Randy Newman - 12 In Germany Before The War (Jazz Open 06) video free download

Bren Kelly

the song is about Peter Kurten .."the vampire of Dusseldof",,as he was known..a serial killer...the tune is as creepy as fuck..but its amazing.!!

Leolani

The song is about ADOLF HITLER destroying Europe and all it's people during WW2

Kevin Moberg

"They defame the general population." Isn't this precisely what you're doing here on YouTube, sir?

Dawn Jype

Randy sings a bit crooked and shys away from that melody on purpose. Hell the tune has a pretty crooked narrator. It makes sense from an artists point of view.

Jeff Maylor

The song is based on the movie M, by Fritz Lang, who was Jewish. Starring Peter Lorre, who was a Jew. Financed by Jews. And now a song about it by Randy Newman, who is a Jew. The movie has the dark "social criticism" Jews love to thrust upon their host societies. They defame the general population. Tons of movies like this were made in the period by Jews, which is one reason Europeans got so sick of Jews. Jews have conflict everywhere they live. Jews won't accept any responsibility for it

Thomas Andersen

one of the most astonishing songs ever written

Acid O' Philus

I guess he misses the whispering voice. Well you can't make that work when the microphone is on a piano; because it's FUCKING LOUD.

Davyd191292

great song I need a notes ... = ))

sebeer123

dear friend; just feel sad for fuelbasti. he obviously is deaf..

Gumbo Fröhn-Fonebone

heavens! this voice! Randy Newman is allways great. I like him best as Devil in Faust, but he sounds in every single song he did like it was his one and only!

fuelbasti

it has not touched me...is he drunk?

fuelbasti

it has not touched me...

Laurens Naudts

@liamlacey Indeed, a brilliant performance by Lorre (especially his monologue at the end of the movie is very touching), but M was partially based on child murderer Peter Kurten.

ULTRAFRYSK

It only is situated in 1934 to rhyme on before the war. It is based on Kurten, but reflects more on the first year where politically Germany went hauntingly wrong.

harednuta

I'm might be getting the Randy Newman Albums on Friday, if I do I'll upload some of the tracks onto Youtube. As all there seems to be is live performances from him.

MrMystery96

I think this song referneces the Effects about P Kurten, and maybe the man who owned a store was a person who had a daughter who was murdered by him, and maybe her grave was at the rine, and he would visit his daughters grave site, living in a nightmarish life, and would slowly go mad, from losing a daughter who meant so much to him, which explains why the song becomes more dimented and Oddly Major chords at 1:24 . Randy Newman is brilliant, and this song creeps me out, this nightmarish lullaby.

Grafschnitzel

I always thought the murderer would be Adolf Hitler, and the man who owned a store would be a Jew who dreams of escaping from Germany to America. That's why he's thinking of the see. I don't know if it was intended, but to me it's a song about the shoa.

jepz11

@mklambatsea, guess we have a different notion of what fantastic singing sounds like, haha. In Amsterdam they'd say: he sings great, it's just coming out of his gullet that rotten.

mklambatsea

He is a phantastic singer !!!

Nick Buchanan

I think that Kurten's crimes may have 'informed' the song's central character - but the song isn't specifically 'about' anyone. It is a generic murderer and a generic child victim. More chilling is the way the language changes from the distant and objective "The Little Girl" becomes "WE lie beneath the Autumn sky, MY Little golden girl and I." Randy Newman is a true genius - his catalogue is staggering both lyrically and musically.

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