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Born in Vienna, Schifter started collecting 78s of the popular music of the interwar years already as a boy. After the war, he was instrumental in popularizing once again jazz and Swing in occupied Austria, becoming, in 1949, one of the first disc jockeys on Austrian radio. From 1967 to 2000 Schifter had a weekly radio programme, Günther Schifters Schellacks, where he played 78s from his vast personal archives (including, for example, more than 100 cover versions of W.C. Handy's "Saint Louis Blues") while always refusing to resort to reissues of older material on vinyl records, audiotape or, later, CDs. In between songs Schifter developed his unique style of giving enjoyable miniature history lessons. This is an album cover. ... This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ... Manufacturers put records inside protective and decorative cardboard jackets and an inner paper sleeve to protect the grooves from dust and scratches. ... Popular music, sometimes abbreviated pop music, is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are broadly popular. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Musically, swing can be either: (written with small s), refers to swung notes, the rhythmic feeling evoked by swinging music, esp. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... Radio transmission diagram and electromagnetic waves Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In pop music a cover version is a new rendition of a previously recorded song. ... W.C. Handy photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 - March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer, often known as The Father of the Blues. ... This article is about the song. ... 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... Image of a recordable compact disc (pencil included for scale) A compact disc (or CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ... A lesson is a structured period of time where learning occurs. ...

Ousted by the Austrian state radio (ORF) in 2000 due to a switch to the more commercial music radio format, Schifter continued broadcasting for a while from Bavaria, Germany, but is currently not on the air. A trained actor, Günther Schifter is immediately recognizable by his distinct and sonorous voice. Orf is a viral disease found primarily in sheep and goats that is caused by a parapox virus. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Commercial music radio is a radio format that plays popular music in a manner intended to increase profitability of advertisers, thereby increasing the value of the stations advertising, and the stations profits. ... With an area of 70,553 km² and 12. ... The Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. ...

See also

• Hans-Günter Martens
• Rob Bamberger
• The Swing Movement in Nazi Germany

The strict regimentation of youth culture in Nazi Germany through the Hitler Youth led to the emergence of several underground protest movements, through which adolescents were able better to exert their independence. ...

External links

• Günther Schifter: "Unterhaltung in den vierziger Jahren" (http://www.return2style.de/duesenberg/artikel/uid40ern.doc) ("Entertainment during the 1940s") (1998) (an essay very similar to his radio show; in German)