Hawaii Tattoo

Hawaii Tattoo is an instrumental piece by the Belgian group " Waikiki " from the year 1961.

The piece is thanks to the initiative of the record producer Horst Fuchs, the contacts with a Belgian group of studio musicians entertained that " The Waikiki " operated under the name and for which he sought musical numbers with Hawaiian flair: "I needed songs that to me then wrote among other things, Hans Blum and Martin Böttcher. Hooper came first is not over with his title. But when I nudged him concretely, Hawaii tattoo was finished within half an hour. " Cooper wrote the song under the pseudonym" Michael Thomas ".

In 1961 the first four titles of " Waikiki " were produced - including Hawaii Tattoo, which became an international success: "In Germany stood at the end the bottom line is about 600,000 units. Internationally, we came to a total of 2.5 million, "said Horst Fuchs. In December 1961, Hawaii Tattoo in the top 50 of the German music charts, where it stayed 37 weeks, of which climbed 21 weeks in the top 10, and at # 4. Also in the American Billboard Charts managed Hawaii Tattoo, but not until about three years later.

The recording has become known in the Hawaiian tattoo is believed to have been arranged by Willy Albimoor, the boss, arranger and pianist of " Waikiki "; Martin Böttcher himself under the pseudonym Mike Thomas and his Wall Street babies made ​​a ( very little to Hawaii sounding ) recording under the title Hawaii Tattoo Dixie. In the film, Max, the pickpocket from 1962, for the Böttcher wrote the music, is heard as background music from a jukebox Hawaii Tattoo in the version of the " Waikiki ".