Hello Again (Howard Carpendale song)

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Hello again
Howard Carpendale
publication January 1984
length 3:35
Genre (s) Bat
Author (s) Howard Carpendale, Irma Holder , Joachim Horn-Bernges
Award (s) Silver Lion from Radio Luxembourg
album Hello again

Hello Again is a German-language hit song that was sung by Howard Carpendale and reached the top ten in the German , Swiss and Austrian charts. It is one of Carpendale's most famous songs.

Origin and text

The song was written by Carpendale together with Irma Holder and Joachim Horn-Bernges and produced by Carpendale together with Dieter Weidenfeld . Originally the song was called Alone Again . When Carpendale played it along with four or five other songs by his wife at the time and asked her which one she thought was best, she decided on this one, but had understood Hello Again in the chorus . Carpendale pointed out the misunderstanding, but she said: "But Hello Again is nicer when you've been away for a year." Carpendale only had to say: "You're not wrong." According to Carpendale, the song came with the changed one Text "hit the market and went off like a rocket."

So the song begins with "I was without you for a year / I needed this time for myself ..." The protagonist walks down the street and still sees light in the room of the loved one, decides despite doubts to visit them again.

He comes back to his loved one after apparently leaving her for a surprisingly long time. On his way to her apartment, in which he can still see the lights burning at night, he gets scared of what will happen if he faces her. Nevertheless, he is filled with hope and longing to find the reliability and home that he has left.

Publication and reception

Hello Again was released by EMI in January 1984 . The song quickly became a hit and reached number five in the charts in Germany (19 chart weeks), number ten in Austria (four weeks) and number three in Switzerland (15 weeks). In February 1984 the album of the same name was released. The song is also featured on various compilations , for example on Die Superhitparade on ZDF from 1984. In 1991, an English version of Carpendale was also released.

In the ZDF hit parade , Hello Again was voted second on March 31, 1984 by TED ; Carpendale therefore sang the song again in the following broadcast on April 28, 1984. On January 17, 1985, Carpendale sang the song in the ZDF program Die Superhitparade - Hits des Jahres '84 . He also sang it in the show 50 years of the ZDF hit parade with Thomas Gottschalk on April 27, 2019.

In 1984 Howard Carpendale won the Silver Lion on Radio Luxembourg with the piece .

Cover versions

Cover versions exist among others of:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/kultur/schlagerstar-im-interview-hello-again--howie--28569772
  2. ↑ a b https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/musik/id_84906174/howard-carpendale-ich-wollte-nicht-unbedingt-wie-viele-meiner-kollegen-enden-.html
  3. ↑ a b c d https://hitparade.ch/song/Howard-Carpendale/Hello-Again-1073
  4. ^ Hans-Martin Gutmann : The Trivial as Home . In: Frank Thomas Brinkmann , Johanna Hammann (Ed.): Heimatgedanken . Theological and cultural studies contributions (= Frank Thomas Brinkmann, Andreas Engelschalk, Gotthard Fermor, Hans-Martin Gutmann, Inge Kirsner , Ilona Nord , Harald Schroeter-Wittke [Ed.]: Pop.Religion: Lifestyle - Culture - Theology ). 1st edition. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-22252-9 , pp. 90 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ https://hitparade.ch/song/Howard-Carpendale/Hello-Again-%5Benglish%5D-474881