"LILI MARLENE"
Sir,-In connection with the NZBS Production, "Lili Marlene" which came over the air the other evening, it may be of interest to listeners to know that a copy of the melody of this now famous song was received in Sumner on July 1, 1944. It was posted from 6th Field Ambulance, then with the 8th Army in Africa. It was sung, probably for the first time by a New Zealand audience at the Christchurch community sing at the Civic Theatre on Fridays soon after its arrival, and became very popular. The returned men in the hospitals repeatedly asked for it. There was much difficulty at first in getting the words. The music shops did not know it. Months afterwards, however, they discovered it under the title of "Marlene," and, soon the shop windows were full of copies resurrected from unsaleable stock. With the Civic Organ accompanying, and Norman A. Carson as song-leader, the singing of this number gave much satisfaction to friends and relatives of the lads who had sung it after Rommel’s army had ceased to do so.
G.
F.
(Sumner).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 392, 27 December 1946, Page 5
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184"LILI MARLENE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 392, 27 December 1946, Page 5
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