Litter box
| Litter box | |
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| Helge Schneider | |
| publication | 1993 |
| length | 3:00 |
| Genre (s) | Schlager , jazz |
| Author (s) | Helge Schneider |
| album | There's rice, baby |
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Katzenklo was the third single release by the German entertainer Helge Schneider . It was released in 1993 as the first single from his most successful album to date, There are rice, baby .
admission
The piece was composed and recorded in 1993 in Schneider's Transatlantic Vanguard studio in Styrum . He is accompanied as a band Hardcore by his fellow musicians Buddy Casino (organ) and Peter Thoms (drums).
content
Cat toilet is musically reminiscent of the jazz hit of the 1950s, but lyrically it parodies the genre, merely claiming that a "cat toilet can make the cat happy". Peter Thoms can be heard as a background singer and a vibraphone solo sounds at the end.
Music video
In the music video, Schneider poses in front of his Hammond organ , mimes a vibraphone solo like an amateur and shows drawings as well as a cat and a litter box.
meaning
Katzenklo is Schneider's best-known single and is considered his "main work". On March 12, 1994 he played the piece on Wetten, dass ..? and reached there an audience of 16 million viewers, which meant the final breakthrough for him.
Others
The inspiration for the song was Schneider's cat Fritz. In 1994 Schneider released a 6-minute version as a cat toilet Spectaculaire! .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT
- ↑ Mister Katzenklo - Helge Schneider turns 50 - WDR Documentation 2005
- ↑ Helge Schneider's unflattering nickname. Evening newspaper on May 27, 2014 (accessed May 1, 2016).