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ABBA in Deutschland
Sweden's 1970s and 80s international supergroup, ABBA, had a special presence on German TV.ABBA circa 1975Here are several of their performances from that time frame, including their 1974...
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Happy Memorial Day 2018 with the American Bombshells
Today is the day on which Americans celebrate and commemorate our great fighting men, who led the USA to victory twice against the British Empire, twice against Germany and once against Imperial...
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America Going to War With EU - Helene Fischer and VW in Gunsights
We have been largely favorable toward the German/schlager-pop star Helene Fischer, for some time.Would any serious American think a VW Bug to be a race car?In fact, in 2009, we were the first entity in...
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Why Americans of German Heritage Hate Merkel's Germany
We just spoke to a 3rd Generation Lutheran German/American business woman in Chicago today. Her, now, deceased, husband was from the Rhineland in Germany.Frank SinatraShe loves German culture - and...
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ABBA's Agnetha Faltskog with new 2018 Release - Still Lookin' Great at 68
The 1974 Eurovision Music Contest (EMC) winners were from Sweden, and they ABBA, were the first ever from that venue to achieve international pop music stardom.ABBA's Agnetha Faltskog 2018In fact, in...
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Linda Eder - The Superb Austrian American
Most German and Austrian Americans are from a long line of ancestors - usually we're 3rd or 4th or 5th generation.Linda EderBut the superb Austrian/American songstress, Linda Eder is actually the 1st...
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Why Helene Fischer is Destroying German Motherhood
Helene Fischer, the beautiful and wildly talented German pop and schlager music icon, has just turned 35 years old. Helene Fischer and her "boyfriend" of 20 years - No ring, no commitment, no...
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Why Germany is Dying: Ella Endlich
With almost 40% of the United States population being of German blood, you would think that many Americans would care that Germany is dying.Ella Endlich and German FriendBut they don't. It's not our...
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In Your Wildest Dreams - The UK's Moody Blues
Justin Hayward - lead singer of the Moody BluesMost every American kid in the late 60s and 70s and early 1980s loved Britain's Moody Blues.They were truly phenomenal and wonderfully poetic. They had a...
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The Last Day of Summer - Swiss/Canadians Shania Twain and Celine Dion
Most people seem unaware that Canadian-born pop superstar, Shania Twain, is now a citizen and resident of Switzerland.ShaniaTwainIn a rather tumultuous love quadrangle, her husband left her to marry...
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Helene Fischer Still (Sometimes) Reprising Her Schlager Hits
Despite widespread criticism in the Western world for her recent abandonment of her traditional schlager music hits - or perhaps in the face of it - German pop star Helene Fischer, has, in fact, been...
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The Czech Elvis Presley: Jiri Korn - and the Real Elvis Presley
Over the course of our career writing about foreign performers, we have seen more than a few who were promoted as the "Elvis Presley" of their country.Jiri Korn "The Czech Elvis Presley"We remember one...
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Ella Endlich -- Cool and Sedate in 2018
Okay - let's admit it -- over the past 8 years, we have had ambivalent views toward the very beautiful -- and very theatric -- and very weird -- East-German born Euro -- sometimes pop -- and sometimes...
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German/American Marlene Dietrich's La Vie en Rose
Long, Long ago - in a Chicago hi-rise, Far, Far away - I once made love to a Lithuanian-American Chicago girl at her parent's 55th floor hi-rise apartment, which beautifully overlooked Lake...
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Our Last Summer: ABBA
Most people don't think that Americans are romantics.But we are.Here is the American 1st FamilyGood Bye, Lisa.Our Last Summer.Auf Wiedersehen.Here is the Swedish International Supergroup, ABBA with...
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Jackie Evancho: Some Enchanted Evening
Jacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho is an American classical crossover singer, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who gained wide recognition at an early age and, since 2009, has issued a platinum-selling EP...
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Great German/Americans: The Carpenters 70s Pop Superstars
Well with 38% of the American population being of German ethnicity, it should come as no surprise that the 70s American pop-superstars, The Carpenters, were German/Americans.The CarpentersThey smashed...
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Good Bye 2018 - Time to Say Goodbye with England's Sarah Brightman, Andrea...
Andrea Bocelli and Sarah BrightmanHappy New Year from the Chicago Schlager Music Review.Here is a juxtaposition, of the brilliant English classical soprano, Sarah Brightman - singing with Italian blind...
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Peruvian Girls Dig Helene Fischer
If German schlager/pop star Helene Fischer ever decides to tour the Western Hemisphere, we know of at least one country where she is bound to do well.Peru.That Andean country, also host to a long...
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Helene Fischer back when she was cute: Maya the Bee
Our contributor from Sacramento, California - Joe Sebastian - is a big fan of the pre-glitzy, schlager-era, Helene Fischer.Helene Fischer doing classic Euro kids' song, "Maya the Bee" He recently sent...
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Hollywood Legend Doris Day (b. Mary Anne Kappelhoff) dies at 97
Legendary German/American Hollywood star and recording artist, Doris Day died today at her home in Carmel Valley, California. She was 97.Doris DayShe was the Ohio-born granddaughter of 19th century...
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Monagasque Princesses Grace Kelly and Stephanie de Monaco in song
You'd have to search long and hard to find pop music gold record pop performers from the miniscule European municipality of Monaco, but we did just that and we found them - Princess Grace Kelly and her...
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Schlager Star Beatrice Egli Rolling Like an Alpine Avalanche
We first covered Switzerland's Beatrice Egli 5 years ago.Beatrice Egli in 2019Back then she was essentially unknown and won a German TV pop music competition, Deutschland Suche Den Superstar, with,...
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Swiss Schlager Superstar Francine Jordi Back Up - Better Than Ever
Francine Jordi really put Swiss schlager music on the map. And we are proud to have covered this cute and astoundingly talented girl from Worb, Switzerland since way back in 2011.Swiss superstar...
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Belinda Carlisle in Norway
The Southern Californian, Belinda Carlisle, is best remembered for her role as the lead singer for the 1980s sensation - the Go-Gos. It was the first truly successful all-girl band and a mainstay of...
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