Campari Soda (song)

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Campari Soda is a song by the Swiss band Taxi from 1977. It was written by Dominique Grandjean.

history

The group Taxi was initially unsuccessful with the song. Campari Soda only achieved fame through the interpretations of numerous Swiss music greats, including Stephan Eicher , Span , Doppelganger and Golden Boy. In 2006 the original experienced a revival when it was used in a commercial for the airline Swiss and was released as a single for the first time due to the great success of the advertising. With the relaunch, the song immediately made it to 6th place on the official Swiss singles hit parade (high: 3rd place) and stayed in the top ten for eight weeks.

The dreamy singing is accompanied by subtle piano sounds, the song is introduced with a saxophone solo. It is stored with signals in Morse code .

The Romansh version of the song was premiered in 2012 on the occasion of the Romance Literature Festival (Dis da litteratura) in Domat-Ems. The duo Liebestoll, the actress Marietta Jemmi and the pianist Nathan Schocher, combined the song with a cabaret pantomime as a safety instruction on the plane. The translation is by the music journalist Benedetto Vigne.

text

The song, sung in Zurich German , is about the incomparable feeling of flying, about wanderlust and longing.

literature

  • Daum, Matthias: About disappearing. On the history of the best Swiss pop song - "Campari Soda" . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 8, 2006 ( online ).
  • Büttner, Jean-Martin: The singing psychiatrist . Portrait of the singer Dominique Grandjean. In: Tages-Anzeiger , July 31, 2014 ( online )

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