber inspired me to 2 further videos from the "Swing from Berlin" series - one featuring singer/bandleader Horst Winter and one featuring bandleader Willy Berking.

Horst Winter (1914 - 2001) not only played the clarinet but wasalso a vocalist for a number of orchestras, for example in Willy Berking's band... From 1941 he formed his own band and recorded for the Tempo label... Usually he combined one well known track with a lesser known jazzy title (often pushing the limit of what was acceptable in the eyes of the Reichsmusikkammer). He pushed the enveloppe too far when his version of "Joseph! Joseph! / Sie will nicht Blumen und nicht Schokolade"
was banned. In 1943 he was drafted into the army and became a prisoner of war in France. He settled in Vienna, where he founded the "Wiener Tanzorchester" in 1946. From 1950 onwards he conducted his "Horst Winter Tanzorchester". He went on numerous tours (even to the USA) and was the recipient of many awards. He remained active until a few months before his death.

The song presented here is called "Lass' dein Herz bei mir zurück" (lit. Leave your heart with me) from the 1943 movie "Ein Mann mit Grundsätzen" (A man of principles?) starring Elfie Mayerhorfer and Hans Söhnker. This version is not a swing-style rendition but Horst Winter certainly is part of the era...
A swinging version by Michael Jary and his orchestra with Horst Winter as the featured singer can be found in the Headhunter131 channel.

The version presented today is an intimate one recorded for Polydor in 1943. The accompanying orchestra is not meantioned on this post-war pressing (with barely readable label)....

The theme of the video is life around 1943/44 combined with publicity for increasingly rare "everyday" products taken from the last issue of "Filmwelt" magazine, published 3 March 1943. Combined with this fine rendition by Horst Winter it is a bitter-sweet video...

About the record:

Polydor 47936B / mx. ST 1825

Post-war presssing.

Transferred without modification.

Sound equipment used :
Ortophon om78 Cartridge & Stylus
Turntable : Stanton T.90
TerraTec 78RPM Phono Pre-amp

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