Comedian Harmonists & Lewis Ruth Orch. - Wenn ich einmal traurig bin, 1932

Orchester Lewis Ruth (Ludwig Rüth) mit Refraingesang (Comedian Harmonists) – Wenn ich einmal traurig bin (When I’m Sad Sometimes), Foxtrott a.d. Tonfilm “Famile Hannemann” (Reisfeld, Marbot) HMV 1932 (Germany)

NOTE: German bandleader Lewis RUTH (né Ludwig Rüth in 1889 in Landau, Germany – d. 1941 in Durban, South Africa) studied in Munich at the Royal Academy of Music (flute, composition and conducting) and at the University of Munich (philosophy, medicine and musicology). He had his first jobs as a flutist and conductor in the Operas in Stuttgart, Leipzig and Munich, when in 1914 he was conscripted as a soldier in the First World War. The army used him as an orchestra leader. After the war, Rüth first led the symphony orchestra in Saarland, yet in 1925 he traveled to Berlin where he founded the The Lewis Ruth Band, with him as a saxophonist. He played the dance music and especially jazz, which explains the Anglicization of his name to Lewis Ruth. His band had a great success and started working with a composer and conductor Theo Mackeben, who was a musical director of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill theatre productions. In 1929 Ludwig Rüth was invited to play at the premiere of the Threepenny Opera, which brought him at once into the elite group of the best dance bands in Germany. Between 1928 and 1937 under the name of Lewis Ruth or Ludwig Rüth, he recorded for the Electrola company about 400 records. For a long time he also worked as conductor in the prestigious Berlin Metropol-Theater. Because Ludwig Rüth (after the separation from his wife) lived together with the Jewess Vera Cohn-Moser, from 1933 he was under observation by the NSDAP, which finally led to his emigration in 1937 to South Africa. Rüth left the bandleading of his band to a popular German composer Hans Carste, with whom he had collaborated before. In Durban, he tried to start a new music career, yet he was boycotted by a German community living in South Africa which was mostly sympathetic to Hitler. In 1940, Ludwig Rüth joined the British army in South Africa and a year later, he drowned while swimming in Durban (his date of death is sometimes named as 1947).

The COMEDIAN HARMONISTS male vocal ensemble is a legendary German revelers band, founded in Berlin in 1927 to become the most popular German a capella group, until 1934, when they become banned by the NSDAP government because three of them were Jewish.

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