Leotaurus1975's video: Drei Sterne sah ich scheinen Eine Frau wird erst sch n Mimi Thoma Wilfried Kr ger 1938

Today’s video features two songs from Zarah Leander’s 1938 melodrama “Heimat” (“Home”). “Drei Sterne sah ich scheinen” was sung by Leander in the opening credits. The risqué “Eine Frau wird erst schön durch die Liebe” is a song that remained on Zarah Leander’s repertoire throughout her career. Besides these songs which were composed by Theo Mackeben, Leander also performed works by Glück and Bach. The singer featured in the video is Mimi Thoma (1909-1968) who was a popular singer in 1930s and early 1940s. She recorded mostly and extensively for Deutsche Grammophon/Polydor between 1935 and 1948 and was often heard on the radio. Mimi Thoma specialised in sentimental songs about love - both happy and unhappy. Her best known recording is probably her version of the classic « Mamatschi » which was featured in “Schindler’s List”. Thoma also recorded a number of Zarah Leander songs. Her voice is obviously no match for Leander’s and is at times rather unstable - especially when singing “serious” songs. However to Thoma’s credit she does not try to imitate Leander’s voice - something other singers who performed her songs did frequently. In my opinion Thoma’s better recordings are “Du - du gehst an mir vorbei”, “Schön ist die Zeit der ersten Liebe”, “Wer weiss von uns was morgen ist?” and “Michael”. The orchestra on the featured record is conducted by Georg Haentzschel - famous for composing the music for the 1943 Agfacolor extravaganza “Münchausen”. About the record : Grammophon 47206 A / mx. 7730 1/2 GR - 47 206 B / 7731 1/2 GR Berlin, 13.04.1938 The video also features a crystal clear instrumental version of “Eine Frau wird erst schön durch Liebe” recorded by Wilfried Krüger for Imperial. It is the flip side to his recording of “Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt”. About the record : Imperial 17097 /mx. KC 26604 Berlin, 1938 The video features items related to the movie “Heimat”.