JACK AUFDERHEIDE, wearing a Bavarian style jacket,is checking the record album being released this week by New Ulm’s Concord Singers. The album of German songs is a first for the Singers. Profits from sale of the albums will be used to purchase new uniforms for the Singers. Aufderheide found this Bavarian jacket on a recent trip to Germany and it will be a model for the new uniforms. (Photo by Lee Groebner)

The Concord Singers of New Ulm have come out with their first album in 42 years since the group was organized. The title of the record is “Neu Ulm Das Ist Eine Shoene Stadt” (New Ulm is a very charming city!).

The founders of New Ulm brought with them a love for the traditional music long before New Ulm came to b known as the “Polka Capital of the Nation.” These songs renew the spirit found in the hearts of New Ulm’s original planners and settlers. All 20 numbers on the record are done in German.

The Concord Singers feel strongly about their unique privilege of being financially supported by the City of New Ulm and have performed before audiences, large and small, on radio, television, stage and fairground throughout the Midwest. This recording will help Singers preserve the old songs so meaningful to the founders of the city.

The profits realized by the sale of the records will be used to help finance new uniforms. The uniforms now worn by the group are ten years old. The new uniforms will be authentic Bavarian style so that the Concord Singers will be identified with the German heritage of the community they represent.

The records are on sale at The Music Store, Brown’s Music Store, Meidl Music Store, Thrifty Drugs, Restaurant Eibner and others. A booth will be set up on Minnesota Street the weekend of Musikantenfest where the record can be heard and purchased. Mail orders can be addressed to P. O. Box 190, New Ulm, Minn. 56073. Price is $4.95 plus 50 cents for mailing.

A few of the numbers presented on the record are Mitternacht Walzer (Midnight Waltz), Abendlied (Song of Evening), Jaegerleben (Huntsman’s Life), Treue Liebe (How Can I Leave Thee), Schweizer Bub’ (The Swiss Boy), Du, Du Ligst Mir Im Herzen (Your are in My Heart), Heidenroeslein (Rose of the Meadow), Muss I Denn (I Must Go Now), Edelweiss, Der Frohe Wandersmann (The Happy Wanderer), Immer Noch Ein Troepfchen (One More Little Sip), Faria (Happy is the Gypsy Life) and others.

A great deal of time and effort went into the printing of the jacket for this record. The words of all the numbers are printed on the back in easy to read sing along style. A short description of each number is also printed on the cover that includes a sketch of Hermann monument.

New Ulm Daily Journal, July 20, 1973