Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini is a pop song by Paul Vance (text) and Lee Pockriss (music), which became known by Brian Hyland in 1960. The Million Sellers became the Evergreen.
Genesis
Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss since 1957 worked successfully as an author team and were 349 and 517 at the ASCAP copyright registered titles a professional team of authors.
Background of the song is a true story. Lyricist Paul Vance had a two year old daughter who was playing with her yellow polka dot bikini children on the beach. She inspired her father to the hook of the song. Vance involved his writing partner Lee Pockriss order completion, then allowed to make a demo recording and offered the song to the music publisher George Pincus on. The unusual title caught the attention of Dave Kapp, the record boss of independent labels Kapp Records. He had just taken the daughter Leader Label the 16 -year-old high school student Brian Hyland under contract, who published here as his first single, Rosemary (recorded on February 12, 1960).
Vance was on the performance of the proposed music producer Richard Wolfe skeptical and therefore took Publisher Pincus at the recording session on 6 June 1960, with Orchestra John Dixon part. Vance criticized the production because it was not oriented close enough, in its opinion on the demo recording, which refused producer Wolfe. Since, however, still remained half an hour of recording time, Vance was able to prevail with a second take. Kapp label boss kept the first for text risky, but Vance was Kapp convince them that a humorous text can not be risky.
The linguistic construction of the song " Itsy Bitsy " belongs to the colloquial Reduplikationsreimen and means " tiny, tiny ", derived from bit ( " bit "). Also, " teeny weeny - " means " very small", derived from weeny ( "tiny" ). " Polka dot" means "spotted" and is since 1857 in the American parlance. The dot pattern came in 1926 in the USA in fashion, as Miss America was victorious in a polka dot swimsuit. On November 18, 1928 was Walt Disney's cartoon character Minnie Mouse a red polka-dot dress in the short film Steamboat Willie, since it is their trademark. Today's bikini was presented on 5 July 1946 by the French engineer Louis Réard and presented as " smallest bathing suit ". Since 1957 Brigitte Bardot presented him in the film And God Created Woman, was popular.
The text tells the story of a girl who does not want to leave the locker room, because it would then show for the first time his tight, yellow polka dot bikini. After she had nevertheless found its way into the water, she lacks the courage to come back out of the water, risking even blue lips. Unusual was the end of the stanza during an instrumental Breaks spoken by Trudy Packer line "(one ), two, three, four, tell the people what she wore " (one, two, three, four, tell ' people what they wore). This bridging it prepares the listener to the next verse.
Publication and success
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini / Do not Dilly Dally, Sally was initially released as a single on the Kapp sublabel Leader ( L # 805). To stimulate the sale, it was sold in May 1960 by the well-known parent label Kapp Records (# 342). On both labels, the ungrammatical form " Polkadot " is selected. In the print media, however, soon put the correct spelling of "Polka Dot " (Eng. dot pattern ) by. After entry into the U.S. pop singles chart in July 1960, the Novelty Song on August 8, 1960 for a week reached number one in the United Kingdom Rank 8 He sold within just two months, a million, a total of over 2 million copies and developed itself. the song sparked a sales boom for bikinis in the USA summer hit of 1960.
In the movie Where the Boys Are ( Premiere: December 28, 1960 ) the bikini culture was then taken up in the United States. In the film One, Two, Three by Billy Wilder ( German Premiere: December 18, 1961) the song is used to torture one played by Horst Buchholz, alleged U.S. spy by constant audition of the song by sleep deprivation and so to confess to force.
Cover versions
With his song, translated into at least 14 languages , Hyland bikini immortalized. Among the at least 86 cover versions are to mention Paul Rich (July 1960) or Ronnie Cord, under the title Biquini de Bolinha Amarelinha Tao Pequenininho a Brazilian version brought out (LP Ronnie Cord, Copacabana CLP 11,164; October 1960 ).
A German translation of a text by Günter Loose were assigned by Club Honolulu ( Caterina Valente and brother Silvio Francesco, recorded on 30 July 1960 in Brussels) under the title Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu - known beach bikini; He has sold over 250,000 copies. This translation also took advantage of Jan & Kjeld ( December 1960 ). Club Honolulu reached in the German charts also the first place. This " Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu - beach - bikini " inspired 1987 the band Die Toten Hosen to a punk version on their album Never Mind The Hosen - Here's Die Roten Rosen.
Dalida was with the French version Itsi bitsi, petit bikini from December 12, 1960 for four weeks topped the French charts, published simultaneously with Johnny Hallyday Cover ( September 1960 ). Within a medley of hit on Stars on 45 occurs (16 May 1981). Bombalurina brought their version for three weeks on the first rank in the British charts ( August 1990), and made it again to the million seller.