Saragossa Band

Saragossa Band

The Saragossa Band in Concert (2002)
Background information
Origin Munich, Germany
Genres Pop music
Years active Mid-1970s-present
Website www.saragossaband.de
Members
  • Harry Karrer
  • Gudrun Overhoff-Poppinga
  • Gitty Fischer
  • Andy Bielan
  • Markus Escher
  • Evert van der Wal
Past members
  • Helmut Schiffner
  • Alfred Rudek
  • Georg Klanthe
  • Heinrich Wiesgickl
  • Alex Diame
  • Thomas Brandner
  • Pit Troja
  • Peter Brüstle
  • Angela Watkins
  • Gislene Silva
  • Wolfgang Gleixner
  • Jutta Niedhart

The Saragossa Band is a pop band from what was then West Germany or the Federal Republic of Germany. It made it to big time popularity in between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s.[1] From Munich in Southern Germany, it grew into one of the most successful party-bands in Germany.

History

The Saragossa Band

The group became known in 1977, when it brought out the song Big Bamboo, which is sung in the Caribbean Papiamentu dialect. Rasta Man and Zabadak followed, two songs with relatively little text, after all, made it into the Top Ten of the German charts. The following titles Ginger Red, Agadou, Aiko Aiko managed no top 10 finishes but Agadou is the title with the greatest long-term effect and is still by far the most played song of the group. To date, the title, is popular especially in beach bars and nightclubs. In recent years, there has been a spate of cover versions of this title (including Hot Banditoz, DD Company, La Boom, Black Lace or Proty Disco Kids). This trend has now calmed down, because all of these cover versions flopped and party DJs instead returned to the version that the Saragossa Band plays.

The Saragossa Band music blends elements of pop with calypso and samba. It attained the distinction of being the only German band to complete a highly successful South Pacific tour.

Personnel

Current members

Past members

Pit Troja, (1980 to 1982), drums

Discography

Albums

Year Title Chartposition[2][3] Comments
DE AT
1982 Za Za Zabadak 3

(13 Weeks)

 11

(6 Weeks)

 First published: 1981
1983 Das neue große Za Za Zabadak 14

(8 Weeks)

 20

(2 Weeks)

 First published: 1982
1987 Das super Za-Za-Zabadak 20

(7 Weeks)

 — Kompilation

First published: 1982

More albums

Compilations

Singles

Year Title Chartposition[2][3] Comments
DE AT
1977 Big Bamboo (Ay Ay Ay) 40

(7 Weeks)

 —
1979 Rasta Man 9

(21 Weeks)

 2

(16 Weeks)
1979 Zabadak 6

(30 Weeks)

 8

(12 Weeks)
1980 Ginger Red 28

(20 Weeks)

 —
1980 Pas pleurer (Please No More Crying) 43

(14 Weeks)

 19

(4 Weeks)
1981 Agadou 14

(22 Weeks)

 5

(14 Weeks)
1981 Aiko Aiko 37

(11 Weeks)

 15

(2 Weeks)
1982 Dance with the Saragossa Band 23

(6 Weeks)

 —
1982 Mañana 58

(6 Weeks)

 —
2004 Rastaman — 16

(9 Weeks)

 DJ The Wave feat. Saragossa Band
More Singles

References

  1. ↑ "Saragossa Band - Cool Night - New Album 2007". http://www.downduck.com. Retrieved 13 October 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  2. 1 2 Chartquellen: Singles Alben
  3. 1 2 Gold-/Platin-Datenbank DE
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