Seemann (Lolita song)
| "Seemann (deine Heimat ist das Meer)" | ||||
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| Single by Lolita | ||||
| B-side | "La Luna (Quando La Luna)" (original A-side) |
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| Released | February 1960 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 15 December 1959 (original version) Austrophon-Schallplatten-Studio(Konzerthaus, Vienna) | |||
| Genre | traditional pop | |||
| Length | 2:48 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Writer(s) | Werner Scharfenberger, Fini Busch | |||
| Producer(s) | Gerhard Mendelson | |||
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| "Sailor (Your Home is the Sea)" | ||||
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| Single by Lolita | ||||
| from the album Sailor, "Sailor" and Lolita's Greatest German Hits | ||||
| B-side | "La Luna (Quando La Luna)" | |||
| Released | August 1960 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 15 December 1959 (original version) Austrophon-Schallplatten-Studio (Konzerthaus, Vienna) • track modified 1960 Polydor 1 Studio Hamburg (Rahlstedt) |
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| Genre | traditional pop | |||
| Length | 2:48 | |||
| Label | Kapp | |||
| Writer(s) | Werner Scharfenberger, Fini Busch, Alan Holt (English spoken word section) | |||
| Producer(s) | Gerhard Mendelson | |||
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"Seemann (Deine Heimat ist das Meer)" (English translation "Sailor (Your Home is the Sea)") is a song originally written in German by Werner Scharfenberger () and lyricist Fini Busch () as which via a 1959 German-language recording by Lolita became an international hit in 1960-61.
The song would also be covered in a number of languages, most notably by Petula Clark who would have her first #1 UK hit with the English-language rendering "Sailor" - a rival version by Anne Shelton would be a Top Ten UK hit while concluding her chart career - while Clark would also be afforded international success with both "Sailor" and the French-language rendering "Marin". Other singers for whom "Sailor (Your Home is the Sea)" would afford success as rendered in various languages include Scandinavian singers Towa Carson ("Sjöman" Swedish) and Jan Høiland ("Sjömann" Norwegian); Caterina Valente who would have a Flemish hit with "Zeeman (Je verlangen is de zee)" Dutch - a 1981 hit in the Netherlands for Ciska Peters () - ; and Virginia Lee () whose "Seeman" Afrikaans would be a successful local cover in South Africa.
A schlager-style number, "Sailor" in its original German lyric addresses a seafaring love object with an acceptance of his wanderlust: the English-language version inverts this sentiment turning the song into a plea for the sailor to return. The song is sometimes sung by male vocalists from the point of view of the sailor with the lyrics adjusted accordingly.
Prior to "Seemann (Deine Heimat ist das Meer)", Viennese singer Lolita had based her career on schlager numbers with Latin or Polynesian themes. Making her recording debut in 1957, Lolita had had four Top 20 hits on the German charts notably with "Der Weiße Mond Von Maratonga" (#2/ 1957) her evident career record as in 1958-59 Lolita's seventh through eleventh single releases all peaked outside the Top 20.
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