Sunshine--Quartett Schlager-Raritäten - Vier junge Damen (2-CD)

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The Sunshine Quartet was founded in 1946 by pianist Erich Werner. It consisted of the singers Maria Korn, Ingeborg Oberländer, Reni Kamberg, Ilse Wappler, Rosi Hofmann, Ina Bellé, Hannelore Fey, Anni Storz, Henni Kraus and Irm Schroeder in changing line-ups.

From 1954, they also appeared as Die Sunnies. As Telestars, they sang together with the Cornel Trio. The Sunshine Quartet was also frequently active as a background choir for the pop stars of the time, such as Renate Holm, Lys Assia, Sylvia Dahl, Vico Torriani and Horst Winter.

In addition to various chart notations as an accompanying choir for well-known fellow artists, the quartet also scored its own Top 20 hit with Vier junge Damen (1956, number 18). Together with Kurt Adolf Thelen and the Golgowsky Quartet, the four singers even had a No. 1 hit with the song Am 30. Mai ist der Weltuntergang (1954).

The quartet also appeared in the cinema, for example in the 1959 film Du bist wunderbar (You are wonderful). After countless recordings in various lineups under changing names, the Sunshine Quartet's career came to an end in the mid-1960s.