You forgot the color film

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You forgot the color film is a hit that was composed by Michael Heubach in 1974 and the text of which comes from Kurt Demmler . Nina Hagen interpreted the title with the Automobil group. It was her biggest hit in the GDR .

history

In 1974 the then 19-year-old Nina Hagen was hired as lead singer by the rock band Automobil . Their keyboardist Michael Heubach was also the group's composer. The composition You forgot the color film was created through improvisation on the piano. The lyrics were written by Kurt Demmler, who until then had mostly composed rock songs. Demmler's first, rejected version was something like "Come on, go to the mountains with me". As a possible hit, the band had the skirt titles almost simultaneously incurred What then provided, however, the decision broadcast of the GDR for the color film.

The song reached top positions in the charts in 1974 and in 1975 still number 40 in the GDR annual hit parade . Heubach received around 10,000 GDR and 500  German marks for the composition  .

description

The song consists of an intro and two stanzas, each followed by the chorus . In the single version the song lasts 3:00 minutes.

In the play, Nina Hagen celebrates a vacation stay on the Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee with her partner "Micha", also "Michael". She is angry because he can only take pictures of the holiday events in black and white because he has not brought any color film. Even when looking at the photo album after her return, she shows her anger and threatens Micha again to leave him if she recurs. In contrast to this, there is the cheerful music, in which, in addition to the initially dominant piano, saxophone and tuba can be heard, and in which minor and major passages alternate. Hagen sings the song in a strong, youthful, pouting voice.

Publications

  • 1974: You forgot the color film / When I think of you (single, Amiga )
  • 1975: You forgot the color film on 20 × Beat (compilation, Amiga)

as well as many other publications after 1990

Cover versions and parodies

Cover versions exist, among others, of Herzbuben , Rockhaus , Goitzsche Front and Radio Havanna as well as AnnenMayKantereit & Die Höchst Eisenbahn . In 2018, JBO released the song As You Forgot Your Smartphone .

literature

  • Jürgen Balitzki: Electra. Lift. Stern Combo Meißen: Stories from the Saxon three. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89602-323-0 , pp. 158, 161.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Song of the month: "You forgot the color film" (1974) , on ddr-museum.de
  2. ↑ a b c Jürgen Balitzki: Electra. Lift. Stern Combo Meißen: Stories from the Saxon three. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89602-323-0 , p. 158.
  3. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 320.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Balitzki: Electra. Lift. Stern Combo Meißen: Stories from the Saxon three. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89602-323-0 , p. 161.
  5. ^ Lyrics ( memento from July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at ostmusik.de, accessed on April 12, 2014
  6. ↑ You forgot the color film , on deltaradio.de, accessed on April 5, 2020