Goombay Dance Band

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Goombay Dance Band
General information
founding 1979
Website Goombay-dance-band.com
Current occupation
Ernest Clinton
Alicia Bendt
Dorothy Hellings
Wendy Doorsen
Mario Slijngaard
former members
Beverlee Wallace
Wendy Walker
Oliver Bendt

The Goombay Dance Band , based in Norderstedt in Schleswig-Holstein , was founded by Oliver Bendt in the late 1970s .

history

Bendt, who sang with the Regensburger Domspatzen when he was a child , was a successful actor and pop singer before founding the Goombay Dance Band. After spending three years in the Caribbean and marrying a local resident there, he returned to Germany and founded the Goombay Dance Band, named after a small bay on the island of St. Lucia . In addition to Bendt and his wife Alicia and the children Danny and Yasmin , Dorothy Hellings, Wendy Doorsen and Mario Slijngaard belonged to the formation.

The group had their breakthrough in early 1980 with the song Sun of Jamaica , which took up the Caribbean atmosphere of the beach and sea and combined Caribbean music with light pop sounds. The single was written by the successful pop composers Ekkehard Stein and Wolfgang Jass . In no time it rose to the top of the German charts , where it stayed for nine weeks, and became the best-selling single of the year. Sun of Jamaica stayed in the German Top 10 for over half a year . The song also came in first in Austria and the Netherlands and was a success in many other countries. To date, the single has been sold almost 11 million times. With Aloha-Oe, Until We Meet Again , Eldorado and Rain , three more hits followed by the beginning of 1981, which, like the first album Zauber der Karibik , reached the top 10 in Germany. Some of the hit hits were produced by German musicians Holger Julian Copp and Hanno Harders ( known as Beagle Music Ltd. in the mid-1980s ).

The formation's greatest international success came in early 1982 with Seven Tears , which was again a Jass / Stein composition based on the folk song of the same name. Released in Germany in the summer of 1981, the song did not get past number 13, in Great Britain the single made it to number 1 . The Goombay Dance Band was the first English singing pop group from Germany to top the British charts for three weeks in a row, and was therefore even entered in the Guinness Book of Records .

After 1982 the band disappeared from the charts, after 1985 initially no singles and albums were released. Nevertheless, the group remained musically active in the following decades and celebrated a comeback in the German album charts in 1995 with the LP Island of Dreams .

For their success, the group was awarded three platinum and twelve gold records , including platinum for the single Sun of Jamaica in Germany and gold for the single Seven Tears in England.

For the 30th anniversary, the group recorded a new album in 2009 called the 30th Anniversary Collection . From this the titles Over the Oceans and In My Dreams were published as download singles. The song Is This the Way to the World Cup was released during the 2010 soccer World Cup .

Ernest Clinton, former front man of the group Soulful Dynamics , has been the new singer of the Goombay Dance Band since 2017 after Oliver Bendt retired at the end of 2016.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1980 Magic of the Caribbean DE3 (24 weeks)
DE
AT1 (5½ months)
AT
- -
First published: May 1980
Land of Gold DE41 (11 weeks)
DE
- - -
First published: November 1980
1981 Holiday in Paradise DE17 (12 weeks)
DE
- - -
First published: July 1981
1982 Tropical dreams DE9 (9 weeks)
DE
- - -
First published: March 1982
Seven Tears - - - UK16 (9 weeks)
UK
First published: March 1982
1995 Island of Dreams DE57 (7 weeks)
DE
- - -
First published: August 1995

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1982: Born to Win
  • 1993: summer, sun, beach
  • 1998: Christmas Album
  • 2009: 30th Anniversary Collection

Compilations

  • 1991: Sun of Jamaica
  • 1999: Caribbean Beach Party
  • 2005: Greatest Hits
  • 2007: Golden Dreams of Eldorado (3-CD box)

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1979 Sun of Jamaica
Sun of Jamaica
DE1
platinum
platinum

(41 weeks)DE
AT1 (28 weeks)
AT
CH3 (17 weeks)
CH
UK50 (4 weeks)
UK
First published: October 1979
Chart entry in UK only in May 1982
1980 Aloha-Oe, Until We Meet Again
Sun of Jamaica
DE5 (22 weeks)
DE
AT1 (12 weeks)
AT
- -
First published: April 1980
Eldorado
Land of Gold
DE4 (27 weeks)
DE
AT14 (18 weeks)
AT
- -
First published: September 1980
1981 Rain
Land of Gold
DE9 (15 weeks)
DE
- - -
First published: February 1981
Seven Tears
Mama Coco
DE13 (24 weeks)
DE
AT15 (4 weeks)
AT
- UK1
gold
gold

(12 weeks)UK
First published: May 1981
Chart entry in UK only in February 1982
Christmas at Sea
Christmas album
DE22 (5 weeks)
DE
- - -
First published: November 1981
1982 My Bonnie
Born to Win
DE50 (10 weeks)
DE
- - -
First published: January 1982

More singles

  • 1979: Ring Ting Ting
  • 1982: Robinson Crusoe
  • 1982: Santorini Goodbye
  • 1983: If You Ever Fall in Love
  • 1983: Born to Win
  • 1984: Don't You Cry, Caroline
  • 1985: A Typical Jamaican Mess
  • 1985: Marlena
  • 1995: Sun of Jamaica '95 Version (& Cool Summer Cuts)
  • 1995: I Love the Melody
  • 1995: Kalimba de luna
  • 1999: Sun of Jamaica (MC Sol feat.Goombay Dance Band)
  • 2005: Sun of Jamaica (Antibazz & Sunstarz feat. Goombay Dance Band)
  • 2009: Over the Oceans
  • 2009: In My Dreams
  • 2010: Is This the Way to the World Cup
  • 2012: Dream of Jamaica
  • 2013: Come Back 2 Jamaica
  • 2013: Aloha Oe (until we meet again)
  • 2014: Life

swell

  1. ^ Hit-Lexikon des Rock und Pop, Frank Laufenberg, Ullstein 2004
  2. NDR "Hitlisten des Nordens" ( Memento from October 17th, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. a b http://www.goombaydanceband.net/bio.html
  4. a b gold / platinum databases: DE UK
  5. Goombay Dance Band feat. Ernest Clinton 2017 (pdf)
  6. a b Chart sources: Singles Albums UK

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