Eric Helgar - Into the unknown distance [In die unbekannte Ferne] (1937)

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Performed by: Eric Helgar

Full Song Title: In die unbekannte Ferne

Recorded in: 1937

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Eric Helgar (born 8 February 1910 – died 14 June 1992) was a popular German singer and film actor of the 1930s. He was married to the actress Lola Müthel.

Eric Helgar was born in Regensburg in 1910 during the tour of his father, the Swiss opera singer Gustl Helgar. He grew up in Zurich. At the age of 17 he moved to live with his grandmother in Berlin. There he met Herbert Grenzebach , a friend of his father's and artistic director of the Ultraphon record company . He said optimistically to Eric: "...if your father has such a great voice, then you should be able to sing too!" And invited him to do a demo recording. Grenzebach was correct in his assumption. Eric could sing and got his first record deal.

Eric Helgar owed his film career primarily to his popularity as a young recording artist and radio performer. The first recordings were made for the Ultraphon label in December 1930 in Berlin, then from 1932 almost exclusively for the newly founded record label of Telefunken . Helgar also worked anonymously for numerous other Berlin record companies until 1935 . His interesting and varied repertoire was carried by a pleasantly clear, expressive and easily recognizable voice and ranged from simple hits to tango and to even more demanding operetta melodies - such as by Ralph Benatzky (Telefunken A 1702, 1934); and with no less demanding chansons and cabaret recordings on big band swing from the late 1930s to the early 1940s.

He made his film debut in 1933 with What Women Dream ; a year later he played the leading role in Der Springer von Pontresina and with the song We Want to be Friends for Life, which he performed in this film , he achieved a popular hit. From the mid-1930s on, Eric Helgar was one of the main vocalists of Adalbert Lutter's popular dance orchestra for Telefunken, for whom he sang the propaganda piece of the National Socialists "70 million - one blow" 1937 .

Eric Helgar has made well over 1000 recordings during his career with many leading German dance orchestras, making him one of the most important German vocalists of the shellac record era.

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