[TETENAL]

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...reFront=143443

The song about "Schnappi" the little crocodile reached no. 2 in the German iTMS! Check it out!

[Spheric Harlot]

you've gotta be ****ing kidding me.

that's like the legendary Ententanz, except worse, because it's *cute*.

[voyageur]

Aw, it's not available in the US Store.
I admit it; I fell for the cuteness.

[Goldfinger]

[TETENAL]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
you've gotta be ****ing kidding me.

I'm not kidding you. The song is in the single charts afaik, and it's really no. 2 in iTMS. If you don't believe me, look at the iTMS front page. Maybe it will make no. 1 soon. What's wrong with cute?

If it's not in the US iTMS you can at least hear the preview by switching to the German iTMS before clicking the link.

[MilkmanDan]

Go Germany. No wonder you're so scary.

[badidea]

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Go Germany. No wonder you're so scary.

We are scary??
Well ok, now we are!!

[TheBadgerHunter]

Lol, thats great stuff. I could listen to that all day..

But why isn't there a gangsta schnappi mix?

[MilkmanDan]

Originally posted by badidea:
We are scary??
Well ok, now we are!!

I know, because I am 90% German.

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
I know, because I am 90% German.

10% french fries inside of you?

anyway, what's wrong with cute @ spheric. There are still people in Germany who have kids! Really! (They still do it)


- Thilo

[paully dub]

Reminds me of that French hit Dur dur d'être bébé. Except that was cooler, since the video had naked chicks in it.

[JHromadka]

Soon to be found at clubs across America.

[Goldfinger]

Originally posted by paully dub:
Reminds me of that French hit Dur dur d'être bébé. Except that was cooler, since the video had naked chicks in it.

I actually bought that CD. He was called Jordi or something like that.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by voyageur:
Aw, it's not available in the US Store.
I admit it; I fell for the cuteness.

I got the same notice, wanted me to change stores.

[macintologist]

ANybody wanna host it on their idisk or some other public http server for a few days?

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by Thilo Ettelt:
anyway, what's wrong with cute @ spheric. There are still people in Germany who have kids! Really! (They still do it)

Those aren't the who are going to jam-pack the rural dicos, get stone drunk, and then go through "cute" dance moves en masse.

It ain't the kids who are buying - or listening to - six different equally atrocious "dance" versions of a "cute" song.

I take it you're not old enough to remember the horror that was the "Ententanz"?

-s*

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by wdlove:
I got the same notice, wanted me to change stores.

You can, you know.

There's a pop-up menu at the bottom of the front page that lets you switch.

It's okay; nothing breaks, and you're not betraying America.

-s*

[voyageur]

So there's a dance that goes along with the Schnappi song?

[TETENAL]

Originally posted by voyageur:
So there's a dance that goes along with the Schnappi song?

I don't think so, but see

http://www.schnappi.tv/hoerenundsehen.php

the video in the bottom right under "Sehen".

[voyageur]

Thanks. I can't help it, I love Schnappi.

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
I take it you're not old enough to remember the horror that was the "Ententanz"?

-s*

You are right about that. I haven't heard of that before.


- Thilo

[paully dub]

I just vomited all over my keyboard. There's no discernable dance that I could find, just a cartoon of the little croc -at one point he did the Walk Like an Egyptian dance....

If adults are listening to that in rural discos in Germany..wel that's just one more reason not to go to rual discos in Germany.

Or indeed rural discos anywhere....***shudder***

[TETENAL]

Schnappi is no. 1!

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...opSongs?id=100

Great! Schnappi is now number 1 in the iTunes Music Store!

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by Thilo Ettelt:
You are right about that. I haven't heard of that before.


- Thilo

I VERY much doubt it.



Click here for the only audio version I could find (click on the little speaker next to "Electronica's Dance Little Bird" for a crap ringtone version of the melody).

When the clarinet squeals the opening notes to signal the next Chicken Dance, children will run to the dance floor delighted, and adults will accompany them smiling. But a few Teutonic Grinches will grumble that it is not a proper Oktoberfest tune. After many hours of painstaking research, I can explain why it really is an Oktoberfest tune, how it came to be so, and why it should remain one.


The Chicken Dance originally came from Switzerland, not Germany! Oktoberfest in America is a celebration of the heritage and culture of German speaking peoples. Songs and dances from Austria, Switzerland and even tiny Liechtenstein are widespread and entirely appropriate. Moreover, the dance first became wildly popular in Germany, and was played and danced at the Munich Oktoberfest. It was there that American musicians learned the tune and brought it home. ___________________________


The Swiss accordionist Werner Thomas composed the Chicken Dance. Although he began playing it sometime in the 1950's in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos, it was not published until 1973, when a visiting Belgian music publisher discovered it. As an instrumental piece, it did not have lyrics and there was never a settled name for it. The first name was “Tchip Tchip”, and the first published name was “Dance Little Bird”. It languished for several years.


Suddenly it took Europe by storm. An obscure quartet called De Electronica’s_ recorded the single “De Vogeljes Dans” (“The Little Bird’s Dance” in Dutch)_ in 1980 and it soared onto the Dutch pop charts. The following year under the name “Dance Little Bird” the Electronica’s version of the Chicken Dance became the hit tune on German radio. From July through October 1981 the Chicken Dance was in the top ten on German pop charts; for 8 weeks it was the number one hit! “Dance Little Bird” swept Germany that year, before and during Oktoberfest.


Every year many Americans make a pilgrimage to Munich to enjoy the original Oktoberfest. In 1981, visiting Americans, including a number of polka accordionists and other musicians, witnessed tents full of Germans doing the Chicken Dance on the tables at Oktoberfest. It would be hard to verify who was the first to bring the Chicken Dance to America. One of the musicians was Marv Herzog of the Bavaria band from Michigan and another was Hank Holler from Ohio. Al Tuszkoski, a bandleader from Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania who performs as Jolly Joe and the Bavarians not only heard the tune but claims to have been the first to record it in the States.


Meanwhile, the Heilbronn Band from Germany introduced the dance at the Tulsa, Oklahoma Oktoberfest, where, legend has it, it acquired the name “Chicken Dance”. The Dutch and German records had covers featuring cartoon ducklings, and in Germany the name became “Der Ententanz”, or “Duck Dance”. In other lands where the Queen’s English is spoken, such as Britain, Australia and India, the tune became known as “The Birdie Dance”, because of a chart-hitting version by “The Tweets”, an English group that performed in bird costumes and sold 8 million copies of its recording. At Oktoberfest in Tulsa, the band wanted a dancer in full costume. No duck costume could be found, but a chicken outfit was available at a local TV station. Voila! “The Chicken Dance” became its title in America.


In Europe, the Chicken Dance was considered a disco or electronica pop tune. Artists in many countries composed lyrics in their local language, such as songstress Romina Power in her record “Il Ballo Di Qua Qua”, number one on the Italian hit parade in 1981. Maria Jesus and his Accordion recorded “Los Pajaritos” for the Spanish speaking world. Even in the Soviet Union, the tune was adapted in painful excess.


___________ The Chicken Dance is featured in three principal locales: weddings, sports events, such as college and minor league games, and above all at Oktoberfests. A survey of both DJ’s and small-scale live bands shows that it is one of the most popular selections at weddings in both America and Britain. And, perhaps because it requires light-hearted audience participation, it seems to fit right in at such venues as Zephyrs’ stadium and LSU football games._


___________ A Chicken Dance attracts a good portion of an Oktoberfest crowd to the dance floor. This often consists of one or two rings of dancers, sometimes with one ring inside another. The Guinness World Record’s largest Chicken Dance for a time was at the Cincinnati Oktoberfest in 1994 when no less than 48,000 people participated in a vast dance at Fountain Square. In 1996, a county fair in Canfield Ohio smashed that record with 72,000 fairgoers participating. The Chicken Dance is usually a fairly short dance. Although there is no official record, the Polishtown USA festival in Santa Monica California reached 25 minutes in 1997. [Part 2 follows in a future issue of Monatsblatt]

[villalobos]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
I VERY much doubt it.



Click here for the only audio version I could find (click on the little speaker next to "Electronica's Dance Little Bird" for a crap ringtone version of the melody).

here is the french version for you (always thought it was french). 'La danse des canards'.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...temId=17361689

[villalobos]

Originally posted by TETENAL:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...reFront=143443

The song about "Schnappi" the little crocodile reached no. 2 in the German iTMS! Check it out!

wow 7.92 euros for that album is ..... a little much I would say.

[macintologist]

I really like this Schnappi song. I guess the reason is that it has some kind of nostalgic power. Honestly, if this was in the US store I would buy it.

Does anyone have an mp3 or a ripped m4a of this song that they would be willing to host (or email me)?

[historylme]

AAARRRRRHHHHHHHHGGGGGGG!!!!!

[Spheric Harlot]

For Thilo:

A truly atrocious version of the "Ententanz": "Gib mir bitte einen Kuss (Ententanz)" by the Lollipops.

:shudder:

I'm *sure* you've heard the melody before - count yourself lucky, though, if you've missed the dance.

[hagheid]

Congratulations on winning this years Christmas asshole award. We'll be looking for a strong showing next year to defend your title.

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by hagheid:
Another cute German sing-a-long number
snip

Is this appropriate in this forum? This kind of material should be forbidden. It probably is forbidden in Germany.


@spheric: sounds horrible. i guess i'm indeed glad that i missed that

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by hagheid:
Another cute German sing-a-long number
http://www.whitepowerforum.com/mp3z/zworn.mp3

wow.

Was that supposed to be funny?

[Mastrap]

Originally posted by hagheid:
Another cute German sing-a-long number

Well, while we're at it, why don't we link to the British National Party? ****wit.

[Mastrap]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
For Thilo:

A truly atrocious version of the "Ententanz": "Gib mir bitte einen Kuss (Ententanz)" by the Lollipops.

You know what's even scarier? That song is, for whatever reason, available in the UK iTunes store. Why, I have no idea. (Yes, I still have to use the UK iTunes store. Need to get myself a Canadian credit card before there's cheap music for yours truly.)

Here's a cute song I know Spheric doesn't hate: I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

FREE Bonus: Here's the b-side

[Komisar]

umm now i can't get back to the us music store how do i fix it so its not german any more!

[Mastrap]

Scroll down in your iTunes window, choose your desired store. It's a drop down menu at the bottom.

[hagheid]

Originally posted by Mastrap:
Well, while we're at it, why don't we link to the British National Party? ****wit.

Who?

[hagheid]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
wow.

Was that supposed to be funny?

Not as funny as this:

“You know, it's ironic that just at the point the lawyers and the businessmen had calculated how to control music, the internet comes along and ****s everything up.” Björk gives the finger again, this time waving it into the air. “God bless the internet.”

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by hagheid:
Not as funny as this:

“You know, it's ironic that just at the point the lawyers and the businessmen had calculated how to control music, the internet comes along and ****s everything up.” Björk gives the finger again, this time waving it into the air. “God bless the internet.”

I take it you've read the article?

Is there some point you're trying to make?

Does it necessarily involve linking to white supremacist music?

Inquiring minds wish to know.

[hagheid]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
I take it you've read the article?

Is there some point you're trying to make?

Does it necessarily involve linking to white supremacist music?

Inquiring minds wish to know.

"Our Björk, you see, is not in it for the money."

Now THIS is truly funny

[Spheric Harlot]

that didn't answer my questions

[starman]

Is that the song that goes "Schnee Shnaw Schappi" or something like that?