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Charlie & His Orchestra

Band, *1940 DE
Jazz
A.k.a. Lutz Templin Und Sein Tanzorchester

Charlie and his Orchestra (also referred to as the "Templin band" and "Bruno and His Swinging Tigers") were a Nazi-sponsored German propaganda swing band. Jazz music styles were seen by Nazi authorities as rebellious but, ironically, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels conceived of using the style in shortwave radio broadcasts aimed at the United States and (particularly) the United Kingdom. British listeners heard the band every Wednesday and Saturday at about 9 pm. The importance of the band in the propaganda war was underscored by a BBC survey released after World War II, which indicated that 26.5 percent of all British listeners had at some point heard programmes from Germany. The German Propaganda Ministry also distributed their music on 78 rpm records to POW camps and occupied countries.

Members

	Ferri Juza tb
	Detlev Lais voc, sax 1911-1978 DE
	Helmuth Friedrich tr
	Willy Berking tb 1910-1979 DE
	Fritz Petz tr
	Kurt Wege bs, cl 1911-1964 DE
	Rudi Wegener b
	Freddie Brocksieper dr 1912-1990 DE
	Charly Tabor tr 1919-1999 DE
	Lutz Templin ts, sax 1901-1973 DE
	Josse Breyere tb 1902-1995 BE
	Benny de Weille sax 1915-1977 DE
	Meg Tevelian g
	Franz Mück p DE
	Francesco Paolo Ricci sax
	Alfredo Marzaroli tr
	Friedrich Meyer 1915-1993 DE
	Herre Jager tr
	EBerhard Schmidt-Schulz tr, vn
	Nino Impallomeni tr IT
	Jean Robert sax 1908-1981 BE
	Primo Angeli p 1906-2003 IT
	Teddy Kleindin sax 1914-2007 DE
	Rimis Van Den Broek tr
	Mario Balbo sax
	Otto Tittmann b
	Eugen Henkel ts, cl, sax 1909-1978 DE
	Paul Henkel b
	Walter Leschetitzky str
	Max Gursch g
	Henk Bosch tb
	Cesare Caivaion b
	Tinus Buijn sax
	Folke Johnson tb
	Bob Van Venetiё sax
	Renato Carneval sax
	Fernando Diaz tr
	Cor Koblens sax
	Robby Zillner tb
	Tip Tichelaar p