... and I love you both
| ... and I love you both | |
|---|---|
| Andrea Juergens | |
| publication | November 1977 |
| length | 3:55 |
| Genre (s) | Bat |
| Author (s) | Jack White , Jon Athan |
| Producer (s) | Jack White |
| Publisher (s) | Ariola |
| album | I'll show you my paradise |
... and yet I love you both is one of Jack White -composed and Jon Athan getextetes song from 1977. The then ten-year-old Andrea Jürgens sang it for the first time in the ARD -Silvestergala of On churning with Rudi Carrell in front of a television audience of around 37 million People and became known instantly. As a so-called "problem hit", the song deals with the child's dilemma, who feels connected to both parents even after the divorce.
Background and origin
After some hesitation, Jack White decided in 1977 to produce the nine-year-old Andrea Juergens, who had stood out in a talent competition organized by the newspaper WAZ when she had prevailed against a competition of 30 adults. In his 2010 memoirs, White compared her voice to “a young Mireille Mathieu ”. As a lyricist he chose - in his first collaboration - Wolf Preuss, who he considered more demanding and less commercial than others, part of the duo Inga and Wolf , who also worked under the name Jon Athan . This provided the text on which White composed the melody.
White portrays the situation in such a way that, despite a convincing performance, he was advised against producing a ten-year-old, since child stars have not “left” in Germany since Heintje . However, he stuck to his decision. Andrea Jürgens remembers that the producer received rejections for her from all TV channels. However, White was able to inspire Rudi Carrell , who even engaged Andrea Jürgens exclusively for his New Year's Eve gala. In the show on December 31, 1977, the staging of the little, sad girl in a white nightgown in her cot was a complete success.
Text and music
text
The text takes the perspective of a child of divorce , whose parents do not have a good relationship with one another, and who would like his family to be reunited. In the first stanza, the girl asks why she is only allowed to see her father every 14 days and why the mother “doesn't like” more contact. The second verse describes the "handover" situation from the weekend father to the mother, in which the child desperately asks that the father come into the house so that there can be "three more times" - which the father refuses because "something between" the parents (which may indicate a paternal infidelity as a reason for separation)
In the chorus, the child's conflict culminates in the lines
And I love you both
because I'm your child
Why can't I decide
where I want to be?
This is increased again towards the end; the song ends with the question
Why can't you decide
that we'll be family again soon?
music
After a short piano intro, the singing voice begins in the two stanzas in a calm and ballad-like narrative. The last two lines of text of the individual stanzas leading to the chorus are dramatically emphasized by increasing melody and volume, with additional instrumental accompaniment and background vocals. The chorus is lyrically and melodically highlighted (sixth upswing) and is also reinforced by choral background vocals.
At the end - "Why can't you decide that we're going to be a family again soon " - the tempo is slowed down and the melody finally moves from the basic key of G major to E flat major .
The arrangement of the hit comes from Jo Plée.
successes
... and I love you both reached fourth place in the single charts in Germany and placed a total of twelve weeks in the top 10 and 28 weeks in the charts. In Austria the single reached its highest chart listing in four chart weeks with rank 25. In the Swiss hit parade reached ... and I love you both ranked sixth and placed in the charts for nine weeks. At the end of the year, the single was eleventh in the German annual single charts. For Jürgens it was the first chart success in all three countries, and until 2004 she was the youngest German ever to achieve a top ten placement.
In March 1978 Andrea Juergens appeared with the song in the ZDF hit parade , where it took first place.
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Cover versions
An instrumental version of ... and I love you both on the electronic organ was recorded by Franz Lambert in 1978 on his album Super 40 Pop Orgel Hitparade . Roy Etzel published a version on his album Tanz Discothek Episode 1.
Jack White later marketed the song with other artists he had under contract: In 1980, Sandy Powers sang, in 1986 Audrey Landers sang the English version of The Sun Shines, When Somebody Loves You . In 1982 there was also a "reggae version" with Judy Jackson.
A cover version of Guildo Horn & the Orthopedic Stockings appeared in 1995 on the album Sternstunden der Zärtlichkeit . Finally, the Luxembourg singer Marisa Donato covered the piece together with other Andrea Jürgens songs on her album Immortal in 2019 .
Context and reception
In 1977 divorce law in Germany had just been reformed, so that the principle of fault no longer applied, but the principle of breakdown. The discussions associated with it since the early 1970s also influenced popular culture . In 1974 Udo Jürgens sang the melancholy divorce and Gunter Gabriel and his daughter Hey Yvonne together . ... and I love you both , however, was the first song in Germany in which the topic was interpreted from the perspective of a child.
André Port le Roi comes to the conclusion in Schlager not lie: German hits and politics in their time came to the conclusion that the song hit “the collective nerve of a time”.
The piece has not only found acceptance in specialist music literature, but is also used, examined and cited in an educational context. Sebastian Peters compares it in 2012 with the Nina Hagen Band's song Pank, which appeared almost at the same time , in which a woman leaves her partner - “The contrasts between punk and hit can hardly be presented more clearly: On the one hand, the new understanding of gender, on the on the other hand a traditional family picture ”.
Web links
- ... and yet I love you both at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Andrea Jürgens - ... and I love you both. austriancharts.at, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ a b ANDREA JÜRGENS The double CD "Das Beste" tested by Holger Stürenburg! - smago. Retrieved on August 16, 2020 (German).
- ^ A b c Wilhelm Schepping: On the media influence on the singing repertoire and the vocal reproduction behavior of students. New data and facts on song didactics . In: Klaus-E. Behne (Ed.): Individual examinations (= music pedagogical research . Volume 1 ). Laaber 1980, p. 248 ( prossl.de ).
- ↑ a b c ANDREA JÜRGENS smago! top exclusive: the great Andrea Jürgens story 1967 - 2017! - smago. Retrieved on August 16, 2020 (German).
- ↑ a b c Diane Zilliges (adaptation): My incredible life . As told to Janine Canan White. Riva, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86413-049-6 , pp. 125–129 ( google.de [accessed on August 16, 2020]).
- ↑ a b Jürgen Trimborn: Rudi Carrell: a life for the show; the biography . Bertelsmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-570-00941-6 , pp. 295 (?) .
- ↑ Andrea Jürgens And I love you both in 1977 Churning out with Rudi Carrell. In: youtube.com. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Conrad Wilitzki: children in the pop-limbo. In: Popmonitor. April 13, 2016, accessed on August 16, 2020 (German).
- ↑ a b Andrea Jürgens - ... and I love you both. officialcharts.de, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Andrea Jürgens - ... and I love you both. hitparade.ch, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Top 100 annual single charts: 1978. officialcharts.de, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Early Stars: The youngest Germans tell . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 56 . Munich March 8, 2004, p. 15 .
- ^ ZDF hit parade - hitparade.ch. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
- ^ Franz Lambert - Super 40 Pop Organ Hit Parade. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Roy Etzel and his sound orchestra * - 28 super hits from a decade. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Marisa Donato - I love you both - hitparade.ch. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
- ↑ New divorce law: Pay three times - DER SPIEGEL 27/1977. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Oliver Bekermann: "There are always miracles": a quantitative-exploratory study on the mutual interdependence of everyday communication and German hits . (Dissertation Ruhr University Bochum). Bochum 2006 ( bekermann.com [PDF]).
- ↑ André Port le roi: Schlager don't lie: German hits and politics in their time . Klartext, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-657-X , p. 193 ( google.de ).
- ↑ Reiner Andreas Neuschäfer: Without a network !? : Templates on disputes, separation, divorce: secondary . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-647-77625-5 , p. 13 ( google.de ).
- ↑ Jürg Häusermann : And I love you both ... entertainment through hits and TV series. Breitkopf + Härtel, Wiesbaden 1978.
- ↑ Sebastian Peters: One more song about the state of the nation: political content in German-language pop songs . Hirnkost, formerly Archiv der Jugendkulturen Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940213-52-5 , p. 447-448 (?) .