- Na Golici (Trompeten-Echo)
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"Na Golici (Trompeten-Echo)" Single by Ansambel bratov Avsenik (Oberkrainer) from the album Slowenische Bauerntanz Released 1953 (written) Format 7" vinyl Recorded 1955 Genre folk, polka Length 2:34 Label Telefunken Records Writer(s) Slavko Avsenik, Vilko Ovsenik Producer Fred Rauch "Na Golici" (german title:"Trompeten-Echo") is a 1953 slovenian polka song performed by Slovenian folk band Ansambel bratov Avsenik.
Music was written by slovenian Slavko Avsenik and arranged by his brother, composer Vilko Ovsenik. In 1955[1] this song was first time recorded in studio on a small four track album called Slowenische Bauerntanz and released by Telefunken Records. It's the most played instrumental tune ever and second overall. This song has more than 600 covers from all over the world[2].
History and recording
1953 - In this year Slavko Avsenik composed a polka "Na Golici" (Trompeten-Echo) at Tonosa company in Ljubljana where he was still working as a knitter. When he heard a rhythm of the knitting machine he was working at, he came up with the melody for "Na Golici/Trompeten-Echo" and quickly wrote it on a napkin. He wrote music on this napkin his own way, because he didn't know the music notes. That's how this tune was created. Right after that he asked his brother Vilko Ovsenik, a composer, to write it down in music notes and to arranged it. This tune was already performed in public by "Slavko Avsenik Trio", a band under this name which was founded this year. But this song still wasn't recorded in studio or released on any kind of music format.
1955 - The musicians were heard at the Radio Celje by Fred Rauch, who was at the time editor of Bavarian radio in Munich and was on vacation at Wőrther Lake, Austria. He was enthusiastic by their originality. That's why he went to the Carinthian radio, borrowed the tapes and little later they performed on his show. At the time the band was called Gorenjski kvintet, but for the German market their name was changed into the Oberkrainer Quintett. With the German publishing house Telefunken, Avsenik and his for the first recorded this song in studio on a vynil. And it was released on their small album with four songs on it: Na Golici, Spomin, Praznovanje na deželi and Veseli svatje.
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Categories:- 1953 singles
- Folk songs
- Slovenian songs
- Number-one singles in Switzerland
- Number-one singles in Germany
- Number-one singles in Austria
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