The rattles

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The rattles
The Rattles at the Holsten Brewery Festival 2015
The Rattles at the Holsten Brewery Festival 2015
General information
Genre (s) Beat , rock
founding 1960, 1986
resolution 1977
Website www.rattles.de
Founding members
Achim Reichel (until 1966; 1988–1990)
Herbert Hildebrandt (until 1969; since 1988)
guitar
 Volker Reinhold (1960–1962)
Dieter Sadlowski (1960–1963)
Current occupation
bass
 Herbert Hildebrandt
Drums
 Reinhard "Dicky" Tarrach (1963–1967; since 1988)
guitar
 Max Kretzenbacher (since 2018)
Guitar, vocals
 Eggert Johannsen (since 1994)
former members
Vocals, guitar
 Hans-Joachim Kreutzfeldt (1962–1965)
Vocals, guitar
 Hermann "Rugy" Rugenstein (1965 - ???)
Vocals, guitar
 Frank Dostal (1966–1968)
Vocals, guitar, keyboard
 Henner Hoier (1968–1970, 1988–1990)
singing
 Edna Bejarano (1970–1973)
bass
 Kurt Lüngen (1969–1974)
guitar
 Frank Mille (1969–1977)
guitar
 Manfred Kraski (1990-2018)
Drums
 Herbert Bornholdt (1968–?)
Keyboard, vocals
 Jochen Peters (1973–1977)
Keyboard
 Franz Jarnach (1991-1994)
Keyboard
 Frank Seidel (1995-2007)

The Rattles are a German beat and rock band that was one of the most successful of its genre in Germany in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Band history

2006 live on the May week in Osnabrück

In December 1960 the Rattles were founded in Hamburg by Achim Reichel and Herbert Hildebrandt. On 3 February 1963, the band won a contest at the Hamburg Star-Club and was then the first German band with a commitment to this club. In the fall of the same year they recorded their first single . Then the group went on tour in England for five weeks with Bo Diddley , Little Richard and the still unknown Rolling Stones . In 1966 they stood on stage with the Beatles and played in the opening act of the Bravo Beatles blitz tour in Munich, Essen and Hamburg, with great popularity.

Rattles records appeared, which enjoyed regional success in England, and so they were occasionally celebrated in Liverpool as the "German Beatles ".

In total, the group had a dozen hits, including titles like La La La (1965), Come On and Sing (1966) and Cauliflower (1967). In 1965 they also recorded tracks with Johnny Hallyday ( Let the people talk , It's Monkeytime ), which appeared on the LP / CD Johnny Hallyday meets The Rattles .

In 1970 the Rattles had an international hit with The Witch . The song first appeared as the B-side of the 1969 single Geraldine . In June 1970 The Witch came as A-side up to number 79 in the USA and in October in Great Britain up to number 8. The Rattles line-up at this time: Kurt "Zappo" Lüngen (bass), Rainer Degner (guitar), Peet Becker (drums) and Henner Hoier (vocals), who had switched from the Rivets to the Rattles. Due to the success, the Rattles recorded a new version of The Witch in a new line-up with Edna Bejarano as the singer . This version reached number 4 in the German charts in October 1970. The piece was composed by Herbert Hildebrandt. Henner Hoier, who had sung the original, left the band a year later and founded the Les Humphries Singers with Les Humphries . By this time Achim Reichel had long since left the group. After his military service, he founded the Wonderland group in 1967 with ex-rattles Dicky Tarrach and Frank Dostal as well as Helmut Franke and Les Humphries . The "new" 1970s rattles with Edna Bejarano, Frank Mille, Borny Bornhold and Zappo Lüngen only had to do with the original formation insofar as Herbert Hildebrandt continued to be the group's composer and producer. Other singles like You Can't Have Sunshine Every Day and Devil's on the Loose (both 1971) were only minor hits in the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 1977, the Rattles disbanded after a few other line-up changes. But since 1988 they have been playing regularly at festivals and events with founding member Hildebrandt. On September 26, 2005, the Rattles celebrated their forty-five years of existence with a concert in the "Hamburger Landhaus Walter" and the DVD Beat Made in Germany , which tells the full story of the band.

In 2007 the Rattles released their first studio album in fifteen years, Say Yeah! The record contains 15 new songs and was recorded in the Rattles hometown of Hamburg. The new songs follow the old style that made the Rattles so popular many years ago.

In 2010, on the 50th anniversary of the stage, the band signed with the Hamburg music label Edel Records and released a new studio album, Rattles 50 , with 14 new titles in a new, modern sound. At the same time, newly arranged and recorded greatest hits were released .

Band members

  • Herbert Hildebrandt

  • Manfred Kraski (until 2018)

  • Reinhard Tarrach

  • Eggert Johannsen

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1964 Twist in the Star Club Hamburg DE8 (44 weeks)
DE
First published: April 1964
Twist time in the Star Club DE12 (20 weeks)
DE
First published: May 1964
Live at the Star-Club Hamburg DE48 (4 weeks)
DE
First published: October 1964
1965 The rattles DE39 (8 weeks)
DE
First published: February 1965
1966 Hurray, the rattles are coming DE24 (16 weeks)
DE
First release: March 1966
soundtrack for the film of the same name
1988 Hot Wheels DE62 (1 week)
DE
First published: November 1988

More albums

  • 1964: The Searchers Meet the Rattles ( split album with The Searchers )
  • 1965: Star Club Show 1
  • 1965: Liverpool Beat
  • 1966: Rattle's Greatest Hits "New Recording"
  • 1967: Remember Finale Ligure
  • 1968: Rattles Production
  • 1971: The Witch
  • 1972: Tonight: The Rattles Starring Edna
  • 1974: Gin Mill
  • 1984: Johnny Hallyday meets the Rattles (with Johnny Hallyday )
  • 1990: Painted Warrior
  • 1991: Rattles '91
  • 1992: New Wonderland
  • 1994: Christmas with the Rattles
  • 1997: Live
  • 2007: Say Yeah!
  • 2010: Rattles 50
  • 2012: Need 2 C You
  • 2015: Hotter Than Hell

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1964 Twist in the star club DE10 (12 weeks)
DE
First release: February 1964
split album with The Searchers
1966 Rattles Greatest Hits
 DE19 (12 weeks)
DE
First published: June 1966

More compilations

  • 1970: Rattles' Greatest Hits
  • 1971: The Best of the Rattles
  • 1974: The Rattles!
  • 1979: The Star-Club Tapes (2 LPs)
  • 1986: The Best of the Rattles
  • 1988: The great successes of a super group
  • 1988: The Rattles
  • 1988: With All the Original Hits!
  • 1992: 16 notes
  • 1997: The Greatest Hits
  • 2000: Smash ...! Boom ...! Bang ...! The Singles 1

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT UK UK US US
1965 La La La
Rattle's Greatest Hits "New Recording" 		DE19 (10 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: March 1965
(Stoppin 'In) Las Vegas
Rattles Greatest Hits "New Recording" 		DE20 (18 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: November 1965
1966 Come On and Sing
Rattle's Greatest Hits "New Recording" 		DE11 (14 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: January 1966
Love of My Life
Rattles Greatest Hits 		DE16 (14 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: June 1966
It Is Love
Remember Finale Ligure 		DE26 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: November 1966
1967 Cauliflower
Rattles' Greatest Hits 		DE25 (8 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: May 1967
1968 After Tea
Rattles Production 		DE26 (4 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: May 1968
1970 The Witch
The Witch 		DE4th
gold
gold

(23 weeks)DE 		AT20 (4 weeks)
AT 		UK8 (15 weeks)
UK 		US79 (5 weeks)
US
First published: June 1970
Sales: + 1,000,000
1971 You Can't Have Sunshine Everyday
The Witch 		DE45 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: December 1970
Devil's on the Loose
Story 		DE38 (4 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: September 1971
1988 Hot Wheels
Hot Wheels 		DE47 (10 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: November 1988

More singles

  • 1963: Twist in the Star Club - 3rd episode (release: April)
  • 1963: Twist in the Star Club (release: November)
  • 1963: Star Club Sound Series (released November)
  • 1963: Twist in the Star Club - 7th episode (release: November)
  • 1963: Twist in the Star Club - 9th episode (release: November)
  • 1964: Baby, That Is Rock 'n Roll (released March)
  • 1964: Tell Me What Can I Do (release: April)
  • 1964: What Do You Want with My Baby (released April)
  • 1964: Bye Bye Johnny (release: July)
  • 1964: Go to him (release: November)
  • 1964: Do Wah Diddy Diddy (release: November)
  • 1964: Live at the Star-Club Hamburg (EP; release: November)
  • 1964: Memphis Tennessee (released December)
  • 1965: Shame, Shame, Shame (released January)
  • 1965: Spanish Harlem (release: January)
  • 1965: Let the people talk (Keep Searchin ') ( Johnny Hallyday meets the Rattles; release: May)
  • 1966: Sha-La-La-La-Lee (as The "In" Crowd; release: February)
  • 1966: Land of 1,000 Dances (as The Fixx; release: August)
  • 1966: Take This Hammer (as Our Gang; release: August)
  • 1967: Raindrop (release: December)
  • 1968: Fought the Lord (release: November)
  • 1968: Mr. ... (release: December)
  • 1969: Geraldine (release: April)
  • 1969: Lady Love (release: October)
  • 1970: Fifteen shop
  • 1970: Silly Lilly (release: March)
  • 1970: Funk '70 (release: July)
  • 1972: Money Making Machine
  • 1973: Somethin 'Else
  • 1973: Alabama
  • 1974: Hot Banana
  • 1989: Little Miss Wunderbar (Remix '89)
  • 1990: Painted Warrior
  • 1992: I Drove All Night
  • 1993: No Way Out
  • 2012: Maybe Tonight (The Rattles feat.Ireen Sheer )

Videos

  • 2003: Help the rattles come
  • 2005: The Rattles - Beat Made in Germany

Filmography

  • 1966: Hurray, the rattles are coming (movie)

Awards

RSH gold

  • 1989: in the category "Comeback of the year"

literature

  • Thorsten Knublauch: The Bravo Beatles Blitztournee - Five days of Beatlemania in Germany in June 1966. BOD, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-5356-5 .
  • Werner Walendowski (ed.): The Rattles - The story from 1960 to today ... and the beat goes on. Hommage Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86735-552-0 .

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US1 US2
  2. ^ Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 446 .
  3. Jump up ↑ Joseph Murrells: The Book of Golden Discs: The Records That Sold a Million . 2nd Edition. Limp Edition, London 1978, ISBN 0-214-20512-6 , pp. 285 .

Web links

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