Peter Orloff (born 12 March 1944,

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) is a German schlager singer, composer, producer, and songwriter. He had more than a dozen

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s in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s.

Background

Orloff was connected with the publishing company Magazine Music. The director was Wilfried Achterfield. Orloff was the composer and producer for the company's subsidiary, Xanadu Music.

Producer

Orloff did a lot of production work with

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throughout the 1970s into the early 1980s. Orloff and

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co-produced the single, "

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" for the group

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. It was released in Germany on Aladin 1C 006-32 779 in 1978.

Record labels

Orloff founded the Aladin and Troja Records labels. He also founded the production company Peter Orloff GmbH & Co. KG.

Aladin

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'' indicated that the disco group, Ebony was placed well for the European market. Their new single, the

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composition, "

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", published on Aladin was seeing a release in most European countries. It was aired on the '' Notturno Italiano'' program. The group had performed the song on the ''

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'' show on 11 December 1976. By early December 1979, Aladin Records had extended its distribution pact and were pushing German Schlager music. With the distribution, artists being released included,

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, and Marion Maerz. Peter Orloff also had a release in that time. In January 2019, he reached number 7 in the German i-Tunes charts with a new recording of Ein Mädchen für immer. In May, his album Teure Heimat (Peter Orloff & der Schwarzmeer Kosaken-Chor) reached number 2 in the official German GfK Top 10 Folk Music charts. On December 6, 2019, Peter Orloff entered the official GfK Top 100 album charts for the first time with this album. In January 2020, he was honored with two Smago Awards as "The Titan" and "Jungle King of Hearts".

Singles

*''Saphir und Rubin / Mein schwarzer Engel'' 1966 *''Das schönste Mädchen der Welt'' 1967 ("West German Original Recording" of a song by Günter Geißler) *''Es ist nie zu spät'' 1967, GER #17 ("West German Original Recording" of a song by Klaus Sommer) *''City Girl'' 1968, GER #20 *''Gold auf der Straße'' 1968, GER #26 *''Sie schaut mich immer wieder an'' 1968, GER #36 *''Eine Farm für schöne Mädchen'' 1969, GER #40 *''Monika'' 1969, GER #37 *''Baby Dadamda'' 1969, GER #26 *''Das brennt so heiß wie Feuer'' 1970, GER #31 *''Ein Mädchen für immer'' 1971, v #16 *''Wie ein Stern'' 1971 ("West German Original Recording" of a song by

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) *''Ein Leben voll Liebe'' 1971, GER #38 *''Jeder hat dich gern, doch nur Einer hat dich lieb'' 1972, GER #46 *''Eliza'' 1973 *''Ein Engel auf Urlaub'' 1974 *''Zünd eine Kerze an und warte auf den Morgen'' 1975, GER #44 *''Suchst du die Liebe - Sunny Girl'' 1975 *''Ich bestell schon mal das Himmelbett'' 1976 *''Wilder Wein'' 1976 *''Bettler und Prinz'' 1977 (German version of " Needles and Pins" by

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) *''Die Nacht als Christina fortlief'' 1977, GER #39 (German version of " Lay Back in the Arms of Someone", Smokie) *''Immer wenn ich Josy seh'' 1978, GER #23 (German version of ''Kara Kara'',

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) *''Cora, komm nach Haus'' 1979, GER #31 (German version of ''Tom Tom Turnaround'', New World) *''Ich liebe Dich'' 1979, GER #27 *''Königin der Nacht'' 1979 *''War das schon alles? '' 1999 *''Zwischen Kirche und Kneipe'' 2001

References

External links

* * German male singers German schlager musicians 1944 births Living people Aladin Records artists {{Germany-musician-stub