Paul Kuhn

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Paul Kuhn (12 March 1928 – 23 September 2013) was a German jazz musician, band leader, singer and pianist. He was the band leader of the SFB Big Band, the orchestra of the Sender Freies Berlin, the TV-Station of West Berlin, part of ARD. He was the conductor of the German entry in the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest.

Kuhn was born the son of a croupier in Wiesbaden. In 1936, at the age of 8, he had a public gig at the 'Funkausstellung' in Berlin, playing the accordion. Some years later, he discovered jazz music (which was frowned upon during the nazi time (1933-1945)). In 1944, he was in Paris and had some gigs to entertain soldiers of the Wehrmacht, who still occupied Paris.

After V-Day (8 May 1945), the USA formed an occupation zone in parts of Germany, amongst them the region around Frankfurt. Kuhn was hired by AFN (American Forces Network), he was live on radio almost every day, alone or with his band. He adopted the style and sound of Glenn Miller (1904-1944).

In the 1950s, he arranged and composed entertainment music. Around 1955, he increasingly launched pop songs, sung and played by himself. During the sixties, more and more west German households bought a TV; music shows, big bands and singers were very successful. In 1968, Kuhn was named head of the entertainment orchestra of Sender Freies Berlin.

In 1980, this band was dissolved and Kuhn moved to Cologne and founded his own orchestra.

Starting in 2000, he toured with Max Greger, Hugo Strasser and the Big Band of SWR (Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk).

At the end of 2011, Kuhn travelled to San Francisco to record a CD (The L.A. Session, with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton). The album was released in 2013.

His most known hits were Der Mann am Klavier (1954), Es gibt kein Bier auf Hawaii (1963) and Die Farbe der Liebe (1958 in the charts).

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There is no beer on Hawaii is a song by Paul Kuhn from 1963 and first appeared on his album The Color of Love .  The song reached # 5 in the German charts. EMI Columbia also released the song as a single, with the song beer, beer, beer is the soul of the piano as a B-side.

The song laments the singer that he can not marry his lover because she wants to spend the honeymoon in Hawaii , where there is no beer and it is too hot. If she wanted to go to Pilsen , he would marry her immediately.

The idea for the song was written by Wolfgang Neukirchner , a friend of Kuhn, who was the administrative judge in Essen and wrote lyrics under a pseudonym.  When asked how he could play such a title as a jazz musician, Kuhn replied:
"Because of the tram." - " How tram? "-" After the war. I had to go by tram. "" Yes? And? "-" But I wanted to drive Cadillac.  "

The song was a great commercial success for Paul Kuhn.

The song was covered by Klaus and Klaus , Tom Angelripper and other musicians .  In the movie Otto - the film is used the song: in a Boeing 747 a whole carnival club sings the song. The children of Golzow are also sung repeatedly. Apparently, it was also particularly popular in the GDR .

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