Hawaii tattoo
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Hawaii Tattoo is an instrumental piece by the Belgian group "The Waikikis" from 1961.
history
The piece is thanks to the initiative of the record producer Horst Fuchs, who had contacts with a Belgian group of studio musicians who went by the name “The Waikikis ” and for whom he was looking for music numbers with a Hawaiian flair: “ I needed songs that I would among others, Hans Blum and Martin Böttcher wrote. At first Böttcher didn't come across with his title. But when I nudged it, Hawaii Tattoo was ready within half an hour. "Böttcher wrote the song under the pseudonym " Michael Thomas ".
In 1961 the first four “Waikikis” titles were produced - including Hawaii Tattoo , which developed into an international success: “ In Germany, the bottom line was around 600,000 units. Internationally we came to a total of 2.5 million, ”says Horst Fuchs. In December 1961, Hawaii Tattoo came into the top 50 of the German music charts , where it stayed for 37 weeks, including 21 weeks in the top 10, and climbed to number 4. Hawaii Tattoo also made it into the American Billboard charts , but only around three years later.
The well-known recording of the Hawaii Tattoo was probably arranged by Willy Albimoor, the chief, arranger and pianist of the "Waikikis"; Martin Böttcher himself made a recording (which only sounds a little like Hawaii) under the pseudonym Mike Thomas and his Wall Street Babies under the title Hawaii Tattoo Dixie . In the 1962 film Max, the Pickpocket , for which Böttcher wrote the music, Hawaii Tattoo can be heard in the version of the "Waikikis" as background music from a jukebox.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Chart Singles 1956 - 1980, Taurus Press, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 .