Peter Lauch

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

The Red Tango (as Die Plover)   DE 29 05/13/1961 (4 weeks) Blue taverns   DE 38 09/01/1962 (8 weeks) The chimney sweep   DE 45 08/15/1964 (4 weeks) It comes from rowing, it comes from sailing   DE 1 09/05/1964 (18 weeks) A sailor like that gets it right   DE 8th 01/02/1965 (13 weeks) In bed   DE 32 06/05/1965 (4 weeks)

Peter Lauch is a German pop singer who was successful with provocative songs together with the plovers in the 1960s . His real name is Horst Christ and he comes from Lahnstein .

Peter Lauch und die Regenpfeifer are among the performers who became known in the 1960s in the tradition of the 1920s and early 1930s with slightly frivolous German-language songs. The plovers first appeared in the charts in 1961, then in 1962 as Peter Lauch & die Regenpfeifer. Their songs were clearly ambiguous and always revolved around the topic number 1. Two years later they could land their big coup. With the title That comes from rowing, that comes from sailing, they attracted so much attention that the song topped the German charts .

Rowing and sailing

The lyrics to the song are about the sailor Hein, who returns home after a trip across the port of Shanghai, an Arab harem and the homeland of the Eskimos and then it says:

Now I can row

now i can sail

now i can catch fish

now I can Rudi-Rudi-Ralala.

Now I can Rudi-Ralala.

The somewhat strange refrain is just a play on words and rowing and sailing actually stand for the vulgar expressions “powdering” and “ birds ”. “Rudi-Ralala” subsequently became a popular expression in everyday language.

With the next seaman's story ( Such a seaman does it right ) Peter Lauch and the plovers were able to add another top ten hit, but then the provocation slowly lost its appeal and the success subsided.

Waning success

This did not change anything because the titles became even clearer and clearer in the following years. So the 65 album was called Nothing for the Spießer , later the happy Rille and Peter Lauchs Sex Magazin appeared . The songs also had less than subtle titles such as hello the flowers and birds beautiful , itch, itch, itch, she likes it , zigzag, zigzag-Bumsvallera and he has it in there .

The plates therefore disappeared under the counter and some of them were given an age rating of 21 years. Accordingly, at the end of the 60s the trail of plovers is lost and they have been forgotten. Not so the song Das geht vom Rudern , which in 2006 was able to celebrate a return to the German charts with a new text in the version by De Randfichten .

swell

1. ^ Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit balance sheet German Chart Singles 1956–1980. Taurus Press, 1987, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 .
2. ↑ Lothar Berndorff, Tobias Friedrich: 1000 ultimate chart hits. Moewig Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86803-272-7 , p. 91.

Web links

• Peter Leek at Discogs (English)