Clara Tabody "Sassa, Ja das Temperament" 

Wundervoll und erstaunlich zugleich! Diese Sequenz enthätl ja so ziemllich was damals im Deutschen Reich nicht gern gesehen, verpönt bzw. sogar verboten war! Musik wie sie rhytmischer und amerikanischer nicht mehr geht, Exotik, Erotik, "verrückte" Tänze, Drum-Solos etc....

Danke fuer's Hochladen! Das Lied ist unvergessen, weil es jedes Jahr von dem Mainzer Hofsaengern zur Fastnacht gesungen wird!

We schoen isch det!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS TYPE OF MUSIC AND ESPECIALY THIS VERSION OF MASKE IN BLAU, IT MAKES ME HAPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ALWAYS :-D :-D :-D

Die Tabody konnte viel besser tanzen als die stämmige Rökk. Sie war viel beweglicher, smooth.

Fine Song Clara! Thanks for Posting! Aloha from Hawaii!

P.S. @ Kanal von hargo - "Sassa" und "Ja, das Temperament" sind übrigens zwei verschiedene Lieder. Die Titel, wie sie hier in der Headline in Anführungszeichen gesetzt sind - das macht dein Eindruck, als handele es sich lediglich um ein Lied.

"Maske in Blau" (Mask in Blue) by Fred Raymond (premiered 1937 at Metropol-Theater Berlin with Clara Tabody) was one of the most successful operettas that was newly composed during the Nazi era under the control of Nazi cultural policy and was by far one of the most successful stage works with German audiences. In the finale, Paul Martin's film staged the happy ending with jazz and a big band orchestra. Without the saxophone, which was banned by Nazi politics, he achieved the same musical result with violins and guitars. The dance scenes were choreograhphed by an ensemble from Spain. Fred Raymond and Paul Martin had both duped the Ministry of Propaganda seemingly. The film also targeted audiences in the German-occupied countries of Europe and the neutral countries of Switzerland and Sweden, where all German films made money until the end of the war. During the war years, 1500 prints were made of every German film, which should also keep the population in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Czech, Ukraine with American styles without American films happy, but also all the millions of people from Europe who had been recruited in Germany to work in the armaments industry. Co-Star of Clara Tabody in this picture is Wolf Albach-Retty, former husband of movie-actress Magda Schneider and father of later international Film-Star Romy Schneider. Like many others the film completely contradicted official cultural policy.

How wonderful. Remember that the clarinet in these times was banned from most orchestras as a typical "jewish" indtrument and that percussion solos in this style were not part of musical performances ("negro intrument"). I love this clip and all those fantastic artists in, f.e. the almost forgotten Clara Tabody. Isn't she sweet. The orchestra performance in the second part ("Ja, das Temp'rament") reminds me on Xavier Cugat performing in the Hollywood Bowl in the 1940s.

Hab ich, glaube ich, noch nie gesehen. Kenne nur die Verfilmung mit Rökk.

Interesting how hyper-exuberant these wartime German musicals tended to be.

Ох, как здорово !!!

Well, of course. Keeping the masses entertained is the key to controlling them.

@cgnbooks The clarinet has never been banned from orchestras (classic or popular). Here on RU-vid you can hear, for example, the wonderful clarinet soli by Franz 'Teddy' Kleindin, recorded for Telefunken and Tempo between 1941 and 1944. Another fine German clarinet player from the period was Benny de Weille (for example 'Schade' with the great Kary Barnet).

im a movie musical film addict no propaganda in this pic but the escapism was use to ease movie audiences at war time plus influencing them no to take a stand against the nazi this wasnt really needed cause they were either for them or too cowardly to do something about it they used movies too escape this fact for the moment

Wie auch immer: an die Rökk kommt sie nicht ran. Die bleibt unübertroffen.

Shouldn't all of those dancing vaqueros have been in the army, on the east front?