My-Lai
1979 · KHP KHP 1001 · Bremen, Germany: West [FRG]
- Artist
- Thomas Kylau
- Title
- My-Lai
- Release
- Sagt mir wie ich meine sprache find'
- Year
- 1979
- Label
- KHP # KHP 1001
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- German
- Country
- Bremen, Germany: West [FRG]
- Songwriter
- Thomas Kylau, Uli Harmssen
- Genre
- Chanson · Chanson
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — European Songs
- My-Lai - West German - born in then German port town of Memel, now Klaipėda in Lithuania - Chanson
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Track B1. Sleeve: text Thomas Kylau, music Kylau and Uli Harmssen, arrangement Harmssen; recorded 20 June and 21 August 1979 at FDT-Studio, Bremen; produced by Harmssen and Kylau; KHP-Records c/o Harmssen, Bremen (label-derived city). Kylau vocals, Harmssen guitar/Polymoog, Siegmar Fetter flute; label credit "Thomas Kylau & Uli Harmssen". The song is a parable of a mandarin and the emperor's tailor; My Lai is named only in the closing line as the land the legend comes from.
About the artist
Thomas Kylau, born 10 September 1932 in Memel (now Klaipėda, Lithuania); died 13 April 2020 in Munich. German actor and singer who appeared in film and television from the early 1970s to 2012, including Edgar Reitz's "Heimat" and "Die zweite Heimat". [Source: filmportal.de; Discogs]