Hey, Hey, baby
| Hey, Hey, baby | |
|---|---|
| Karel Gott | |
| publication | September 28, 1970 |
| length | 3:45 |
| Genre (s) | Bat |
| Author (s) | Karel Svoboda , Jiří Štaidl |
| Producer (s) | Jiří Štaidl, Michael Prostějovský |
| album | Hity '71 |
Hej, Hej, Baby is a Czech-language hit song that was sung by Karel Gott and in the German-language version once around the world reached the top 10 of the German and the top 20 Austrian charts . The German version in particular is one of Gott's most famous songs.
Origin and text
The song was written by Karel Svoboda together with Jiří Štaidl and produced in the original Czech version by Štaidl with Michael Prostějovský. Otto Demler produced the German version . The German-language text, which was written by Fred Weyrich , is about the longing to be able to travel the world carefree and with sufficient financial means. The lack of freedom to travel in Czechoslovakia at that time and the closeness to the communist regime, which was at times accused of being close to the communist regime, which the normal citizen did not guarantee, but God did, form the historical framework for the song. The refrain reads: “Once around the whole world / and pockets full of money / that you do not miss any love or happiness. / See many foreign countries / go for a walk on the moon / I dreamed of that as a little boy. "
Publication and reception
Hej, Hej, Baby was published in 1970 by Supraphon , the German-language version in September 1970 by Polydor . The song quickly developed into a hit and reached number ten in the charts in Germany (14 chart weeks) and number 17 in Austria (four weeks). The song, especially the German version, is also included on various compilations . In 2009, Gott recorded a version of the title with Udo Lindenberg .
Gott did not appear in the ZDF hit parade with the 1970 song. However, he later sang it in two editions of the super hit parade , hits that you won't forget on November 18, 1982 and Die Superhitparade from ZDF Fernsehgarten 1969–1973 on August 28, 1994. He was also around on December 6, 1970 Peter Alexander in the ZDF / ORF program Peter Alexander presents specialties as a guest.
The Berliner Zeitung wrote that the desire to travel came “almost hippiesque transfigured” in the song: “ Woodstock and the moon landing came together here in a great narrative of longing.”
Cover versions
There are cover versions of Los Paraguayos ( Mundo de paz ), Die Junge Tenöre and Christian Duss ( Einisch um diä allemi Wält ) , among others .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_86554246/zum-tod-von-karel-gott-hier-koennen-sie-seine-groessten-hits-hoeren.html
- ↑ a b c https://archiv.berliner-zeitung.de/panorama/karel-gott-feiert-80--geburtstag-einmal-um-die-ganze-welt--32850974
- ↑ a b c https://hitparade.ch/song/Karel-Gott/Hej,-hej,-baby-848985
- ↑ a b https://hitparade.ch/song/Karel-Gott/Einmal-um-die-ganze-Welt-21071
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Karel-Gott-Einmal-Um-Die-Ganze-Welt/release/1232435
- ↑ https://hitparade.ch/song/Karel-Gott-mit-Udo-Lindenberg/Einmal-um-die-ganze-Welt-633374
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkci0xahvQA