I Remember Germany is a series of folk music compilations released by Fiesta Records in the early 1960s. The record label was established by Jose Morand in New York in 1952 and specialized in international music, in particular from Continental Europe and Latin America. Their I Remember… series also covered music from other countries. There were at least eleven volumes in the Germany subseries alone. Shown here is a selection of eight album covers.
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Vol. 2 has a view into Segringerstraße in the historic town of Dinkelsbühl. The title is shown in red caps from Twentieth Century Ultrabold Extended. “Volume 2” probably is in the regular-wide Bold style from the same family (or Futura, on which it is based on). The yellow lines at the bottom left are set in two weights of Venus Extended. [More info on Discogs]
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Vol. 7 is an exception in that it focuses on a single artist, Willy Schneider (1905–1989), who “recorded more than 800 records in the ‘Rhine and wine’ genre.” The script is Filmotype Latin.
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On the cover of vol. 9, we get to see young folks in traditional costume, drinking wine somewhere above the Rhine. The script is Filmotype York. [More info on Discogs]
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It’s definitely a quite specific and stereotypical image of Germany, seen from a mid-20th century U.S. perspective, and through rose-colored (or alcohol-clouded) glasses. Geographically, it’s limited to the southern parts of (post-WWII) West Germany. All of the shown places are either inside the American occupation zone, or, like Bacharach, just outside on the other bank of the Rhine. These “memories” are likely informed by U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany during and after the war, but omitting all of the horrors of the (then) recent history.
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I remember Germany different :)
It’s definitely a quite specific and stereotypical image of Germany, seen from a mid-20th century U.S. perspective, and through rose-colored (or alcohol-clouded) glasses. Geographically, it’s limited to the southern parts of (post-WWII) West Germany. All of the shown places are either inside the American occupation zone, or, like Bacharach, just outside on the other bank of the Rhine. These “memories” are likely informed by U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany during and after the war, but omitting all of the horrors of the (then) recent history.