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Carl Weismann (20. juni 1906 – 30. maj 1999) var en dansk bioakustiker og ornitolog. I 1950'erne og 1970'erne opnåede Weismann stor succes med singlerne "Oh! Susanna" (1955) og "Jingle Bells" (1971), der blev indspillet med optagelser af gøende hunde, og udgivet under navnet Don Charles presents The Singing Dogs. "Jingle Bells" opnåede således en førsteplads på den amerikanske Billboard Hot 100 i 1972, hvilket gør Weismann til den eneste danske artist til at ligge nummer ét på hitlisten. Samlet nåede singlerne fra The Singing Dogs-udgivelserne et salg på 1,5 millioner eksemplarer på verdensplan.
www.the-discographer.dk/label/weismann-disko.pdf
http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/the%20singing%20dogs%20(medley)
Infomedia "Popjubilæum: De syngende hunde" "Juledrik: Glem alt om bilnøglerne"
De syngende hunde
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Bottom row: King, Caesar
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, fra pladeselskabet Metronome, kontaktede Weismann for at erhverve sig rettighederne til indspilningerne med henblik på udgivelse. Fabricius-Bjerre fik derefter kontakt til det amerikanske pladseslskab RCA.[1] Den første udgivelse var vinyl-singlen med sangene "Oh! Susanna" (oprindeligt af Stephen Foster), og et medley bestående af sangene "Pat-A-Cake", "Three Blind Mice" og "Jingle Bells". For at overbevise pladekøberne om, at optagelserne skulle stamme fra hunde der var dresseret til at synge (og ikke fra et sammenklip af mange optagelser), blev der trykt annoncer med billeder af fem hunde; schæferne Caesar og King, foxterrierne Pearl og Pussy, og pudlen Dolly. Desuden blev pladen udgivet under titlen Don Charles presents The Singing Dogs.[1]
The Singing Dogs was a musical recording project under whose name two 45rpm singles were released in the 1950s.
The idea for the Singing Dogs came from Don Charles, a record producer working in Copenhagen, Denmark (not the same person as an English record producer also named Don Charles).[2] He made recordings of five dogs barking (their names were Dolly, Pearl, Pussy, Caesar, and King), spliced them on reel-to-reel tape, and arranged the pitches to the tune of the Stephen Foster song "Oh! Susanna". This was eventually released by RCA Victor as the A-side on a 7" single, with the B-side a medley of "Pat-a-Cake", "Three Blind Mice", and "Jingle Bells". The novelty record became a hit, reaching #22 on the US Billboard Pop Singles chart.[2] The disc eventually sold over half a million copies.[3] In 1956, the troupe of dogs (with a fifth member, Pussy) were again recorded, yielding the single "Hot Dog Rock 'n Roll" b/w "Hot Dog Boogie". This recording is listed as being "directed" by Carl Weismann.
In 1973 RCA reissued "Jingle Bells" as a single, becoming a Christmas hit on virtually every radio format, since then the track has received frequent media exposure during the Christmas and holiday season although it appears its fame and popularity peaked in the 1970s.
Kilder
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]- ^ a b Travn, Danni (2014). Bent Fabricius-Bjerre - en biografi. Gyldendal. ISBN 9788702160550.
{{cite book}}: Ukendt parameter|month=ignoreret (hjælp) - ^ a b Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Singles 1955-2008. Record Research, Milwaukee, WI, 2009.
- ^ "The Caroling Dogs of Copenhagen". Life, December 19, 1955.
Eksterne henvisninger
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]- Wildlife recordings of Carl Weismann - streamed audio from The British Library