Always on Sundays (song)
| Everytime on Sundays | |
|---|---|
| Cindy & Bert | |
| publication | 1973 |
| length | 3:10 |
| Genre (s) | Bat |
| Author (s) | Dries Holten , Jonny Halvey |
| Label | BASF , Cornet |
| album | Two people and one way |
Every Sunday there is a song by the German pop singer couple Cindy & Bert from 1973. It was also the duo's first top 10 hit in the German single charts and the song with the highest ranking for Cindy & Bert in the charts. It was written by the Dutch musician Dries Holten and the German producer Kurt Feltz under the pseudonym Jonny Halvey. In the same year Cindy & Bert published it in the English version Every Day Is Sunday and translated it into other languages by other musicians and covered it several times .
Text and music
Every Sunday is a hit in 4 / 4 -Stroke , which is written in its original version in German. The song is made up of two stanzas, interrupted by a two-part refrain, which is sung again after the second stanza. The refrain consists of the repeated repetition of the lines “Remembrance comes again and again on Sundays”, followed by a line sung by a choir “Dibbidibbidibbdibb dib” and a few other lines of the song.
The musical accompaniment is adapted to the Greek style and consists of an acoustic guitar, bouzukis and a choir, which begins both after the individual lines and in the chorus. In addition, an even beat is given by a drum sound.
The text describes a couple's memories of a vacation in Greece. He begins by describing the evenings on vacation:
"They came over every Sunday - aha,
our musicians from Athens"
The couple remembers it "again and again on Sundays", while they hear "the bouzukis play, just like on Sunday night when happiness brought us two home."
According to Cindy Berger, it was a shallow song with no background, although the story itself did not describe any memories of its own and was invented by the lyricists.
Publication and response
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The music and the text for Always Again Sundays were written by the Dutch composer Dries Holten and the German lyricist and producer Kurt Feltz, the latter using the pseudonym Jonny Halvey. Until then, Cindy & Bert had mainly sung ballads and initially wanted to decline the offer to sing this hit song. However, Feltz persuaded the couple to record it despite their concerns, and the single was released in February 1973. It was released by record labels BASF and Cornet with the song Souvenirs of a Love on the B-side:
- Again and again on Sundays - 3:10
- Souvenirs of a love - 3:20
The song also appeared on her album Two People and One Way , which was also released in 1973.
The recording entered the German single charts on February 5 of that year and was able to work its way up to number three, making it the duo's first top 10 hit and at the same time their biggest chart hit . In total, it stayed in the charts for 23 weeks. In Austria and Switzerland, the single hit the charts on May 15, 1973. In Austria it rose to number 20 and remained in the charts for a month, in Switzerland it rose to number six and stayed in the charts for eleven weeks. On February 17, 1973, the song was played in the ZDF hit parade with Dieter Thomas Heck as a new performance and was voted number three for March and number one for April.
Cindy & Bert subsequently had other chart successes, especially with the songs of Spain's guitars , But in the evening the Gypsy plays and When the Roses Bloom in Malaga , however, could not achieve the success of Always Again Sundays a second time. Due to its success and popularity, the song was published on numerous Schlager compilations and is still considered a classic of the 1970s.
Cover versions
Occasionally , there was a cover on Sundays and as early as 1973 Cindy & Bert published an English version. The first cover versions appeared in the same year by well-known dance orchestras such as the orchestras of James Last , Max Greger and Udo Reichel, or a version on the Hammond organ by Klaus Wunderlich . In 2008 Cindy Berger recorded the song again as a solo artist. Later, individual satirical versions in the style of punk music and a hip-hop version as part of the program Cover my Song , nominated for the Grimme Prize 2012 , were added.
The bands and performers who released the song in a cover version include: a .:
- 1973: James Last - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree / Every Sunday / Mama Loo (Medley)
- 1973: Orchestra Udo Reichel & The Hiltonaires - every Sunday
- 1973: Klaus Wunderlich - Always on Sundays / SOS / Marina (Medley)
- 1973: Max Greger - Young Day / Every Sunday / Amazing Grace / The gentian blooms in blue (medley)
- 1973: Adam and Mickey’s - Every Wednesday
- 1973: Alice & Rita - Lørdag - otte dage
- 1973: Hannelore - Zaterdag en zondag
- 1974: Claudius Alzner Orchestra - Every Sunday
- 1998: Zuckermund - Every Sunday / The bouzouki sound / Akropolis adieu (Medley)
- 2007: Maybebop - Always on Sundays
- 2008: Cindy Berger - Always on Sundays
- 2008: The foreclosed semi-detached houses - Again and again on Sundays (the memory is missing)
- 2009: Carike Keuzenkamp - Elke liewe skemer
- 2010: The Bockwurschtbude - always on Sundays
- 2011: The Mayor & Vera Int-Veen - Always on Sundays
- 2011: Favorite - Always on Sundays
- 2012: Stefan Mross - Always on Sundays
In addition, the television program Immer wieder sonntags was named after the song , which has been broadcast on ARD since 1995 with breaks and was moderated initially by Max Schautzer and later successively by Sebastian Deyle and Stefan Mross .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Cindy & Bert - Always on Sundays , lyrics on songtexte.com; accessed on September 25, 2020.
- ↑ a b c A song and its story: “Always again on Sundays” by Cindy and Bert , Bayerischer Rundfunk, June 15, 2020; accessed on September 25, 2020.
- ↑ a b Cindy & Bert - Always on Sundays. officialcharts.de, accessed on September 26, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Cindy & Bert - Always on Sundays. hitparade.at, accessed on September 26, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Cindy & Bert - Always on Sundays. hitparade.ch, accessed on September 26, 2020 .
- ^ "From life": The singer Cindy Berger , Saarlandwelle SR3, March 11, 2020; accessed on September 25, 2020.
- ↑ Cindy & Bert - Every Sunday at Discogs ; accessed on September 25, 2020.
- ↑ Cindy & Bert - Two People and One Way at Discogs ; accessed on September 25, 2020.
- ↑ Cindy & Bert - Again and again on Sundays , cover versions on cover.info; accessed on September 25, 2020.