Hey music
Hey Music is an international hit parade that started on September 20, 1967 at the former radio station Sender Freies Berlin . It is the oldest still running hit parade in Germany and is currently broadcast on rbb 88.8 after several channel changes .
Beginning
On September 20, 1967 at 7.30 pm, Rainer Bertram greeted the listeners of the first edition of the international hit parade of Sender Free Berlin with the words "Hello, people". It was the idea of SFB music editor Klaus Werker as an answer to the successful hit of the week with Lord Knud in the RIAS . The program initially ran once a month, a little later every fortnight and then every week on Thursday.
Jürgen Juergens (1952–2018) had heard the program as a schoolboy from the first episode and regularly participated in writing. After an interview with Rainer Bertram for his school newspaper Die Pauke , he was invited to announce three singles on November 11, 1969. After that he was allowed to regularly present LP titles in the show as a guest presenter. He got his first show Just arrived , in which he also introduced new tracks for Hey Music . Rainer Bertram, actually an actor and pop singer ( Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Beach Bikini ) , left the show for his directorial work, including Everything Nothing Or ?! with Hella von Sinnen and Hugo Egon Balder .
From August 19, 1970, the Austrian Patrick Krebitz, who worked as a DJ in Berlin, presented the program in close collaboration with Juergens. When Krebitz left Berlin, Jürgens took over Hey Music completely on July 5, 1972 .
As the theme song in the 1970s, the instrumental title served Jump For Joy by Biddu Orchestra in the 1980s by Phil Lynott and Midge Ure written piece Yellow Pearl , the 1981 to 1986 in the British music show Top of the Pops as a theme has been used.
Live and television productions
With the “Hey Music Parties” held monthly in schools and youth discos such as Sloopy , dachluke and Pop Inn , enthusiasm for the program grew among young listeners. The highlights of this series were the parties on October 13, 1979 in the Deutschlandhalle on the occasion of the 75th Berlin six-day race with the Berlin band Bel Ami , Oliver Onions , Bernie Paul , Gilla and Chi Coltrane and on May 11, 1980 with the Berlin youth club with Nick Straker , Peter Kent , Dr. Koch Fan , Nighthawks and the Puhdys . 1983 followed another cooperation with the Pop Inn and his DJ Klaus Schäfer with UKW , the Neonbabies (with Inga Humpe ), Geier Sturzflug and Hans Hartz .
On July 14th, as well as on August 4th, 18th and 25th, 1994, Jürgens showed his 30-minute Hey Music TV specials with interviews and self-produced clips on the third SFB TV program at 11:05 p.m.
Wave changes and anniversaries
The radio waves changed, the show Hey Music stayed. The individual stations were SFB 1, SFB 2, Radio 4 U (as Top 98.2 - Hey Music ), Stadtradio Berlin 88.8 and 88 Eight. With the start of Stadtradio Berlin 88.8, Hey Music had to adapt the content to the broadcaster's hit format. Christian Eckhardt and Jürgen Jürgens moderated together for four hours on Sunday. Eckhardt left the station because he wanted to work more intensively as an actor and director under his real name, Hans-Eckart Eckhardt .
Hey Music has been running every Monday evening on Radio Berlin 88.8 since November 7, 2005, where Jürgens was the music director until his death. On October 26, 2007 Hey Music celebrated its 40th anniversary in the Tempodrom with Suzi Quatro , The Sweet , The Shadows (with Bruce Welch ) and guest appearances by Silly , PR Cantata , Peter Hubert von UKW, Dirk Michaelis and Helen Schneider . In addition, the special anniversary edition 40 Years of Hey Music - 40 Years of Pop History was published , in which Juergens told personal anecdotes from his work and caricatured pop stars.
On November 8, 2010, the 2000th program was broadcast.
On November 19, 2017 Jürgen Jürgens retired, on the occasion of which the rbb organized a gala under the name 50 Years of Hey Music - Thank you, Jürgen Jürgens! which was broadcast on Radio Berlin 88.8 and on rbb television . Afterwards, Anke Friedrich presented the hit parade in a new form. Since February 10, 2019, Uwe Hessenmüller has been moderating the program on rbb 88.8 on Sundays between 5 and 7 p.m.
literature
- Jürgen Jürgens: 40 years of Hey Music - 40 years of pop history . (published by RBB as a limited special edition).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Top of the Pops 2 - Trivia - Part 2 - The Glam Years. British Broadcasting Corporation , August 2006, accessed November 11, 2010 .
- ↑ 50 years of "Hey Music": Germany's longest-serving hit parade is retiring - and with it its maker Jürgen Jürgens. In: press release. rbb, November 17, 2017, accessed May 22, 2018 .