Happiness is a Wee Birdie – it is between gaiety, melancholy and the fatalism so typical of the Viennese soul that the Viennese and wine tavern songs roam, sung by the well-known actor and cabaret artist Erwin Steinhauer with the Upper Austrian Con- cert-Schrammeln and released on this new CD. Successful hits of this genre such as Wenn der Herrgott net will, nützt es gar nix, Einmal in der Wochen fall i' um, I hab's G'fühl – i' hab z'viel, In der Barnabitengasse or Ich bin ein Durchschnittswiener by composers like Ernst Arnold, Hans von Frankowski, Karl Föderl, Hans Lang or Her- mann Leopoldi permit a profound and authentic insight into the emotional life of the Viennese. Original Schrammel classics by Johann Schrammel, Wendelin Engel, Josef Mikulas and Alois Strohmayer combine waltzes, dances, polkas, marches and other forms of Viennese folk music.