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Eduard Künneke (also spelled Künnecke) (27 January 1885 – 27 October 1953) was a German composer of operettas, operas and theatre music. He was born in Emmerich.

His daughter was the actress and singer Evelyn Künneke.
Künneke studied musicology and literature in Berlin, and was also an advanced student of Max Bruch. He worked as a repetiteur and chorus master at a Berlin operetta theatre, the Neues Operettentheater am Schiffbauerdamm, but relinquished his post as chorus master after his opera Robins Ende (1909) was premiered in Mannheim and then received productions at 38 different German opera houses. Künneke later worked under Max Reinhardt and wrote incidental music for Reinhardt’s staging of Part Two of Goethe's Faust.

Künneke's graceful music is distinguished by its rhythm and striking harmonies.

His best-known work is the 1921 operetta Der Vetter aus Dingsda ( the cousin from NOWHERE ); many of his songs are still familiar today.

You played Meadowland twice, buddy, but it's worth it. I like your two versions better than mine. I think yours may be the one that involved Sputnik.

Uitgevoerd door Skitch Henderson and the Tonight Show. Het was een tijdje de tune van Gerard De Vries op Radio Veronica en ook in gebruik bij de prgramma's van de zonnebloem-acties op deze zeezender. Bron: Het Tunes-boek, Jelle Boonstra en Benno Roozen.