Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)

Wonderful Dream ( Holidays Are Coming ) is an English song of who died in 2001 in a plane crash singer Melanie Thornton. It comes from the album Ready to Fly and has since been published annually for Christmas ( except 2007).

History

The song Wonderful Dream was created in 2001 based on the original Coca -Cola Jingle Holidays are Coming, which was broadcast in a commercial with the Coca -Cola Christmas trucks beginning in 1996. After 2001, when Melanie Thornton had an accident in the Crossair Flight 3597, the song climbed to No. 3 in the German charts. The song was known primarily for his media presence through the Coca -Cola Christmas advertising campaigns on television; it was used from 2001 to 2005 for advertising - 2006 was replaced by Melanie Thornton Sarah Connor ( "The Best Side of Life "). Compared to the first publication in 2001 in addition are looking at the re-release in 2006 a remix and a music video on the CD. Another remix of the song is on the album Memories - Her Most Beautiful Ballads to find from the year 2003. The replacement of Sarah Connor was still only be temporary, " Wonderful Dream " has been since 2007, due to multiple protests of consumers, again played.

Despite the consumer protests in the past, Coca -Cola decided that Christmas 2010 campaign with the song " Shake Up Christmas " the California band Train accompany. 2013, the spot of recent years was accompanied again in a slightly modified version of " Wonderful Dream ".

History and background information

In the beginning was the famous Coca -Cola slogan "Always the real thing" - the songwriter Rich Airif, Scott Temper, Mitchell Lennox, Julien Nairolf, Ben Naftali, Terri Coffey, Jon Nettlefbey and Melanie Thornton himself wrote the song "around the slogan " around. The background vocals in the song are from Colin Rich, Laila Manke, Michael Keller, Oscar Sheercan and Melanie Thornton. The production was the single by Julien Nairolf and Mitchell Lennox.

A karaoke version of Wonderful Dream ( Holidays Are Coming ) is on the CD backing tracks - to find 30 × 13 Bestsellers Vol.

Music Video

By Melanie Thornton's sudden death is no video clip was produced for the single more. The music video for Wonderful Dream ( Holidays Are Coming ), which was directed by Oliver Sommer, is a montage of Melanie's previous videos. Thus, among other things, scenes from the videos to see how you love me Love and Heart Beat - including previously unreleased outtakes. Furthermore, it is shown every now and then an excerpt from the last concert of the singer of 24 November 2001 in Leipzig. As a stopgap finally various scenes from the choir, the orchestra and children are recorded. There are two different versions of the music video: In the first version is missing at the end of words " In loving memory of Melanie Thornton "; in its place the previous station is fully shown ( a swing to the ceiling ). In the second version of this pivot is eliminated in favor of the writing. Whether it was originally planned its own music video, or already shot, is not known.

Cover versions

The end of 2004 appeared a cover version of the Christmas song by singer Tamee Harrison. The name of the song is A Beautiful Time. It reached number 2 in Austria and number 39 in Switzerland. In addition, the song for many of Coca-Cola advertising campaigns in Europe was used. In 2006, the Polish singer Ania Szarmach the song also titled Radość Dzielenia; it was used for the Coca Cola Christmas campaign in Poland.

Publication data

  • 2001: November 26, 2001
  • 2002:?
  • 2003: November 24, 2003
  • 2004: November 22, 2004 /15 campaign. November 2004 as Pocket CD with up to that new remix
  • 2005:?
  • 2006: November 24, 2006
  • , 2007: November 16, 2007
  • 2008:?
  • 2009: December 1, 2009
  • 2010:?
  • 2011:?
  • 2012: November 23, 2012
  • 2013:?

Charts

Since the publication on 26 November 2001 Wonderful Dream rises in Germany and Austria each year at Christmas time again in the single charts. There is always placed a few weeks and achieved partial ranks in the top 20 in Switzerland are not as great successes have been achieved. 2004, 2005 and 2006, it did not went into the charts, in the other years of the stay was mostly limited to a few weeks. Since 2003 it was out, did not get on court 50.

Chart positions since 2001

Overall

Through the annual re-entry into the charts a considerable number of weeks is placed met in Germany and Austria now. In Germany Wonderful Dream has become the tenth most weeks chart at all, in Austria it is in the all-time best list in 15th place

Periods

Chart Sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland

Sarah Connor (singer) Train (Band) Media-Control-Charts
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