Sugar doll (from the belly dance troupe)
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| Bill Ramsey | |
| publication | 1961 |
| length | 3:36 min. |
| Genre (s) | Bat |
| Author (s) | Hans Bradtke , Heinz Gietz |
| Producer (s) | Kurt Feltz |
| Label | Polydor |
Zuckerpuppe (from the belly dance troupe) is a humorous song by the German-American pop singer Bill Ramsey together with the Kurt Edelhagen orchestra from 1961. It was written by Hans Bradtke and Heinz Gietz and reached number 5 in the German single charts , in which it was represented for six months. It is one of the best-known songs and the biggest chart hits of the singer. It was also used for the hit film On Sunday, my sweetie wants to go sailing with me .
Background and publication
The music and the text for Zuckerpuppe (from the belly dance troupe) come from Hans Bradtke and Heinz Gietz. The single was produced by Kurt Feltz and released by Polydor in June 1961 ; the B-side was The Girl with the Exciting Gang , a cover version of the 1961 song Banned In Boston by Merv Griffin with Sid Bass & Orchestra and Choir.
The film My sweetie wants to go sailing with me on Sunday was mass-launched in German cinemas on October 13, 1961. In the film, Bill Ramsey plays the musician "Bill" and plays the song in a local scene at the piano with several musicians and dancers, Rex Gildo plays the double bass in the scene . Also in 1961 Zuckerpuppe could be heard in the film Adieu, Lebewohl, Goodbye . Titles marketed as "film hits" have often been very successful since the 1950s due to their media coverage.
As a classic, the song was subsequently on numerous compilation albums both as collections of Bill Ramsey's greatest successes as well as together with other hits. Ramsey himself played the song regularly at concerts and also had it in his last concert on October 31, 2019.
Music and lyrics
Zuckerpuppe (from the belly dance troupe) is a humorous hits in 4 / 4 -Stroke , which is written in German. The musical accompaniment took over the orchestra Kurt Edelhagen with a Jazz - Big Band duty system.
The song begins with the single note of a Güiro , which is used in the stanzas on the first beat . You can also hear a piano , a plucked double bass , wood and brass instruments , drums and a carillon in the chorus . The singer is supported by a mixed choir, who both sings the text and accompanies instrumental passages onomatopoeically.
The structure comprises three stanzas with a refrain in between. The first line of stanzas begins with an introductory question ("Do you know the sugar doll") and in the following stanzas with a statement ("Because this sugar doll") about the song's protagonist, each time followed by the line "from the belly dance troupe" Verses form a pair of rhymes . This is followed by two embracing rhymes [bccb], of which the second again encompasses lines of verse with “sugar doll” and “belly dance troupe”. The refrain inserted between verses 1 and 2 and between 2 and 3 only differs in the last two lines of verse, in which the singer describes the effect women have on him as a lyrical self .
In the text of the hit, the protagonist tells of a belly dance performance by a famous dancer in Morocco , who inspires him and the audience with her dance during the performance. He describes the dancer as:
“The cute little bee
with the tulle curtain in
front of the babydoll face?
Suleika, Suleika is the name of the little mouse.
That is the name of the sugar doll from the belly dance troupe,
and that's exactly what she looks like. "
During the dance, the dancer increasingly fixates on him and comes up to him to finally sit on his lap. In the last stanza she reveals her veil in front of his face and surprises him:
"Then the sweet bee suddenly raised
her tulle curtain in
front of me.
'Elfriede, Elfriede!' I called through the hall,
because I knew the sugar doll from the belly dance troupe from Wuppertal! "
Charts and chart placements
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The song Zuckerpuppe (from the belly dance troupe) entered the German single charts for the first time on August 1, 1961 and reached its highest rating with fifth place. It stayed in the charts for a total of six months, including three in the top 10. On January 1, 1962, it was recorded for the last time in the charts. In Austria and Switzerland , however, the song could not place itself.
Bill Ramsey reached the German single charts for the sixth time with the song and it was his fourth top 10 hit after Wumba-Tumba chocolate ice cream seller in 1958 and the number one hits Souvenirs 1959 and Pigalle also in 1961. In the following year, 1962, he came with Without a thriller, Mimi never goes to bed and in 1963 she made it into the top 10 again with a masked ball at Scotland Yard .
resonance
Text reception
The expression “sugar doll”, derived from the names for a candy (also Zuckermann, Zuckerkind) , can be traced back to the 19th century as a term of endearment or as an expression “for something fragile, to be treated gently” or children or young women. The Germanist Matthias Schulz cites the Schlager Zuckerpuppe as a clue that the endearing word acquired a coarse, sexualized connotation in the middle of the 20th century, which - despite all the asymmetry of the term towards women - could not be historically proven.
The lyricist Hans Bradtke is - according to Christian Pfarr in his hit story Ein Festival im Kornfeld 1997 - "one of the best comedy writers of the German hit." His text, combined with Bill Ramsey's talent, is a "musical sketch" that "also the hundredth time ignites [t] ”. The text starts out rather unimportant, at the same time quite chauvinistic (“sugar doll”, “little sweet bee” etc.) and the lines “and many a son of the desert has already seen it ... as a mirage” are a short one, but - due to its defusing - more witty " Herrenwitz ". Only the typical interpretation of Bill Ramsey is so captivating and downright grotesque that listeners couldn't help but expect a punch line that would follow immediately.
Pfarr sees the sugar doll in the form of a "humorous picture story" as one of the two prototypes of the humorous post-war hit, which shaped the following pieces of this genre for a long time (the second type is the "joke-saturated nonsense hit", shaped by Theodor im football goal ) . These patterns would only be broken by independent forms of humor in the Neue Deutsche Welle .
The Bamberg literary scholar Hans-Peter Ecker interpreted the "refreshingly jazzy arranged" song as the "willingness" of the German hit to "poke fun at" itself. In 1961 one had probably not heard of criticism of Western cultural imperialism , of " orientalism ", deconstruction and political correctness in post-colonialism . Ramsey's “fictional alter ego” was allowed to “fall in love” with a pretty belly dancer without triggering public outrage. On the contrary, the title should Zuckerpuppe be classified on the German pop into the emerging since 1960 "Orient wave" - or as indicated by Ecker as a parody of it. Since the middle of 1959, the popular Italy phase had subsided and no more Italian hits had made it to the German charts. Instead, titles like Mustapha (by Bob Azzam / Leo Leandros ) and Laila found themselves in the hit parades in 1960 .
The cultural scientist Anke Steinborn places the title in a series of hits and films from the 1950s and 1960s that address the important aspects of “freedom” and “harmony” in the Federal Republic of Germany. Non-native language interpretations by Nana Mouskouri or Mireille Mathieu , the accent of the Apaches in Winnetou films and Bill Ramsey's American accent emphasized the dreamed-up "exoticism" of the distance.
Cover versions
Zuckerpuppe (from the belly dance troupe) was occasionally covered as a hit. The first cover versions appeared shortly after publication, including a Danish version by Tobi Rix in 1961 and a French version by Caterina Valente in 1962 . The cover versions of the song include:
- 1961: Tobi Rix - Supersnoepie (Danish)
- 1961: Max Greger and his orchestra - La Paloma / Corinna / Zuckerpuppe (Medley)
- 1961: Dick Robby & The Rivieras - Sugar Doll
- 1961: Bob Lucks - Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe)
- 1962: Caterina & Silvio - La poupée poudrée (French)
- 1963: Georgia Gibbs - Sugar Puff
- 1969: Petr Altman - Sněžný Král (Czech)
- 1986: James Last - Sugar Doll
- 2002: Rainhard Fendrich - Sugar Puppet
- 2005: Stefan Dietl - Bill Ramsey - Medley (Medley)
- 2005: The Music Students - Sugar Doll
- 2011: JP Love - Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe)
- 2013: Ulli Otte - Sugar Doll
In addition to cover versions, there are scores of the song for various sets of parts, such as for “women's choir and piano” or for wind orchestra .
In 2000, the actress Corinna Duhr parodied the then CDU General Secretary and later Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Nockherberger Singspiel in her presence with the song I am the sugar doll from the black money troupe .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Bill Ramsey - Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe). austriancharts.at, accessed on July 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Bill Ramsey - Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe) at Discogs .; accessed on July 7, 2021.
- ^ Merv Griffin with Sid Bass & His Orchestra and Chorus - Banned in Boston , cover versions on cover.info; accessed on July 7, 2021.
- ↑ "Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe)" by Bill Ramsey on YouTube (scene from the film On Sunday my sweetie wants to go sailing with me ).
- ^ Anna Sarah Vielhaber: The popular German film 1930-1970: a cross-cultural analysis to explain its success . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-0928-6 , pp. 142-143 .
- ↑ Sugar doll (from the belly dance troupe) Bill Ramsey's last concert on October 31, 2019 on YouTube in the Metropolis Kino in Hamburg .
- ↑ a b c Bill Ramsey - sugar doll (from the belly dance troupe) , lyrics on songtexte.com; accessed on July 7, 2021.
- ↑ a b Bill Ramsey - Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe). officialcharts.de, accessed on July 7, 2021 .
- ↑ a b c d Bill Ramsey - Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe). chartsurfer.de, accessed on July 7, 2021 .
- ↑ sugar doll , f . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 32 : Sable – cypress branch - (XVI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1954, Sp. 309 ( woerterbuchnetz.de - version 01/21).
- ↑ a b "They call themselves 'rabbit' or 'little bear'." Century . In: Angelika Linke, Juliane Schröter (Ed.): Language and Relationship . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-049691-8 , pp. 339-358 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110496918 .
- ^ A b Christian Pfarr: A festival in the cornfield. Small German hit story . Reclam, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-379-01604-7 , p. 137-140 .
- ↑ Hans-Peter Ecker: Song of praise to Bergische women: Bill Ramsey's "Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe)" (1961). In: German songs. Bamberg anthology. January 5, 2015, accessed July 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Manuel Gogos: "Real life is elsewhere". In: bpb.de. Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on July 7, 2021 .
- ↑ O Mustapha. In: Der Spiegel 33/1960. August 9, 1960, accessed July 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Anke Steinborn: Sing, cowboy sing. How the East rocks the Western . In: Carsten Heinze, Laura Niebling (Ed.): Popular Music Cultures in Film: Inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10896-0 , p. 219 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-10896-0_10 .
- ↑ Bill Ramsey - Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe) , cover versions on cover.info; accessed on July 7, 2021.
- ↑ The sugar doll from the belly dance group for female choir and piano. Retrieved July 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Heinz Gietz - Sugar Doll (from the belly dance troupe). Retrieved July 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Angie - a godsend for comedians. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 11, 2010, accessed July 7, 2021 .