Wencke the Wench - Sexy Wencke Myrhe turns a heartache into Side-Boob Wiggles!

Now that the blog is in "show and tell" mode, with Blogspot happily linking to YouTube (because both are owned by The Great God Google), you'll be SEEING some obscure but delightful musical moments. Like this:

With a nicely nasal shriek of JOE (she may have been channeling Gwen Verdon in "Damn Yankees") our Myrrh Cat opens with what she thinks are incredibly erotic come-hithers to her nethers.

First up, she's the State of Taking Liberties, her legs crossing in an "I've gotta pee" position while her right hand sticks straight up in the air. All those in favor of fucking this wench, say AYYYYYYE. Next, the aerobic robot switches to left-hand-on-knee. All those who have a knee fetish, toot your swine-knee whistles. 

As she continues to pierce the air with goose-like cries of JOE, she gets FRANK, and simply drops her hands with a "Come on, already, come and knockwurst mein schvitzer." And then, one arm pointing toward the bedroom (one assumes), she brings her hand to her side-boob, and twiddles her fingers.

Yes, TWIDDLES HER FINGERS. Does it get any more SEXY than that? 

All this in the first TWENTY SECONDS of the video.

NOW you see why the blog has begun to include YouTube visuals. Did Bonnie Tyler do any of this when she sang the original "It's a Heartache?" 

NO, probably because she was actually singing about a heartache. When lyricists in foreign countries grab a hit song and write for a local star in Germany, Belgium, France or other EU nation, they generally don't bother trying to literally translate. They just make up something new. SO...a song about a heartache turns into a set of turn-on moves (she thinks) for a GUY NAMED JOE. But YOU can pretend YOU are an AVERAGE JOE, too. 

Wencke the Wench Myrhe would go through the muck and mire to admire a Joe like you. (I am joe-king of course.)  

Want to know more? Wencke Myrhe (February 15th, 1947), a mere 30-something when she decided to give a Teutonic toot to Bonnie Tyler,  has always been part of my collection (making up for my lack of frankincense).

Years ago I got the cleverly titled "Wencke Myhre Album," where she covered and re-titled, Eric Clapton's "Sorry Sally," Juice Newton's "Der Mann auf einem Seil," and Bobbie Gentry's "Billy Joe McAllister." And "Wenn Du mich beruhrst" was her take on"Sometimes When We Touch." 

This is the album, and yes, I could make a zip file out of it with a Haaardy-har-har cry of "I do this for fun! I love music, I love sharing!" And then, the idiot caveat: "Delete this in 24 hours, it is for review only, if you like it buy it." 

I don't know why bloggers put that statement of assholery on their posts. We all know it's a crock of shit. If people get a download free, they almost NEVER buy the fucking album. What for? To have a wooden shelf sag under the weight of vinyl, when a simple 4TB brick of an external drive can hold an entire ROOM FULL OF MUSIC?? Let's be practical. People who own record stores or sell records mail order should sell hats instead, and musicians should all really give away the music and sell t-shirts at their gigs, and they also shouldn't mind if people use a camcorder to record the gig so nobody has to go in the first place.

A Norwegian who also sings in German, it's no surprise that depending on the country of origin, her albums are credited either to "Wencke" (Germany) or to "Wenche" (Norway).  Wink wink, say no more. She was not born in Norway or Germany. It was in Sweden. But as we know, Orange is the new Black, and Sweden might just as well be Norway.

In 1963 Wenche had three songs in the Norwegian Top Ten, and was ready to annex Germany as the next challenge. Singing in German, she won the Deutschen Schlagerfestival in 1966 with "Beiß Nicht Gleich In Jeden Apfel." It became a #1 hit in Germany, and she followed it in 1967 with the Top Ten "Komm Allein." The following year, she branched out to sing in Swedish, scoring with "Det var en ding-dong rena rama sing-sång." She sank her teeth into Danish songs, too.

Through the 60's and 70's, Wencke was in her prime, appearing in films and TV specials in Norway, Sweden and Germany, and in 1972 "Jeg og du og vi to og mange fler" proved to be her biggest Norwegian hit ever, spending 30 weeks on the charts and hitting #1. In 1978 she scored her final Top Ten in the German language with her cover version of "It's a Heartache."
 
In 1983 she became the first Norwegian to record a CD (it went gold) and she kept releasing new material through 1997, when she recorded "Vannmann." Her greatest hits have been re-packaged many times since, and she still tours in concert. As we say in Norway, I think; Gratulerer med dagen, Wenche.