When you think, you think, then you just think, you think
If you think, you think, then you just think, you think is a song by the singer Juliane Werding from 1975. It was written by the German singer, lyricist and composer Gunter Gabriel and produced by Peter Meisel . The song is a German pop in country style , the first single and the album of the same name later appeared as the title song. The song is about a young woman who asserts herself against a group of men in a bar in a skat game .
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The song deals with a young woman who goes to relax in a typical pub in the evening, where men drink beer at the bar and play skat at a table . They see it as easy prey, which they can defeat by playing cards. However, she turns the tide and wins the game, she also impresses with her ability to drink and confirms in the refrain:
"When you think, you think, then you just think, you think
A girl can't do this Look into my
eyes
And then look into my face
If you think you think then you just think, you think
You have an easy game
But I know what I want.
So just laugh at me
Because in the end I'll laugh at you. "
In the stanzas she sings about the bar situation and the protagonists very vividly. The pub itself is the place where the men at counters and tables / wipe the foam from their lips and she could already hear them screaming from outside. The game of Skat is also shown very graphically, first describing the order of the stimuli during the game and then their victory:
"And I played and drank with them the
whole night
18, 20, 2, 0, 4, and I pass
Contra, Re, and then to the checkout.
They went very pale because I won the game
That was too much"
The game goes on into the night, until the landlord had already put up the chairs and, like another guest, fell asleep at the bar. The protagonist finally goes home, but at the end of the day she agrees to meet a card player for a “revenge” the next evening.
music
The music is in a country music style typical of Gunter Gabriel. It begins with a percussion , which is then joined by a guitar accompaniment that accompanies the song throughout.
Publication and response
Werding was one of the teenage idols of her time after her number one hit On the day when Conny Kramer died and her first television appearance on the ZDF hit parade in 1972. At the time of publication she was 15 years old and was loved by the young people with her German versions of well-known English-language songs such as Eve of Destruction (A rotten tree does not bear good fruit) or Where Have All the Flowers Gone (Tell me where the flowers are) and her anti-war songs, which appeared on her first album In deep trauer and which made up a large part of her success afterwards.
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In 1975 Gabriel wrote the piece for Werding, which was released as a single by Hansa Musik Produktion in Germany and Austria, on the B-side the song Who has nothing more to lose was recorded:
- If you think you think, then you just think, you think - 3:18
- Who has nothing left to lose - 3:35
After its release, the single rose to number four in the German single charts and stayed in the top 10 for ten weeks and in the hit parade for 22 weeks. It reached the top 10 of the German single charts for the second time after On the day when Conny Kramer died . For a period of ten weeks, the single was the most successful German-language song in the German single charts . In Switzerland she reached its highest chart listing in nine chart weeks with position three and advanced to Werding's second top 10 success on the day when Conny Kramer died , at the same time it was her last chart success in the Swiss single charts . In the course of the year the album of the same name was released with If you think, you think, then you just think, you think, as the title track. With the song she won a Bravo Otto and the Lion of Radio Luxemburg for the second time . In the ZDF hit parade the song was presented on September 20, 1975 and then presented in 3rd place for the following month and 1st on November 22nd, 1975. On August 28, 1976, the song was played again in the special broadcast "Top riders '75 / '76".
Subsequently, Gabriel wrote a few more songs for Werding such as You have to take life as life is and Oh man, Oh man, where does the man only have his eyes , which were less successful.
As with many successful hits of the 1970s, this song was also covered as a dance version and party hit by various individual artists and dance orchestras. In this case, the first cover versions come from, among others, Klaus Wunderlich and Heinz Schlachtner with his dance orchestra from 1976, and a satirical version by radio presenter Hermann Hoffmann under the title If you think you're drinking… was published in the same year. In the German Democratic Republic , the song was only released in 1978 as the B-side of the single Oh Mann Oh Mann, Where Does the Man Only Have His Eyes , published by Amiga .
Werding could not repeat their successes until the 1980s and had their next major success in 1983 with Night Full of Shadows , a cover version of Mike Oldfield's Moonlight Shadow .
Since its release, If you think you think then you just think you think has been published on numerous Schlager compilation albums. Modern cover versions of the song come from the Lollies from 2006, who released the song as a party version, as well as from the pop singers Beatrice Egli (2018), Saskia Leppin together with Gunter Gabriel (2018) and Anina Buchs (2019).
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Juliane Werding - for her 63rd birthday. schmusa.de; accessed on March 8, 2020.
- ↑ a b Juliane Werding - When you think you think, then you just think, you think. officialcharts.de, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Juliane Werding - When you think you think, then you just think, you think. hitparade.ch, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Juliane Werding - If you think, you think, then you only think, you think with discogs ; accessed on March 7, 2020.
- ↑ Juliane Werding - If you think, you think, then you only think, you think with discogs ; accessed on March 7, 2020.
- ↑ Klaus Wunderlich - Wunderlich Pops 4 (Klaus Wunderlich and his New Pop Organ Sound) at Discogs ; accessed on March 7, 2020.
- ↑ Herrmann Hoffmann - If you think you're drinking ... at Discogs ; accessed on March 7, 2020.
- ↑ Juliane Werding - Oh man, Oh man, Where does the man have his eyes at Discogs ; accessed on March 7, 2020.
- ↑ Juliane Werding. cover.info, accessed March 8, 2020 .