hello mr dj [fats and his cats

[acampbell]

could anyone transpose this into [english for me ] please [bumchord]

Hallo Mister DJ
Fats & His Cats


Hallo Mister DJ
h”r doch bitte noch nicht auf.
Leg doch von den heiáen Oldies
eine dufte Platte auf.
Spiele was von Elvis Presley
oder von Fats Domino.
Denn der gute Rock'n Roll
macht mich erst so richtig froh.

Hallo Mister DJ
laá mich bitte noch tr„umen.
Rock 'n Roll wird immer jung sein,
die Musik hat so viel Schwung.
Spiele was von Littlle Richard
aus der guten alten Zeit.
Die Vergangenheit hol'n wir zurck,
sie bleibt nie vergessne Zeit.

Ohne meinen Rock 'n Roll
w„r das Leben halb so sch”n.
Denn der Rock 'n Roll ist toll,
kannst du das denn nicht verstehn.

Hallo Mister DJ
h”r doch bitte noch nicht auf.
Leg doch von den heiáen Oldies
eine dufte Platte auf.
Spiele was von Elvis Presley
oder von Fats Domino.
Denn der gute Rock'n Roll
macht mich erst so richtig froh.

Ohne meinen Rock 'n Roll
w„r das Leben halb so sch”n.
Denn der Rock 'n Roll ist toll,
kannst du das denn nicht verstehn.

Hallo Mister DJ
h”r doch bitte noch nicht auf.
Leg doch von den heiáen Oldies
eine dufte Platte auf.
Spiele was von Elvis Presley
oder von Fats Domino.
Denn der gute Rock'n Roll
macht mich erst so richtig froh.

[frank]

Nov 5, 2009 0:08:06 GMT acampbell said:

could anyone transpose this into [english for me ] please [bumchord]

Hallo Mister DJ
Fats & His Cats


Hallo Mister DJ
h”r doch bitte noch nicht auf.
Leg doch von den heiáen Oldies
eine dufte Platte auf.
Spiele was von Elvis Presley
oder von Fats Domino.
Denn der gute Rock'n Roll
macht mich erst so richtig froh.

Hallo Mister DJ
laá mich bitte noch tr„umen.
Rock 'n Roll wird immer jung sein,
die Musik hat so viel Schwung.
Spiele was von Littlle Richard
aus der guten alten Zeit.
Die Vergangenheit hol'n wir zurck,
sie bleibt nie vergessne Zeit.

Ohne meinen Rock 'n Roll
w„r das Leben halb so sch”n.
Denn der Rock 'n Roll ist toll,
kannst du das denn nicht verstehn.

Hallo Mister DJ
h”r doch bitte noch nicht auf.
Leg doch von den heiáen Oldies
eine dufte Platte auf.
Spiele was von Elvis Presley
oder von Fats Domino.
Denn der gute Rock'n Roll
macht mich erst so richtig froh.

Ohne meinen Rock 'n Roll
w„r das Leben halb so sch”n.
Denn der Rock 'n Roll ist toll,
kannst du das denn nicht verstehn.

Hallo Mister DJ
h”r doch bitte noch nicht auf.
Leg doch von den heiáen Oldies
eine dufte Platte auf.
Spiele was von Elvis Presley
oder von Fats Domino.
Denn der gute Rock'n Roll
macht mich erst so richtig froh.

Not Dutch but German.
John G should be able to help there!

[JohnG]

Nov 5, 2009 0:08:06 GMT acampbell said:

could anyone transpose this into [english for me ] please [bumchord]

h”r doch bitte noch nicht auf. (hoer doch bitte noch nicht auf)
Leg doch von den heiáen Oldies (leg doch von den heissen Oldies)

laá mich bitte noch tr„umen. (lass mich bitte noch traeumen,)

Die Vergangenheit hol'n wir zurck, (Die Vergangenheit hol?n wir zurueck,)

w„r das Leben halb so sch”n. (waer das Leben halb so schoen)

h”r doch bitte noch nicht auf.
Leg doch von den heiáen Oldies

w„r das Leben halb so sch”n.
h”r doch bitte noch nicht auf.

Hi Frank,

Yes, it's German, and I can translate some of it, but the words that I've left above in the quotation, like h"r and others with accents and so on, don't translate, so I'll have to try and work out what they are. I'm guessing that they'll be the a, o and u with an umlaut (double dots) above them and also the German double s sign. It's just a case of working out which is which, and you'll see I've made a stab at it in brackets.

Susanne translated it immediately over the phone, but too quick for me to copy it down. She was expecting the company's MD to visit any moment so didn't have any time. I'll ask her again this evening.

Some of it is colloquial German "dufte Platte" is literally "smelly disc" but "dufte" is an old Berlin saying meaning wonderful, just as we'd use "cool". "Heissen Oldies" = hot oldies.

If you can be of any help deciphering these it would help. If you have an "a" with 2 dots write "ae"; "o" with 2 dots "oe"; "u" with 2 dots "ue"; and a character that looks like a capital "B" or a Greek "beta" is a double "s".

As Arnie says "I'll be back!"
JohnG.

[Jacqui]

I suppose you've tried a free translator on the web, like Babylon or Google
I tried it and most of the words were translated, I've not heard of Fat's & his Cats.
I assume it's not the same Hello Mr DJ that Merge Haggard & Robert Mizzelle have coverered
Jacqui

[JohnG]

I've got some translator software here Jacqui, and it gave words for most of it, but it can't decipher colloquial German to English. nor the other way round for that matter. So it makes a bit of a mess of it. Susanne translated it in a way that made perfect sense, at least to me.

BTW thanks for the e-mail with the computer jokes, they were good! ;D
JohnG.

[infolena]

I´ve have done a rough translation for you to see what the song is about.
I leave the fine details to John.

Hello mr DJ
Please don´t stop just yet
Put from your hot oldies
A cool record on
Play something by Elvis Presley
Or by Fats Domino
Because the good rock´n roll
Makes me feel so good

Hello mr DJ
Let me please go on dreaming
Rock´n roll will always be young
The music has such swing
Play something by Little Richard
From the good old days
We take back the past
It remains a never forgotten time

Without my rock´n roll
My life would be only half as good
Because the rock´n roll is fantastic
Can´t you understand that

[acampbell]

your all a great help i think i will be able to do the song with the words lena did . cheers everybody [bumchord]

[JohnG]

You're quite right Frank,

It's a really good translation, and translations are only that, an attempt to convert local words and phrases into another language. So I say "well done Lena"!

Susanne's was very similar and only varied in some slight details.

You could use any colloquial word instead of "dufte" e.g. Cool or Fab or whatever you like.

We had "because the good old rock 'n roll makes me feel so great." Just to avoid repeating "good".

For "let me please go on dreaming" we had "please let me dream a while" only because it sounds more natural, Lena's is a more accurate version.

For "Rock 'n roll will always be young" we had " Rock 'n roll stays ever young", same as above.

"the music has such swing" Schwung could be translated as swing but also beat or rhythm, vivacity, energy, drive. Strictly speaking (I'm splitting hairs here) schwingen is swing. Schwung is used to try to describe the feeling you get when something "gets you going".

But you can see that I am just giving alternatives, whether better or worse is a matter of personal taste and preference. Lena's is a good literal translation.

You should feel free to turn it into colloquial English that rhymes and scans if you so choose. All good translations of artistic work attempt to capture the "feeling" of the original, not be slaves to exactness.

e.g. Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat:

AWAKE ! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo ! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

or

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

and

'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.

the well known

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Lastly

Ah Love ! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits - and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire !

All translated from the original 1000 year old Persian by Fitzgerald.
Some of my favourites,
JohnG.

[Jacqui]

After all this talk about this song, I'd really like to hear the original, I could not find anything on the net, not even a snippit

Jacqui

[acampbell]

lena i can send you the midifile if you like [bumchord]

[acampbell]

you as well jac if you want it [bumchord]

[infolena]

Yes, please

I´m really curious now about this song.

thanks
Lena

[Jacqui]

If anyone finds the original please send me a copy

Jacqui

[Jacqui]

Hi Alex
Just so you know that song is now on utube, I exchanged a few emails with a chap posting videos on there of Fats & His Cats and he has now posted that one too.
here is the link

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-Q9y4PAEM

Jacqui

[JohnG]

Sounds an awful lot like most of the riffs were "nicked" from the other Fats and also Bill and the Comets. What d'ya think? Now where was it they nicked them from?
As usual just my 2d.
JohnG.