The hickey

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The hickey
Ixi
publication 1983
length 4:01
Genre (s) Neue Deutsche Welle
text Ixi, Balthasar Schramm
music Balthasar Schramm, Felix Kautsky
album Hickey (all hits in maxi versions)
Cover version
1995 Reunion: Knutschfleck '95 feat. Ixi
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
The hickey
  DE 8th 04/11/1983 (16 weeks)
  AT 12 07/01/1983 (4 weeks)

The Knutschfleck is a song by the German singer Ixi from 1983 . The music was written by Balthasar Schramm and Felix Kautsky ; the text is by Ixi and Balthasar Schramm.

background

The previous single Detlev , which was not a great success, but brought in enough money, gave Ixi the opportunity to publish another single. Compared to the previous single, which is about how a girl wants to send her boyfriend on the line , The Knutschfleck was a rather harmless song. The song is about a girl who allows her boyfriend to do anything but not a hickey . The song is attributed to the Neue Deutsche Welle .

The song was released as a single in 1983. In addition to the original version with 4 minutes and 2 seconds, a "long version" with 5 minutes 27 seconds was also published on 12 ". On the B-side of both versions there was I xxxx you . The song was also released on Der Knutschfleck (all hits in maxi version) , the only album (basically a compilation ) in Ixi's short career.

The hickey was Ixi's only hit . It was placed in the German single charts for 16 weeks and reached number 8 as the highest position. In Austria it came in at number 12 and stayed in the charts for four weeks.

Republication

In 1995, in the wake of the pop techno wave in the mid-1990s, a new arrangement by Der Knutschfleck was produced under the title Der Knutschfleck '95 . Ixi himself had re-sung the text. The music came from Reunion, a production team put together by Felix Kautsky. A video was also produced for the song, which contained many kissing scenes. By Mercury Single located only in the promo period remained below expectations and was ultimately released only a few pieces for promo purposes. The video was also withheld. The song was later made available to a wider audience on the New German Dancefloor Level 3 sampler by Polystar .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT
  2. ↑ GEMA research
  3. ↑ Ixi. Ichwillspass.de, accessed on May 5, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Peter Norman: Pure possibilities: German rhyming prose, page 52, ISBN 978-3839156520
  5. ↑ Winfried Longerich: "Da da da": to determine the location of the Neue Deutsche Welle , p. 192
  6. ↑ The Hickey on Discogs
  7. ↑ Der Knutschfleck (All hits in maxi version) on Discogs
  8. ↑ Chart source: AT
  9. ↑ NDW - Walls of gray cities. The New Deutsche Welle 1977–85 . Bear Family 2015. pp. 12-15
  10. ↑ NDD - New German Dancefloor Level 3 on Discogs