The Obernkirchen Children's Choir "Happy Wanderer" on The Ed Sullivan Show

[@jillkjv3816]

Very sweet. I wonder how many of those sweet young teens are still with us? They'd be in their 70's now.

[@TomElvisSmith]

This song charted at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart for the Obernkirchen Children's Choir ten years previous to this performance, in 1954. It was written by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller . In the US, the biggest selling version was by Frank Weir & His Saxophone, Chorus & Orchestra, reaching number 4 in Billboard also in 1954.

[@timkluger9375]

It made number 1 in Australia (that's AustrALia not Austria :) )

[@rustynailmendlesohn8710]

In 2024 at 66 years old I remember watching this as a 6 year old on the B&W TV in our living room back in Chicago. My late Dad was first generation from Germany and he loved this song.😊

[@kristihein1385]

We had their album when I was a child (courtesy of my German immigrant grandparents). This is the first time I've looked for them online -- and of course, here they are. The second side of the album told the story of the Musicians of Bremen (donkey, dog, cat, and rooster).

[@kenq1363]

And the crowd goes wild

[@lonestarfriend]

Very nicely done. And nicely dressed. :)

[@lonestarfriend]

Wonderfully harmonious. :)

[@joey_bonin]

Very nice. The 60s was such a a unique period of time. So much cultural exchange happening in the popular media.

[@kimgordon3695]

The Media calls it : partial hang out since the nixon administration🔺

[@that70sgirl90]

1964... the same year I was born. Makes me wonder where they all went. Happy Wednesday... thank you for sharing! 💖

[@Juliaflo]

Happy 60th next year.

[@that70sgirl90]

@Juliaflo Thank you so much! 💖 When that day comes around in 2024... I will certainly remember your kind birthday wishes! 🕯

[@Bear_58]

This is true talent and entertainment ❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@dannycastillo9892]

Beautiful choirs all well done 🎼 🎶🎶🎶🎶 🎙️

[@barbarak2836]

That was lovely!

[@markuswerner4584]

strange - but somehow nice....................I love the Ed Sulivan Show.................

[@Tif91522]

1964❤ The year of The Beatles❤ The Saint With Roger Moore ❤ What A Wonderful Year💝🌟✨⭐

[@MitchellDormont]

One of my childhood's favorite cute songs; surprised that this is from '64, not the ' 50's.

[@johnnytoobad7785]

I got a real "kick" when I heard this song used in an episode of the Soprano's. (and also the episodes title...) I was told it was my Grandfather's favorite tune... My parents had it on a 78 rpm record. The B-side was in German.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

I once heard this song on an episode of some TV sitcom back in the 1980s or '90s, but I don't remember which show it was. I think it was sung at somebody's funeral, because the song was a favorite of the deceased. I don't recall hearing it on "The Sopranos" though, and my family and I used to watch it every week.

[@johnnytoobad7785]

Season2 Episode 6. @@michaelpalmieri7335

[@6omega2]

God how beautiful.

[@leewilson77]

☺️

[@CapitanFantasma1776]

Great!

[@spencersmith2798]

Fine.

[@troubadour1562]

Beautiful singing. Made me sad to think "How could we have fought with this nation in 2 world wars? They are just like us 😢🇬🇧

[@incog99skd11]

So are the Russians contrary to the press reports.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

I'm sorry to hear that you're so sad because these kids are all Germans and we fought two world wars against their country, but try looking at this from a different perspective. To start with, the kids in this group were born about thirty years after the end of the First World War and maybe two, three, or four years after the conclusion of the Second World War, so they obviously had nothing to do with either of those conflicts. They wouldn't have even been able to join the Hitler Youth corp, which was completely defunct before the births of these singing youngsters. Second, you have to understand the reasons that America and those other countries (England, France, Russia, etc) went to war with Germany twice. In both cases, the Germans had been engaging in imperialistic wars of aggression that threatened the peace of the world as well as the freedom and independence of various countries. Thus, Germany's actions might have endangered the United States too. While the threat posed by Kaiser Willhelm the Second and his royal German soldiers, sailors, airmen, etc, may have been exaggerated, as some historians suggest, it was a different story when it came to Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich, which became one of the most oppressive totalitarian states in world history. Hitler's acts of aggression and imperialism against the various European countries were far worse than what the Kaiser's troops had done a few decades earlier. Hitler's domestic policies were even worse. Nazi Germany was now in a state of terror, with the Storm Troopers, the SS (elite guard), and the Gestapo (Secret Police) running roughshod over the rights of those declared subversive on Hitler's orders, especially the Jews. Entire families were dragged out of their homes, thrown onto railroad boxcars, and shipped off to the concentration camps to be tortured (sometimes under the guise of "medical experiments"), flogged, worked to the point of exhaustion, then executed by firing squads, hanging, slow torture, the gigantic gas chambers (built to resemble public showers), and their corpses disposed of, as if they were nothing. It soon became obvious that the Nazis were bent on world domination, especially when they made alliances with Fascist Italy (ruled by Benito Mussolini), and Imperial Japan, both of whom had some international ambitions of their own, and that the actions of the Axis Powers threatened the idea of freedom and justice themselves. It was inevitable that England, the United States of America, Soviet Russia, Australia, China, and other nations, would declare war on the Axis countries, and defeated them all. After the war, the true extent of German, Italian, and Japanese repression was discovered, especially when Hitler's concentration camps were liberated by the Allied armies, and the world learned about the millions of innocent people who perished in the camps, including six million Jews, how the survivors were barely alive, and how evil the Nazis were! If they had won the war, God only knows what they would have done to the free nations of the world, like England, the U.S., Australia, the South American countries, and so on. So, you can see why it was necessary to engage in two wars with Germany, to protect our liberty and ensure the peace of the world. I'm not saying that all Germans are or were bad, or that they're all or used to be Nazis. Those German children in this video definitely weren't Nazis, because they didn't exist when the Third Reich fell to the Allies, when Hitler committed suicide, when Mussolini was killed by Italian partisans, and when Japan surrendered after having two atomic bombs dropped on it. I'm not trying to glorify war or portray it as the answer to all international problems. I'm just saying that sometimes it's necessary or inevitable. Maybe if all the people of the world would just get together to reconcile their differences, agree to allow all nations to live in peace, freedom, and justice, cooperate with each other to prevent future wars, and work out some way to ensure that no one can ever become a dictator who would try to conquer the world or oppress anybody, and if they would all just cleanse themselves of hatred, violence, greed, prejudice, and selfishness, and fill their hearts and minds with love, kindness, and respect for others, then perhaps war would become just as obsolete and outdated as the horse and wagon. Maybe then, we will finally have peace on earth, and good will to all.

[@leewilson77]

​@@michaelpalmieri7335☺️

[@brendafegley3317]

It wasn’t the people but corupe officials and government.

[@carolinekoen2414]

​Very well said!

[@kimgordon3695]

Halven joy

[@alg11297]

These kids look hypnotized

[@aussiedigger9265]

In Australian Top Charts for 24 weeks although never hit number 1