Eidelweiss – Vince Hill (1967)

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An individual, limited edition, example of vinyl art made from a genuine, original, 45rpm, 7” single featuring the  single, Eidelweiss by Vince Hill. The record was released in 1967, on the CBS record label and has been reworked into the shape of a Austrian Eidelweiss flower.

A great framed gift for a friend or family member who is a fan of Vince Hill, The Eidelweiss flower, the musical ‘The Sound of Music’, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Austria or has a special memory linked to the song.

Presented in a black wooden box frame
Limited Edition of 100, signed and numbered by myself, the artist

Title: Eidelweiss
Media Artist/s: Vince Hill
Record Label: CBS
Medium: Mixed media, hand cut from an original 7″ vinyl single
Era: 1960s
Genre: Soundtrack

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Vince Hill – The Artist

Vincent Hill (1934 – 2023) English traditional pop music singer, best known for his cover version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune Edelweiss (1967), which reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart (staying on the chart for 17 weeks). He recorded 25 studio albums and several soundtracks, wrote songs and plays and hosted TV shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including They Sold a Million (BBC), Musical Time Machine (BBC) and his own chat show Gas Street (ITV). Outside of his work in show business, he was a patron of the Macular Society, a UK charity for anyone affected by central vision loss.

Eidelweiss- The Song

Eidleweiss is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. It is named after the edelweiss , a white flower found high in the Alps. The song was created for the 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music, as a song for the character Captain Georg von Trapp. In the musical, Captain von Trapp and his family sing this song during the concert near the end of Act II. It is a statement of Austrian patriotism in the face of the pressure put upon him to join the navy of Nazi Germany following the Anschluss (Nazi annexation of their homeland). It is also Captain von Trapp’s subliminal goodbye to his beloved homeland, using the flower as a symbol of his loyalty to Austria. In the 1965 film adaptation, the song is also sung by the Captain earlier in the film when he rediscovers music with his children. This was the final song of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical collaboration as well as the last song written by Oscar Hammerstein II, who died in August 1960. This is the Cover version by Vince Hill

The Eidelweiss Flower – The Shape

This record is modelled into a the Eidelweiss Flower. The edelweiss is a popular flower in Austria and was featured on the old Austrian 1 schilling coin. It can also now be seen on the 2 cent Euro coin. The flower is protected in Austria and illegal to pick. An “edelweiss” is also worn as a cap emblem by certain Austrian Army and the German Gebirgsjäger (mountain troopers) units stationed in the nearby Bavarian Alps.

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Weight 1030 g
Dimensions 25 × 4.5 × 25 cm
Artist Formation

Solo Artist

Decade

60's

Gender

Male

Nationality

English

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