Mother, the man with the coke is here (Falco song)

Mother, the man with the coke is there is the title of a single by the Austrian musician Falco from 1996. The song was written by Peter Hoffmann , Franz Plasa and Edgar "Eddy" Höfler .

The song

The title is based on the Berlin street hit mother of the same name , the man with the coke is there from the late 19th century, but only has the text of the refrain in common. Musically there is no connection between the two songs.

After Falco had released his album Nachtflug in the summer of 1992 , he withdrew for a few years. Towards the end of 1994, he began preparing for his musical comeback. When he played some songs, including Push! Push! and Europe was showing his record company in an as yet unfinished state, it came up with the idea of preparing Falco's style for dance . In February 1996 the single Mother, The Man With Coke Is There was released. In order to avoid the high pressure of expectations of the media, Falco chose the pseudonym T> MA as the interpreter (later it was expanded to T> MA aka Falco ). The track was produced by Eddy Höfler, Peter Hoffmann and Franz Plasa, George Glueck was also involved.

In the text of this song, which is characterized by fast dance beats, Falco plays with the double meanings of the word “coke” (as cocaine and as a coal product “ coke ”) and with the word “coal” (as a coal product and, colloquially, as money ). The sisters Inga Humpe and Annette Humpe sing in the chorus of the song .

In the European charts came mother, the man with the coke is there up to number 25. In Austria , the single rose to number 3, in Germany it reached number 11.

It was Falco's penultimate single that was in the charts during his lifetime; Falco died in a car accident in 1998.

Trivia

• "Sorry George that it took so long, but I was outside shooting garden gnomes", Falco reported on the phone to George Glueck, who built this into the music video.
• In the music video, when she was 8 at the time, the later Austrian MP for the National Council, Philippa Strache , played.
• At the end of December 2012, the German dark metal band Eisregen released a cover version of the song on their compilation Krebskollektion .
• In 2020 the song Mutter, inspired by this song, by the Dutch DJ Jebroer and the Austrian DJ duo Harris & Ford was released .

Web links

• Single info on austriancharts.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release date
2. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Lanz: Falco. The biography. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-8000-7281-1 , p. 229.
3. ↑ www.songbrief.de, accessed on June 19, 2020
4. ↑ red: Unknown past of Philippa Strache on video. Retrieved June 18, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Eisregen, details on the double album Krebskollektion at Metal 4, November 9, 2012 ( Memento from November 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )