Guildo loves you!

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Guildo loves you!
Guildo Horn & The Orthopedic Stockings
publication March 2, 1998
length 2:58
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Stefan Raab
album Thank you!
Guildo Horn, 2015

Guildo loves you! was the German contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 , which was presented by Guildo Horn & the Orthopedic Stockings . The song reached the 7th place with 86 points. The piece was composed by Stefan Raab , who published it under the pseudonym "Alf Igel", a parodic allusion to Ralph Siegel . The song was produced by Alf Igel (Stefan Raab) in collaboration with "old master" Michael Holm .

Content and background

Guildo Horn sings about a declaration of love to his fans, he cheers them up in bad times. He tells of a beautiful past time full of love and of his "little world", in which people are nice and honest to one another. Even before Guildo Horn took part in the Eurovision Song Contest , Bild-Zeitung asked the following question:

"Can this man sing for Germany?"

The press reported mostly negative about Guildo Horn's involvement and thus got him a lot of media attention. On February 26th, 1998 in the German preliminary decision of the Eurovision Song Contest, 60% of the votes decided for the song Guildo hat dich lieb!

Ralph Siegel, who was parodied by Stefan Raab, also took part in the preliminary round with three titles and three different artists. The weekly show parodied the song with a Guido Westerwelle version called Guido Hörnchen - Guido loves you .

Eurovision Song Contest Results

Scoring for Germany:

Points number countries
12 points 3 Spain , Switzerland , Netherlands
10 points 1 Portugal
8 points 2 Slovenia , Ireland
7 points 1 Belgium
6 points 2 Romania , UK
5 points 0
4 points 0
3 points 1 Greece
2 points 0
1 point 2 Finland , Estonia
0 points 12 Croatia , France , Slovakia , Poland , Israel , Malta , Hungary , Cyprus , Sweden , Norway , Turkey , Macedonia

Due to a transmission error, the 12 points awarded by Spain to Germany were initially not taken into account in the overall ranking. The error was subsequently corrected by the BBC, so that the song could improve by one place from 8 to 7.

publication

The song was released on CD single (spin records / EMI Electrola) with the following titles:

  1. Guildo loves you! (Grand Prix Version) (Alf Igel)
  2. Guildo loves you! (Club Mix) (Alf Igel)
  3. Thank you! (Michael Maria Schneider, Jake Diamond, Johannes Kram)

Tracks 1 and 3 are also on the album Thank you! contain.

Chart placements

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 4th (16 weeks) 16
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 37 (1 week) 1
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 17th (4 weeks) 4th

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. a b c officialcharts.de
  2. eurovision.tv
  3. einestages.spiegel.de
  4. musikguru.de
  5. stefan-niggemeier.de
  6. a b c einestages.spiegel.de
  7. stefan-niggemeier.de
  8. myvideo.de
  9. eurovision.tv ; dated May 9, 1998, accessed November 11, 2012
  10. Wissen.de ( Memento from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  11. a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH
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