Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
  DE 5 01/01/1970 (15 weeks)
  AT 8th 02/15/1970 (12 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 01/20/1970 (10 weeks)
  UK 9 January 31, 1970 (14 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link October 18, 1969 (16 weeks)

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye is a 1969 Steam song written by Paul Leka , Gary DeCarlo, and Dale Frashuer. The former also produced the song that can be found on the band's self-titled album.

history

When songwriters Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer were still members of The Chateaus in the early 1960s , they composed the song in a blues version. The group later broke up and Leka persuaded DeCarlo and Frashuer to travel with him to New York to change the song and possibly produce it. In 1968 DeCarlo Lieder recorded four songs on Mercury Records in New York with Leka as producer. The record company was so enthusiastic about the four recordings that they would have loved to publish all of them as A-sides, and that's where the question of the B-sides arises. They dug up the piece Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye from the past, remodeled it and redesigned the situation.

DeCarlo sang the song in a recording session. Instead of recording the entire song with the band members, including the instrumentation, they did it alone. Leka plays the keyboard, DeCarlo sang and Angie DiGeronimo hit the drums. Sound engineer Warren Dewey mixed all sound tracks together. In an interview Leka said: "I said we should put a chorus to it (to make it longer)" (German: I think the song needs a refrain (to round it off)). He also added: "I started writing while I was sitting at the piano going 'na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na' ... Everything was 'na na' when you didn't have a lyric . " Gary added "hey hey". (German: I started to write when I was sitting at the piano and came up with 'na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na' ... Everything was 'na na' and I didn't know what to do next. Gary added "hey hey").

Released on October 17, 1969, the pop song became a number one hit in the United States and Switzerland . In WWE , viewers sing the song when a superstar or manager is fired. It is also well received at the Twenty20 Cup .

At the inaugurations in 2009 and 2017 , the guests sang the song to the retired Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama .

On May 4, 2017, when the United States House of Representatives tried to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , representatives of the Democratic Party sang the hit. This also affected the 2018 election to the United States House of Representatives . DeCarlo was happy to use it even though he's against Obamacare . This was not the first time that the song has found political use: In 1993 the Republican Party sang it in the symbolic sense, after which a tax reform was implemented by Bill Clinton .

In January 2019, the song could be heard in an advertisement for the GMC Sierra .

Cover version of Bananarama

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
  UK 5 02/26/1983 (10 weeks)

In 1983, Bananarama released their version of the song, which appeared on the album Deep Sea Skiving . It was released on February 14, 1983, it made it to number 5 in Great Britain and number 38 in Australia. Although it corresponds to the New Wave music genre , the instrumentation was strongly based on the original.

Music video

The music video begins with the band members on a schoolyard hopscotch play and is then stopped by a couple of thugs. Bullied away, they join a boxing club and learn to defend themselves. At the end of the clip, the girl group returns to the schoolyard, takes revenge on the rowdies and annexes their motorcycles.

Other covers

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart placements: chartsurfer.de accessed June 9, 2019
  2. ↑ Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits 2003.
  3. ↑ Flashback: Bush booed, mocked by 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye' song at '09 Obama inaugural . 20th January 2017.
  4. ↑ Ken Stone. " 'Hey Hey, Goodbye' songman liked Dems' House chant, not Obamacare ". MyNewsLA.com. May 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ Matthew Haag: Democrats Republicans Taunt With 'Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye' During Health Vote . In: The New York Times . 4th May 2017.
  6. ↑ Chart placements: chartsurfer.de accessed June 9, 2019
  7. ↑ David Kent : Australian Chart Book 1970-1992 , Illustrated. Edition, Australian Chart Book, Sydney 1993, ISBN 0-646-11917-6 , p. 25.