Hurray, hurray, the school is on fire
| Hurray, hurray, the school is on fire | |
|---|---|
| Extra wide | |
| publication | 1980 |
| length | 2:36 |
| Genre (s) | Neue Deutsche Welle |
| Author (s) | Kai Havaii , Gerhard Sperling |
| album | Your greatest successes |
Hurray, hurray, the school is on fire is a song by the German band Extrabreit from 1980. It was initially released as the B-side of the single Flieger, greet me the sun - a cover version of the well-known title by Hans Albers - and is on the debut album Ihr greatest hits (1980) included. The single reached number 12 in the German single charts. In 1982, the single appeared again with the A and B sides swapped.
Song info
The title of the play goes to the German feature film Hurray, the school is burning! from 1969 back.
The song was composed and written by the then singer Kai Havaii (Kai Schlasse) and the drummer Käptn Horn (Gerd Sperling).
The text describes young people from the 1980s celebrating the burn down of their school, which is why it was rarely broadcast on the radio because of alleged calls for arson . The song appeared on many compilations for the Neue Deutsche Welle .
Cover versions (selection)
Otto Waalkes modified the text of the song and used it under the title Hurra, hurra, die Hexe burns for his satirizing retelling of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel with songs from the Neue Deutsche Welle .
A cover version of the British pop band Busted from 2003 reached number 19 in the German, number 20 in the Austrian and number 34 in the Swiss charts.
The right-wing extremist band Die Härt converted the text to “ Hurray, hurray, a nigger is burning ” and glorified the murder of a Ku Klux Klan member of a black man. Extrabreit found out about the cover version released in 1999 in 2004 and filed criminal charges against unknown persons.
The band Maggers United played the song under the title Hurray, Hurray, the room is burning in the 2007 film No Covenant for Life .
The band SDP covered the song in 2014, only the chorus was retained lyrically. The stanzas have been completely rewritten with some references to the original and strong adjustments have been made to the time.
Individual evidence
- ^ Cover 1980 and 1982 .
- ↑ Regular school in a state of emergency. www.heise.de, April 3, 2006, accessed on January 22, 2011 .
- ↑ GEMA online database - musical works. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 17, 2013 . ( 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.
- ↑ Weirdness from the jukebox. www.heise.de, November 14, 2004, accessed on January 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Hurray, Hurray, The School is Burning. www.allmusic.com, accessed January 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Mieder : Hansel and Gretel: The fairy tale art, music, literature, media and caricatures, Praesens, 2007, ISBN 978-3706904698 , p. 81 online
- ↑ Busted - Hurray Hurray the school is on fire at hitparade.ch
- ↑ Busted - Hurray Hurray the school is on fire at austriancharts.at
- ↑ Protection of the Constitution of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Contempt for human beings with entertainment value . March 2005, p. 20 ( nrw.de [PDF]). Contempt for human beings with entertainment value ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
