Nicholas Kalita

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Doll (you're a modern hex)
  AT 3 03/01/1982 (18 weeks)
Hello Klaus (I just want to zruck)
  DE 6th 11/22/1982 (27 weeks)
  CH 9 03/27/1983 (5 weeks)

Nikolaus Kalita (born September 11, 1943 in Vienna ) is an Austrian pop musician and composer.

biography

Kalita celebrated some successes in his home country in the 1970s under the stage name Nick Oliver. He then worked successfully as a composer, copywriter and producer of advertising jingles.

In the spring of 1982 he achieved success with the single doll (you are a modern hex) , a cover version of Dave Edmunds ' country song Queen of Hearts interpreted in Viennese dialect .

In 1982 he recorded the song Hallo Klaus (i wü nur zruck) as the duo Nickerbocker & Biene together with the singer Sabine Kopera , whom he had met while recording a laundry detergent commercial . It developed into a top ten hit in the wake of the Neue Deutsche Welle in Germany. Overall, the single stayed in the charts for over half a year. In the meantime the song has been covered several times, including a. by them themselves with their roles reversed under the title Hallo Maus (i wü nur zruck) . In 1984 Nikolaus Kalita published the song Das Ende der Welt under the pseudonym Franzi geht in 'Wienerwald in response to the song Fürstenfeld by STS .

Discography

Albums

  • 1983: late bloomer (as Nickerbocker)
  • 2010: Best of Nickerbocker & Biene

Singles

  • 1970: did you see her? (as Nicky Oliver)
  • 1971: Girly (as Nicky Oliver)
  • 1971: Margie (as Nicky Oliver)
  • 1973: Don't You Know Your Heart Is Mine (as Nicky Oliver)
  • 1973: Give Love a Chance (as Nick Oliver)
  • 1973: Rosie (as Nicky Oliver)
  • 1974: Angela Jones (as Nick Oliver)
  • 1974: Instead of looking holes in the air (as Nickerbocker)
  • 1978: Country Girl (as Nicky Oliver)
  • 1982: Devil Woman (as Nicky Oliver)
  • 1982: Doll (you are a modern hex) (as Nickerbocker)
  • 1982: Hallo Klaus (I wü nur zruck) (as Nickerbocker & Biene)
  • 1982: object of pleasure (as a nicker)
  • 1982: (I am a) Tiger (as Nickerbocker)
  • 1983: Vienna, a good place to live (as Nickerbocker)
  • 1982: Hallo Maus (as Nickerbocker & Biene)
  • 1983: Belmondo (as Nickerbocker)
  • 1983: Hocus pocus (as Nickerbocker & Biene)
  • 1983: Schifoarn (as Nickerbocker)
  • 1984: (You are the) antitype (as Nickerbocker & Biene)
  • 1985: Hunter in the Night (as Nickerbocker)
  • 1999: Hallo Klaus (Z'ruck zu dir) Remix '99 (as Nickerbocker & Biene)

swell

  1. ↑ Chart data: Nickerbocker & Biene Nickerbocker
  2. ↑ Franzi goes to 'Wienerwald: Das Ende der Welt , hitparade.ch
  3. ↑ Franzi goes to 'Wienerwald: Das Ende der Welt , dicogs.com

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personal data
SURNAME Kalita, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pop musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria