The Other Ones (pop band)

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The Other Ones
General information
origin Berlin , Germany
Genre (s) pop
Current occupation
Alf Klimek
Jayney Klimek
Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski
Stephan Gottwald
Johnny Klimek
Uwe Hoffmann

The Other Ones was a band from Berlin . The singer Alf Klimek , the bassist Johnny Klimek and the singer Jayney Klimek are siblings and come from Australia . The drummer Uwe Hoffmann was born in Berlin. Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski on guitar and Stephan Gottwald on keyboards completed the group.

history

In the second half of the 1980s, the band released a few singles and two albums . The first single, All the Love , was initially unsuccessful in 1986, but the successor, We Are What We Are , became a hit in 1987 and climbed to number 53 on the US Billboard Hot 100 . The third single, Holiday , brought the final breakthrough in the same year, the song became a summer hit and was fourth in Germany , 13th in Austria , 22nd in Switzerland and 29th in the USA. The associated album The Other Ones made it into the German album charts and the Billboard 200 . A few singles were released up to 1988, but they were no longer noticed.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Other Ones
  DE 55 09/14/1987 (2 weeks)
  US 139 05/16/1987 (6 weeks)
Singles
We Are What We Are
  US 53 04/18/1987 (9 weeks)
Holiday
  DE 4th 07/27/1987 (18 weeks)
  AT 13 10/01/1987 (6 weeks)
  CH 22nd 09/06/1987 (6 weeks)
  US 29 08/01/1987 (17 weeks)

Albums

  • 1986: The Other Ones
  • 1988: Learning to Walk

Singles and EPs

  • 1986: All the Love
  • 1987: We Are What We Are
  • 1987: Holiday
  • 1987: Stranger
  • 1988: Money and Gold
  • 1988: Emotional baby
  • 1988: The Other Ones (EP)

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  1. ↑ Chart discography albums (excluding US)
  2. ↑ US albums: Joel Whitburn : Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 . Billboard Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 .
  3. ↑ Chart discography Singles

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