Gute nacht freunde

[pieter]

Gute Nacht Freunde, es wird Zeit für mich zu gehn.
Was ich noch zu sagen hätte, dauert eine Zigarette
und ein letztes Glas im Stehn.

Für den Tag, für die Nacht unter eurem Dach habt Dank,
für den Platz an eurem Tisch, für jedes Glas,
das ich trank,für den Teller, den ihr mir zu den euren stellt,
als sei selbstverständlicher nichts auf der Welt.

Gute Nacht Freunde, es wird Zeit für mich zu gehn.
Was ich noch zu sagen hätte, dauert eine Zigarette
und ein letztes Glas im Stehn.

Habt Dank für die Zeit, die ich mit euch ver-plaudert hab
und für eure Geduld, wenn's mehr als eine Meinung gab,
dafür, daß ihr nie fragt, wann ich komm oder geh,
für die stets offene Tür, in der ich jetzt steh.

Gute Nacht Freunde, es wird Zeit für mich zu gehn.
Was ich noch zu sagen hätte, dauert eine Zigarette
und ein letztes Glas im Stehn.

Für die Freiheit, die als steter Gast bei euch wohnt,habt Dank,
daß ihr nie fragt, was es bringt, ob es lohnt,
vielleicht liegt es daran, daß man von draußen meint,
daß in euren Fenstern das Licht wärmer scheint.

Gute Nacht Freunde, es wird Zeit für mich zu gehn.
Was ich noch zu sagen hätte, dauert eine Zigarette
und ein letztes Glas im Stehn.

[pieter]

The first bars of Reinhard Mey's Gute Nacht, Freunde have been used since 1976 as the beginning of the theme tune for the popular Dutch radio show Met het Oog op Morgen, broadcast every night from 23:00 until midnight on Radio 1. After the words "und ein letztes Glas im steh'n", the Mey song fades away and an orchestra takes over.



I loved and love this radio program or am fond of it

[karl]

Pieter

A sensative and warming song of Reinhard May to introduce his show with and with closing. Although late at night, sounds as very entertaining as a nice family programme.

Karl

[pieter]

Karl,

The Radio program is a Dutch late night news show and the song is by the excellent German musician and singer Reinhard May. It is not May's radio program, these Dutch guys just used his song as a beginning and ending tune of their radio program. It is one of May's many beautiful German songs. He has a nice voice and his guitar music is nice for in the evening, because it is smooth and relaxing. That's why the Dutch Radio people of Met het Oog op Morgen choose to use his song. I don't know if Reinhard May and the Dutch people of Met het Oog op Morgen have ever had contact with each other?

Cheers,
Pieter

[karl]

Pieter

I was mistaken,thank you for the correction..

Karl

[pieter]

Dear Karl,

Not a big mistake, you couldn't know that. Most important is that this is a nice song and for me it has sentimental and melancholic value for me. It is part of my life.

Cheers,
Pieter

[Jaga]

Pieter, nice song and music and it reminded me either Leonard Cohen or French poetic music from 70s.

I miss old radio programs. This radio set you showed reminded me the radio - my grandmother was listening to on Sundays - there was a Polish church service in Rome. My grandmother was too old and too sick (rheumatic arthritis) to attend the church.

[pieter]

Jaga,

I miss old radio programs too. I do believe that both Europe and the USA had and stil have great Radio programs and shows. This radio set you showed reminded me the radio - my grandmother was listening to on Sundays - there was a Polish church service in Rome. My grandmother was too old and too sick (rheumatic arthritis) to attend the church. We had great Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play,[1] radio theater, or audio theater) dramatized, purely acoustic performances on Dutch radio. A great tradition of making sounds for these Radio drama's with people who created for instance footsteps on a gravel path to a house, doors being opened and closed, someone walking the stairs, the sound of soft, moderate and hard wind, treet leaves touching windows, kitchen sounds, Teacups being placed on saucers, cups of coffee, coffee cans, the sound of making coffee and tea, pots and pans, knife and forks being used on plates, the cooking process, people having breakfest, Brunch, lunch or dinner. The sound of people entering, being in and leaving a pub. Drinking beer, genever (the Dutch vodka or whiskey), whiskey, vodka, rum, wine, a normal coffee, a Cappuccino, an Espresso or Double Espresso or hot chocolate milk.

The sound of a family in such a play, or a group of friends or certain people of a certain profession (police officers, fire fighters, doctors and nurses, criminals, the milkman, the greengrocer, the accountant, the lawjer, the teacher, the politician, the construction worker, farmer, fisherman, sailor or -female- secretary, businessman, student, civil servant, car mechanic and Midwife). I enjoyed special Pop music programs, these Radio drama's, special subject programs, political news programs, nature/environment and news shows greatly.


I can't translate, but the images speak for themselves.






Listen for a few second on 23:26. The sounds of the speaking men and the car engine sounds that accelerates is a typical example of the radio drama of that analogue time that is lost.

This great way of radio making is lost in the Netherlands and will be something of the analogue era of the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties.

Cheers,
Pieter

[pieter]

The Duch tv showed how radio drama was made in the VARA ((Association of Worker Radio Amateurs). That name was of the past, because the VARA was in no way a broadcast organisation of Amateurs, they had professional radio makers and top radio and tv people. The name ofcourse shows the Social Democratic (Labour) background of the VARA. Also the Dutch reformed NCRV, Roman Catholic KRO-RKK, the general liberal AVRO, general Tros, the leftwing intellectual academic VPRO and probably the Evangelical EU made great Radio drama too.