The 3 Besoffskis

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The 3 Besoffskis
General information
Genre (s) Bat
founding 1974
resolution 1985
Founding members
singing
 Horsti Stinkstiefel (Horst Götze)
singing
 Joe Raphael (Helmut Flohr)
singing
 Schorsch Manning (Georg Manning)

The 3 Besoffskis were a German comedy hit group that focused on mood and drinking songs . The band was one of the first in Germany to achieve success with coarse lyrics about alcohol and sexual issues, and is therefore considered to be a trailblazer for the later Ballermann music culture.

history

The group's founder was Helmut Flohr (1931–2009), who had already published a few singles as a pop singer and chansonnier in the 1960s under the pseudonym Joe Raphael. He founded in 1970 in Baden-Baden , the label Juventus and there published further own recordings and tracks from Billy Mo . After Tony Marshall, also from Baden-Baden, had a surprise success with the mood song Schöne Maid in 1971 , Raphael also switched to mood music. For the rewritten folk song Life brings great joy (Raphael's text: It doesn't matter whether you're a chicken or a rooster ) he engaged the mood musician Georg Manning from Nordhorn. The title was a success and sold around 50,000 times. The subsequent title with Manning, Roses, Tulips and Daffodils was also successful. Raphael and Manning performed numerous concerts as a duo in the early 1970s. From 1973 Raphael produced his own mood music publications as Joe Raphael and the Party Singers. At that time, Horst Götze, the founder of the Flower label, also joined. Together they decided to make mood music with rough lyrics as a trio under the name Die 3 Besoffskis.

The blueprint for the group's productions had already been laid by the title Scheißegal (which they later recorded again): well-known folk tunes served as melodies, about which crude and obscene texts, mostly written by Manning, were sung. Most of the productions took place in the Bauer recording studio . The pieces were often arranged by Pete Tex and mostly recorded by Joy Fleming 's band Hitkids at the time and brass players from Südfunk Stuttgart . The distribution of the records was mostly done through the jukeboxes because the songs were not suitable for radio. After the Besoffskis' debut single, A Beautiful White Ass from 1974 , their biggest hit was the 1975 Puff of Barcelona , which is based on the melody of the Neapolitan folk song Funiculì, Funiculà .

The group released numerous singles in the following years based on the same principle. Above all, Raphael and Götze, who took care of the marketing of the records with their labels, benefited from the business. Texter Manning meanwhile ran a bar in Baden-Baden and fell out with Raphael and Götze for financial reasons in the early 1980s. Without the copywriter and live entertainer Manning, the end of the 3 Besoffskis was sealed. Horst Götze (as Horsti Stinkstiefel) and Joe Raphael (as Joe Raphael and the Party-Singers) then released some singles solo and as a duo (as Horsti and Joe), but could no longer build on the success of the Besoffskis. Her labels Juventus and Flower acquired the Duisburg label AZ-Records towards the end of the 1980s, which later released a few publications by the Besoffskis.

Discography (excerpt)

  • The Big Wildsau Party (LP)
  • The big wild boar party (LP)
  • Barcelona Pouf (Single)
  • Group sex in a retirement home (single)
  • Do you have brandy in your bloodstream (single)
  • In Hollywood the puff is broken (single)

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