Marion
A: I Think I Said Yes
B: I Go To Sleep
Hansa 19 770 AT (1967)

Another first in the blog: a german doll singing english! Marion Maerz is arguably the most saluted german doll around. Reportedly even Paul McCartney noticed her talent. She cleverly stayed away from those typical Schlager novelty tunes and delivered honest, slightly melancholy tracks. Her producer Christian Bruhn writes in his book that he had one winning formula for Marion that he exercised to perfection: "Keep it simple, keep sexy, keep it sad".
Her breakthrough hit became the iconic "Er ist wieder da", that was written by Bruhn at the same time as Drafi Deutscher's "Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht". If you listen closley you will recognize the same patteren of slow and faster parts in both tunes.
Anyway, Marion's german tracks are expertly compiled on her Bear Family CD "Er ist wieder da". However the family made one painful omission: her wonderful english language single "I Go To Sleep", a track written by Ray Davies from The Kinks and previously recorded by Peggy Lee and Cher (and shortly after by brit girl Samantha Jones), but no one can do sexy/sad like Marion and her version towers over all others. She became one of the few german artists to appear on the german Beatclub TV show, see a short clip of performance below. Now get a handkerchief ready and wallow in her delicate pain...

Marion - I Go To Sleep (1967)