Na Golici (Trompeten-Echo)
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"Na Golici" is a 1953 slovenian
polka
song originally performed by Slovenian folk band at time named "Gorenjski kvartet / Oberkrainer Quartett". Today they are known as "Ansambel bratov Avsenik / Slavko Avsenik Und Seine Original Oberkrainer", but this band no longer exists.
Music was written by slovenian Slavko Avsenik
and arranged by his brother, composer Vilko Ovsenik. In 1955 this song was first time recorded in studio on a small four track album called Slowenische Bauerntanz and released by Telefunken Records
. It's the most played instrumental tune ever and second overall. This song has more than 600 covers from all over the world.
where he was still working as a knitter. When he heard a rhythm of the knitting machine he was working at, he came up with the melody for "Na Golici/Trompeten-Echo" and quickly wrote it on a napkin. He wrote music on this napkin his own way, because he didn't know the music notes. That's how this tune was created. Right after that he asked his brother Vilko Ovsenik, a composer, to write it down in music notes and to arranged it. This tune was already performed in public by "Slavko Avsenik Trio", a band under this name which was founded this year. But this song still wasn't recorded in studio or released on any kind of music format.
1955 - The musicians were heard at the Radio Celje by Fred Rauch, who was at the time editor of Bavarian radio in Munich
and was on vacation at Wőrther Lake
, Austria
. He was enthusiastic by their originality. That's why he went to the Carinthian
radio, borrowed the tapes and little later they performed on his show. At the time the band was called Gorenjski kvintet, but for the German market their name was changed into the Oberkrainer Quintett.
With the German publishing house Telefunken Records, Avsenik and his band recorded this song for the first on a track in studio on a vynil record. Before that song was recorded you could only hear it at Live public performances of band "Gorenjski kvartet / Oberkrainer Quartett as they were named at that time, today known as Ansambel bratov Avsenik. And it was released on their small album with four songs on it: Na Golici, Spomin, Praznovanje na deželi and Veseli svatje.
Slovenian
The terms Slovene and Slovenian refer to anything related to Slovenes and Slovenia. Both terms have been used for a long time in English.* Slovenian cuisine* Slovene language , a South Slavic language spoken mainly in Slovenia...
polka
Polka
The polka is a Central European dance and also a genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia...
song originally performed by Slovenian folk band at time named "Gorenjski kvartet / Oberkrainer Quartett". Today they are known as "Ansambel bratov Avsenik / Slavko Avsenik Und Seine Original Oberkrainer", but this band no longer exists.
Music was written by slovenian Slavko Avsenik
Slavko Avsenik
Slavko Avsenik is a Slovenian composer and musician. His career accomplishments place him at the worldwide pinnacle of success among ethnic popular musicians...
and arranged by his brother, composer Vilko Ovsenik. In 1955 this song was first time recorded in studio on a small four track album called Slowenische Bauerntanz and released by Telefunken Records
Telefunken
Telefunken is a German radio and television apparatus company, founded in Berlin in 1903, as a joint venture of Siemens & Halske and the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft...
. It's the most played instrumental tune ever and second overall. This song has more than 600 covers from all over the world.
History and recording
1953 - In this year Slavko Avsenik composed a polka "Na Golici" (Trompeten-Echo) at Tonosa company in LjubljanaLjubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
where he was still working as a knitter. When he heard a rhythm of the knitting machine he was working at, he came up with the melody for "Na Golici/Trompeten-Echo" and quickly wrote it on a napkin. He wrote music on this napkin his own way, because he didn't know the music notes. That's how this tune was created. Right after that he asked his brother Vilko Ovsenik, a composer, to write it down in music notes and to arranged it. This tune was already performed in public by "Slavko Avsenik Trio", a band under this name which was founded this year. But this song still wasn't recorded in studio or released on any kind of music format.
1955 - The musicians were heard at the Radio Celje by Fred Rauch, who was at the time editor of Bavarian radio in Munich
Munich
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and was on vacation at Wőrther Lake
Wörthersee
The Wörthersee is an alpine lake in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia.-General facts:The lake is elongated, about 20 km long and 1–2 km wide. It stretches from the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt in the east to Velden in the west...
, Austria
Austria
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. He was enthusiastic by their originality. That's why he went to the Carinthian
Carinthia
Carinthia may refer to:*Carinthia , a state of the Republic of Austria*Slovenian Carinthia, a traditional region of Slovenia*Koroška statistical region, the statistical region of Slovenia*March of Carinthia, in the Holy Roman Empire...
radio, borrowed the tapes and little later they performed on his show. At the time the band was called Gorenjski kvintet, but for the German market their name was changed into the Oberkrainer Quintett.
With the German publishing house Telefunken Records, Avsenik and his band recorded this song for the first on a track in studio on a vynil record. Before that song was recorded you could only hear it at Live public performances of band "Gorenjski kvartet / Oberkrainer Quartett as they were named at that time, today known as Ansambel bratov Avsenik. And it was released on their small album with four songs on it: Na Golici, Spomin, Praznovanje na deželi and Veseli svatje.