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The Final Foreword

The First-Step & Last-Waltz Album [Editorial]

Zeitreise von der „Beat-Kultur“ der 60-er Jahre mit der ersten Improved-Single „It Is You“, zum Farewell-Song aus dem dritten Jahrtausend.- Dazwischen Filmmusik für Michael Verhoevens „Engelchen macht weiter...“, die „Krempoli“-Serie und die „Komissar“-Folge „Dr. Meinhardts trauriges Ende“. Aber auch die bislang unbekanntere Ballade vom „Policeman“ sei geneigten Ohren anempfohlen.

        Titel
Hörprobe
Songtext
1) 
It Is You
2) 
We Are Alone
3) 
Marvin Is Dead
4) 
Sing Your Song
5) 
Love Is A Natural Thing
6) 
Hoppe Reiter
7) 
Don´t Know Baby If You Are Safe
8) 
Leave This Lesbian World
9) 
Old Captain Cook
10) 
Don´t You Feel Any Pain
11) 
I´m Exhausted
12) 
Offering A Highly Sophisticated Way To Ride
13) 
Oedipus
14) 
Where Will The Salmon Spawn
15) 
Krempoli Tune
16) 
Down The Dusty Road
17) 
Mexican Hat
18) 
Are You Kidding
19) Return To Fender  
20) Le Fleuve Tranquille  
21) The Policeman
22) The Very Last Waltz

Marvin Is Dead

There the leading car went into a skid
Ramming that telegraph pole
Marvin always knew whatever he did
Yet the transmission shaft broke

Oh he was trapped in his car
When all the full tanks exploded at a blow
God when all the full tanks exploded at a blow

But I won´t sit asking who is to blame
Marvin did know it´s a game
Racing´s just the sort of beautiful thing
Where you may lose or may win
Where you may lose or may win

Music written by Axel Linstädt (except Tracks 1 and 2 by
Axel Linstädt and Johnny Fickert)
Lyrics by Bernd Linstädt

Johnny Fickert: voc., altosax, flute, Hammond organ, rhythm-guitar, percussion

Axel Linstädt: guitars, keyboards, ocarina, soprano and alto recorders, voc.

Uli Ruppert: bass, voc.

Rolf Gröschner: drums

Thanks to the brass and the strings

Recorded in Munich at Polydor Studios, 1966 (tracks 1 and 2), Trixi Studios, 1969 (tracks 3 and 4),
Union Studios, 1969 (tracks 5-12), 1979 (tracks 13 and 14),
1971 (track 21)
Bavaria Studios 1973 (tracks 15-20)
Track 22: december 2002, recorded by
Jörg Scheuermann, somewhere over the rainbow

Lincensed by Improved Sound Limited
Digital remastering: Jörg Scheuermann
Cover picture: Pamela Prechtl

 

 

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