High mountains

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High mountains
Miss Menke
publication April 1982
length 2:49
Genre (s) Neue Deutsche Welle
text Miss Menke, Harald Gutowski
music Miss Menke
album High Mountains (EP)

Hohe Berge is the title of a song by the German singer Frl. Menke that was released in 1982 .

History of origin

The Neue Deutsche Welle reached its first commercial peak in 1981. That year, Franziska Menke, as her real name was, stayed in her father's recording studio . Father and music producer Joe Menke ran a small recording studio with 16-track technology in the basement of the family apartment ( Studio Maschen in Seevetal ; owner today: Alexander Menke). Franziska first began to play the intro on the guitar experimentally , initially an English working title and text was created. Harald "Harry" Gutowski , bassist with Joachim Witt ( Goldener Reiter ), inspired her to write a German text. Franziska began, together with Gutowski, to compile and comment on some terms associated with mountains and mountaineering ( chairlift , mountain station , edelweiss , La Montanara , Luis Trenker ). Franziska Menke wrote the music and wrote the lyrics together with Harald Gutowski. Franziska's voice was finally overdubbed over the music track in the recording studio . In a similar way three more songs were created, which were put together by Polydor for the EP Hohe Berge , all published by her father's music publisher (Edition Joe Menke) .

Miss Menke - high mountains

Publication and Success

Polydor initially planned to extract the title Komm, Computer as a single from the EP. Due to the regional airplay , the label decided on the single Hohe Berge / You must be my coincidence (Polydor # 2042 390), which was released in April 1982.

The title hit the German charts on May 31, 1982, and on August 9, 1982 it was the highest ranked number 10, which it occupied for a week. It was Gutowski's first hit as a music producer . On July 5, 1982, the now under the artist name “Frl. Menke ”appearing singer her title in a short dirndl , optically matching the text, in the ZDF hit parade . Also Markus was his hit I want fun imagine the same evening. The ZDF hit parade had initially tried to ignore the Neue Deutsche Welle, but could no longer escape the pressure of popularity. In total, the single Hohe Berge was sold 2.5 million times, making it one of the most successful titles in the NDW.

Track list

7 ″ single:

  1. High mountains
  2. You must be my chance

12 ″ maximum EP:

  1. High mountains
  2. Come on, computer
  3. Prince wedding in exile
  4. You must be my chance

Web link

High mountains at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GEMA  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / online.gema.de  
  2. ^ Christian Graf, Das NDW-Lexikon , 2003, p. 104