Zager and Evans
| Zager and Evans | |
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 United States
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| Genre (s) | Folk rock |
| founding | 1969 |
| resolution | 1970 |
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| Rick Evans | |
Guitar, vocals |
Denny Zager |
| Last occupation | |
Guitar, vocals |
Rick Evans |
Guitar, vocals |
Denny Zager |
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Zager and Evans were a 1969 and 1970 active folk-rock duo from Lincoln , Nebraska , consisting of guitarists Denny Zager (* 1944) and Rick Evans (1943-2018), who celebrated their only worldwide hit with In the Year 2525 .
Career
Evans and Zager were both members of the band Eccentrics , a quintet founded in 1961 by Denny Zager. After 1964 he formed a new band, the DeVilles , which remained just as unsuccessful as the previous group. That is why Zager and Evans decided in 1968 to perform as a duo in the future. At these performances they presented In the Year 2525, which Zager composed in about half an hour in 1964 . When they saw the audience's interest in the song, they decided to make a record. The title was first released in 1968 as a single on Truth Records.
success
In July 1969, they made it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with their re-released on RCA Victor single In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) , which the title occupied for six weeks. as well as in Switzerland , Germany , the United Kingdom , Canada and other countries. It has been sold at least four million times worldwide.
The lyrics are about the threat to humanity and the earth from technological progress. On the single and the LP of the same name released in the same year, the duo was accompanied by musicians Mark Dalton ( bass ) and Dave Trupp ( drums ). After this world hit, however, they never made it into the top 100 again. With In the Year 2525, Zager & Evans are therefore considered to be the most successful one-hit wonder of all time.
The title has been covered several times , such as B. von Visage , Laibach , Ten Years After , Fields of the Nephilim , Project Pitchfork , Venice Beat , The Twins , Franck Pourcel (instrumental) and Kitbuilders .
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 447 .
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
- ↑ Evans died in February 2018; Obituary: Remembering Rick Evans and In the Year 2525 at journalstar.com; Website not accessible from the EEA due to the DSGV
- ↑ US catalog number: Truth 8082
- ^ Text and music: Rick Evans; Producers: Rick Evans and Denny Zager; US catalog number: RCA 0174
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 666
- ^ Bronson, Fred: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . 3rd revised and expanded edition. New York City, New York: Billboard Publications, 1992, p. 256
- ↑ hitparade.ch
- ↑ Ehnert, Günter (Ed.): Hit balance sheet. German chart singles 1956-1980 . Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1990, p. 222
- ↑ everyhit.com, search mask, "Zager" ; see also: Nugent, Stephen / Fowler, Anne / Fowler, Pete: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974 . In: Gillett, Charlie / Frith, Simon (eds.): Rock File 4 . Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, 1976, p. 370
- ↑ RPM 100, Canada's National Top 100 Singles Survey ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
