WOW! A wonderful recap of the German Singles Charts of 1982! Fantastic songs of my late childhood! Some already foreshadowed the onset of the Italo Disco trend, which fully manifested itself a year later in 1983. I look forward to more German Singles Charts 1983 and 84. Thank you for posting on UA-cam !!!
Great job Francis, it's very interesting to see which songs were on the German charts 40 years ago. From today's point of view it's quite astonishing that 2 of the most iconic songs of the 80s, Africa & Eye of the Tiger, failed to reach the German top 10!
thing is: up until mtv and private radios changed it, german (and.a lot of european) charts were very much a mirror of what national tv and radio gave you - and that was what your parents could stomach. anything even remotely rock oriented had a tough standing, hence a track like eye of the tiger was actually too heavy for mainstream germany at the time. this explains also why a lot of rock oriented us chart acts from that period (eddie money, pat benatar, the cars) couldn't land a hit in the german charts of 81 or 82. quite astonishing given today's landscape.
It does for me,too. We must have heard a few German hits when we (me,my mother and my sister) saw in 1982 staying as guests of my aunt,uncle and two cousins in a village in Germany over Christmas and New Year in the school/college holidays. I was 17. They had a lovely big house with a large,long living room,the size of two decently proportioned rooms stuck together,that had a large balcony looking straight onto the river Rhein. It was accessed via a pair of sliding glass doors,and a panel of floor-to-ceiling glass on either side. We could watch the boats and small ships,leisure ones and cargo ones,passing up and down the river from there,and in the summer weather we could relax on there with music playing. They had two big dogs,a shaggy black Newfoundland called Amour and an Irish Wolfhound called Tanya who occasionally liked to jump straight onto your lap when you were sitting in one of the armchairs - oof! The dogs even had their own small room,with dog baskets and soft,comfortable "beds" to sit/lie on,and their own area in the garden,too. They also had two cats with viciously sharp claws called Ginny and Tango and a goldish,whose name was Bart(h?)ol (not Wanda),who lived in what might have been an old baby/child's bath in the cellar (it always had some light,whether natural or artificial,and heating if needed) for some reason. There was a sauna and shower down there,as well as 60-feet deep well down there as well which they discovered bricked up in a hitherto hidden extra room. The cats had their own access from outside into the cellar,from which they could pad their way up a couple of feline-sized walkways to a cat flap into the house. There was a thick snowfall from early December (like in the UK) that winter,and thick snow on the ground for most of our stay over. Around the end of our stay before returning to Engalnd,much of the snow thawed and the cellar was entirely flooded right to the top,so that the water was lapping at the top of the stairs behind the door into the house! Barthol was evacuated into the house. That area around the Rhein has always been notorious for floods,and there are Hochwassermarken (high water marks) on many of the buildings around there,as there are in Cologne. When we went into Bonn,or especially Colgne,on the train I used to spend some time at the record shops or record department in department stores when I had the chance,so I got to see the German chart and what was in it and bought a few singles,tapes and albums. I was more into my rock and New Wave but my cousins loved going to discos and their disco music. We wore our non-baggy blue jeans most of the time. Most of us,including two of my aunts,had a good shake of our asses on the disco floor to everything from disco hits to things like Fade to Grey by Visage. There was a rough grass field,with an electricity pylon and a couple of horses in it,between us and the immediate neighbours,a couple who had a teenage son or two,as well as a big black Great Dane-like Deutsche Dogge called Delo. Amour was so jealous of Delo and protective of Tanya that they had to keep him out in the hall when the neighbours were over one evening because he would become too difficult to handle,and found that he'd chewed one of his plastic food/water bowls into several pieces in frustration,poor chap. The neighbours invited us all over for a big Christmas dinner,with a friend or two of the sons also there. The father of the family had an audio tape system connected to their stereo,with a miscellany of many dozen,more like one or two hundred plus it seemed,songs recorded on it - rock,New Wave,disco - pretty much all popular mid-/late 70s or early 80s music,and the selection was a pretty good one. This wasn't your ordinary cassette system but much wider,high quality tape - I cannot remember if it was a reel-to-reel like my Dad had but it was clearly a far bigger,more expensive state-of-the-art system. He put that on as the soundtrack to our festive dinner and the disco that followed. The toilet had a traffic light wired to it,almost like an actual one you'd see on the road,that would turn red if the loo was occupied and green if it was vacant. Foolhardily,I mixed a highly inadvisable amount of different drinks at that Christmas dinner. That caught up with me later,after the partying was over,and boy did I feel rough the next day.
Merci, Francis for this New 1982 video. 1982 was a year of " Die neue deutsche welle (New German wave) in the German charts. My favourites on this video is :" Flash in the Night "," Viva Torero "," Der Komissar ", Ein bissen Frieden," Oh Julie "," Head over Heels "," View from a Bridge "," Da da da", "Ebony & Ivory", " Storie Di tutti ı giorni", "Just an Illusion", "Abracadabra", "Eye of the Tiger", "Words", "Ahe t'amoure", The Day before you came "and" Do you really want to hurt me? ". ✌️✌️❤️
Along with all the British and US records,I used to hear Der Komissar on the radio a lot then,though sometimes it was the cover version by After the Fire. Eurovision winner Ein Bisschen Frieden was a number 1 over here in the UK,albeit with translated lyrics and Da Da Da got to number 2 a little later the same summer. Oh Julie,Ebony and Ivory,Eye of the Tiger and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? (in that order) were all number 1s here,while Just an Illusion and Abracadabra reached number 2 - as did Words,but not until April 1983!
Great trip down the memory lane. Amazing work. I was 13 back in 1982. Being very interested in hit charts and growing up in Denmark was a bad mix at that time. Lucky for me I lived in a part of Denmark where we had access to German television and radio. “Der Internationalen Hitparade” on NDR2 every Saturday night hosted by Wolf-Dieter Stubel was a life-saver for me. So funny to watch the big transition from German schlagers into Die Neue Deutsche Welle in this period and your video tells this story pretty well. On telly you could watch Nana Mouskouri, Depeche Mode and Huberth Kah in the same show within 12 minutes. Loved most of it. Thanks for the great work, Francis.
Interesting how half of these are iconic classics and the other half are songs that absolutely no one remembers. Probably happens with almost every year in music.
Thank you with another brilliant video. It's interesting notice this and previous years (haven't seen all) you get about two to three covers of a song. I'm not surprised 'Ein bißschen frieden' spent a while at the top as it's a lovely song and their first ever Eurovision win. Glad they appreciated the beauty of Culture Club and you can see the influence of NDW in the German Charts.
Great list Francis so many beauties rareness supreme talents u name it diverse go Germany and from the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s
Ja man kennt es halt weil man damit aufgewachsen ist und es sehr traurig und schade das so viele davon gestorben sind. Aber ihre Lieder sind und werden für immer bleiben. Und alle leben in den Herzen weiter und werden niemals vergessen. ❤🙏🌹😢
The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" only went to #63?! And Men at Work "Who can it be now" #71? Conversely, I wouldn't have expected Rachel Sweet to make the charts, or Fehlfarben for that matter. Kim Wilde's angsty "View from a bridge" went rather surprisingly high, and good to know that Alice's "Messaggio" and Helen Schneider's "Hot Summer Nites" got some love. The latter could have been a hit internationally, I reckon. (Ironically, neither singer was particularly happy making rock music.) I hadn't heard the Claudia Mori track before, that's a nice one. Overall, '82 seems like a fairly mixed bag compared to some of the next few years.
This is just great, thank you so much Francis! I forgot that Shakin Stevens was so popular in Germany! And I thought that Trio's "Da Da Da" was a number one hit! Instead, it was "Ein bisschen Frieden". Not exactly NDW ... 😂😂😂.
Hi Francis, what a wonderful discovery, sometimes I looked in disbelief, more often with delight ..... Well, maybe close is the day when the number of German alternative songs will equalize the number of "schlager - melodies" - maybe in 1983? (btw - isn't it strange that Nina Hagen, DAF and X-Mal Deutschland were more appreciated elsewhere than in their homeland?) I was very surprised by 7:46, because it's a single from the 70's, and here it was probably a re-issue after the success of "Don't You Want Me". Can't wait for 1983, thanks a lot!
DAF were gaining a lot of acclaim and interest in the UK,and some airplay on night-time radio,by 1982. X-Mal Deutschland were being played by John Peel on his show by about then.
Thank you! Some really good music - and a few really strange… But did I miss Falco‘s version of „Der Kommissar“? He was very successful in 1982 with this song…
Weird how there's stuff with one week at a low chart position I can still sing along, and stuff I will swear I haven't ever heard in my life with multiple weeks in the upper third. But I guess that shows why there are separate single, album, and radio charts...
Thanks for this great flashbacks to my childhood. I've found some great tracks that I just forgotten all these years... Where do you get your sources for the playlists?
2 curiosities: You used the Dutch version of Nicole's "Ein bisschen Frieden", not the German one. Similarly, you used the English version of "Das Model" by Kraftwerk. To be fair, the single actually both had the German and the English version. But on the radio in Germany, they played the German version.
Wolfgang Petry ohne Freunschafts-Bändchen gab's wirklich? Ich hielt das immer für einen Mythos. Ich war 14 und hörte eher New Wave, Gothic & frühe EBM / Electro Sachen aber kenne doch einige Songs also nicht viel verpasst vom Mainstream 😏
WOW! A wonderful recap of the German Singles Charts of 1982! Fantastic songs of my late childhood! Some already foreshadowed the onset of the Italo Disco trend, which fully manifested itself a year later in 1983. I look forward to more German Singles Charts 1983 and 84. Thank you for posting on UA-cam !!!
Thanks, 1982 is one of my favourite years for music.
Great job Francis, it's very interesting to see which songs were on the German charts 40 years ago. From today's point of view it's quite astonishing that 2 of the most iconic songs of the 80s, Africa & Eye of the Tiger, failed to reach the German top 10!
Sicherlich. Vielen Dank,Francis,sehr interessant! 👍
Least they were still hit s and not flops!
thing is: up until mtv and private radios changed it, german (and.a lot of european) charts were very much a mirror of what national tv and radio gave you - and that was what your parents could stomach. anything even remotely rock oriented had a tough standing, hence a track like eye of the tiger was actually too heavy for mainstream germany at the time. this explains also why a lot of rock oriented us chart acts from that period (eddie money, pat benatar, the cars) couldn't land a hit in the german charts of 81 or 82. quite astonishing given today's landscape.
@@defendersofthefaith1984 Interesting, before MTV washed european brains, but germany had so many great pop artist in the 80's.
Wie immer: tolle Musik und traumhafte Erinnerungen. Ich denke schon wieder an meine Sabine - meine erste große Liebe! 😊😊😊
Great video, as usual! Brings back many memories. Please keep going.
It does for me,too. We must have heard a few German hits when we (me,my mother and my sister) saw in 1982 staying as guests of my aunt,uncle and two cousins in a village in Germany over Christmas and New Year in the school/college holidays. I was 17. They had a lovely big house with a large,long living room,the size of two decently proportioned rooms stuck together,that had a large balcony looking straight onto the river Rhein. It was accessed via a pair of sliding glass doors,and a panel of floor-to-ceiling glass on either side. We could watch the boats and small ships,leisure ones and cargo ones,passing up and down the river from there,and in the summer weather we could relax on there with music playing.
They had two big dogs,a shaggy black Newfoundland called Amour and an Irish Wolfhound called Tanya who occasionally liked to jump straight onto your lap when you were sitting in one of the armchairs - oof! The dogs even had their own small room,with dog baskets and soft,comfortable "beds" to sit/lie on,and their own area in the garden,too. They also had two cats with viciously sharp claws called Ginny and Tango and a goldish,whose name was Bart(h?)ol (not Wanda),who lived in what might have been an old baby/child's bath in the cellar (it always had some light,whether natural or artificial,and heating if needed) for some reason. There was a sauna and shower down there,as well as 60-feet deep well down there as well which they discovered bricked up in a hitherto hidden extra room. The cats had their own access from outside into the cellar,from which they could pad their way up a couple of feline-sized walkways to a cat flap into the house. There was a thick snowfall from early December (like in the UK) that winter,and thick snow on the ground for most of our stay over. Around the end of our stay before returning to Engalnd,much of the snow thawed and the cellar was entirely flooded right to the top,so that the water was lapping at the top of the stairs behind the door into the house! Barthol was evacuated into the house. That area around the Rhein has always been notorious for floods,and there are Hochwassermarken (high water marks) on many of the buildings around there,as there are in Cologne.
When we went into Bonn,or especially Colgne,on the train I used to spend some time at the record shops or record department in department stores when I had the chance,so I got to see the German chart and what was in it and bought a few singles,tapes and albums. I was more into my rock and New Wave but my cousins loved going to discos and their disco music. We wore our non-baggy blue jeans most of the time. Most of us,including two of my aunts,had a good shake of our asses on the disco floor to everything from disco hits to things like Fade to Grey by Visage. There was a rough grass field,with an electricity pylon and a couple of horses in it,between us and the immediate neighbours,a couple who had a teenage son or two,as well as a big black Great Dane-like Deutsche Dogge called Delo. Amour was so jealous of Delo and protective of Tanya that they had to keep him out in the hall when the neighbours were over one evening because he would become too difficult to handle,and found that he'd chewed one of his plastic food/water bowls into several pieces in frustration,poor chap.
The neighbours invited us all over for a big Christmas dinner,with a friend or two of the sons also there. The father of the family had an audio tape system connected to their stereo,with a miscellany of many dozen,more like one or two hundred plus it seemed,songs recorded on it - rock,New Wave,disco - pretty much all popular mid-/late 70s or early 80s music,and the selection was a pretty good one. This wasn't your ordinary cassette system but much wider,high quality tape - I cannot remember if it was a reel-to-reel like my Dad had but it was clearly a far bigger,more expensive state-of-the-art system. He put that on as the soundtrack to our festive dinner and the disco that followed. The toilet had a traffic light wired to it,almost like an actual one you'd see on the road,that would turn red if the loo was occupied and green if it was vacant. Foolhardily,I mixed a highly inadvisable amount of different drinks at that Christmas dinner. That caught up with me later,after the partying was over,and boy did I feel rough the next day.
Merci, Francis for this New 1982 video. 1982 was a year of " Die neue deutsche welle (New German wave) in the German charts. My favourites on this video is :" Flash in the Night "," Viva Torero "," Der Komissar ", Ein bissen Frieden," Oh Julie "," Head over Heels "," View from a Bridge "," Da da da", "Ebony & Ivory", " Storie Di tutti ı giorni", "Just an Illusion", "Abracadabra", "Eye of the Tiger", "Words", "Ahe t'amoure", The Day before you came "and" Do you really want to hurt me? ". ✌️✌️❤️
Along with all the British and US records,I used to hear Der Komissar on the radio a lot then,though sometimes it was the cover version by After the Fire. Eurovision winner Ein Bisschen Frieden was a number 1 over here in the UK,albeit with translated lyrics and Da Da Da got to number 2 a little later the same summer. Oh Julie,Ebony and Ivory,Eye of the Tiger and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? (in that order) were all number 1s here,while Just an Illusion and Abracadabra reached number 2 - as did Words,but not until April 1983!
Tears in my Eyes....Thank You / Danke.
Great trip down the memory lane. Amazing work.
I was 13 back in 1982. Being very interested in hit charts and growing up in Denmark was a bad mix at that time. Lucky for me I lived in a part of Denmark where we had access to German television and radio. “Der Internationalen Hitparade” on NDR2 every Saturday night hosted by Wolf-Dieter Stubel was a life-saver for me.
So funny to watch the big transition from German schlagers into Die Neue Deutsche Welle in this period and your video tells this story pretty well. On telly you could watch Nana Mouskouri, Depeche Mode and Huberth Kah in the same show within 12 minutes. Loved most of it.
Thanks for the great work, Francis.
Interesting how half of these are iconic classics and the other half are songs that absolutely no one remembers. Probably happens with almost every year in music.
Thank you with another brilliant video. It's interesting notice this and previous years (haven't seen all) you get about two to three covers of a song. I'm not surprised 'Ein bißschen frieden' spent a while at the top as it's a lovely song and their first ever Eurovision win. Glad they appreciated the beauty of Culture Club and you can see the influence of NDW in the German Charts.
Great list Francis so many beauties rareness supreme talents u name it diverse go Germany and from the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s
Thanks for making Queen on this list, Las Palabras De Amor,vBack Chat & Body Language.
Ja man kennt es halt weil man damit aufgewachsen ist und es sehr traurig und schade das so viele davon gestorben sind.
Aber ihre Lieder sind und werden für immer bleiben.
Und alle leben in den Herzen weiter und werden niemals vergessen.
❤🙏🌹😢
1982: Vielfalt - 2022: Einheitsbrei.
Vielfalt ja, nur die neue Deutsche Welle ist nicht am Platz und macht den ganzen Chart kaputt und billig. Schön, dass bereits 1983 ausgestorben war.
Abwechslung ist das bessere Wort. 😄
@@yogiaol Ich finde das Gejammere von der Hitparade aber schlimmer.
Wow a great eara of music and research must of taken ages
Thanks for sharing
This is excellent again, Francis!!! More like this - fantastic work!!
Thank you for that great job! Please more of that!
The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" only went to #63?! And Men at Work "Who can it be now" #71? Conversely, I wouldn't have expected Rachel Sweet to make the charts, or Fehlfarben for that matter. Kim Wilde's angsty "View from a bridge" went rather surprisingly high, and good to know that Alice's "Messaggio" and Helen Schneider's "Hot Summer Nites" got some love. The latter could have been a hit internationally, I reckon. (Ironically, neither singer was particularly happy making rock music.) I hadn't heard the Claudia Mori track before, that's a nice one.
Overall, '82 seems like a fairly mixed bag compared to some of the next few years.
This is just great, thank you so much Francis! I forgot that Shakin Stevens was so popular in Germany! And I thought that Trio's "Da Da Da" was a number one hit! Instead, it was "Ein bisschen Frieden". Not exactly NDW ... 😂😂😂.
Thanks For Sharing!
Oh, wow! Francis you are the best!!!
Hi Francis, what a wonderful discovery, sometimes I looked in disbelief, more often with delight ..... Well, maybe close is the day when the number of German alternative songs will equalize the number of "schlager - melodies" - maybe in 1983? (btw - isn't it strange that Nina Hagen, DAF and X-Mal Deutschland were more appreciated elsewhere than in their homeland?) I was very surprised by 7:46, because it's a single from the 70's, and here it was probably a re-issue after the success of "Don't You Want Me". Can't wait for 1983, thanks a lot!
DAF were gaining a lot of acclaim and interest in the UK,and some airplay on night-time radio,by 1982. X-Mal Deutschland were being played by John Peel on his show by about then.
Very Great, congratulation
Thank you for the Memories! :)
Some good, some great, some bad and then there are schlager. I’ve been trying to identify ‘Fred vom Jupiter’ for almost 40 years. Vielen danke!!
Thank you.On 80 years.
0:30: And here comes the NDW. 😃
4:51: And here it really starts!
Fine selection!
Großartige Alice und der beste 80er SOng, Maid of Orleans.
Thanks for that Great work!
OMG..... 40 Jahre!.... 1982 war ich 13.
Thank you! Some really good music - and a few really strange… But did I miss Falco‘s version of „Der Kommissar“? He was very successful in 1982 with this song…
You're welcome. Falco is on 3:15
28:38 ❤❤❤
Weird how there's stuff with one week at a low chart position I can still sing along, and stuff I will swear I haven't ever heard in my life with multiple weeks in the upper third. But I guess that shows why there are separate single, album, and radio charts...
Tomas Ledin has my heart forever! ❤❤
Ich Dah Seine Tränen = One Of Us
Jim Und Andy = Jim And Andy
Ich Sah Deine Tränen = One Of Us
Einfach nur genial.
Hello . already thought about doing a top 100 years 80 here in Brazil.
run to the hills
Thanks for this great flashbacks to my childhood. I've found some great tracks that I just forgotten all these years... Where do you get your sources for the playlists?
Thanks for your comment ! My source : www.offiziellecharts.de/
@@francispelletier3647 Ah, ok...that makes sense. But to get all entries of one year, you have to go through all 52 weeks individually? 😳
Ole Espana. That didn't end so good.
Lindos momentos de uma epoca que passou.
2 curiosities: You used the Dutch version of Nicole's "Ein bisschen Frieden", not the German one. Similarly, you used the English version of "Das Model" by Kraftwerk. To be fair, the single actually both had the German and the English version. But on the radio in Germany, they played the German version.
Claudia Mori - Non succedera più 1982 (with Adriano Celentano)
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Und Ein Engel Fliegt In Die Nacht = Souvenir
Souvenir originally by OMD
@@ToyTiger666 Exactly!
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Germany Calling = Beethoven's 5th
April 19 is the day I was born which is my birthday
Wolfgang Petry ohne Freunschafts-Bändchen gab's wirklich? Ich hielt das immer für einen Mythos.
Ich war 14 und hörte eher New Wave, Gothic & frühe EBM / Electro Sachen aber kenne doch einige Songs
also nicht viel verpasst vom Mainstream 😏
Der Job ist zwar mies ...
...doch ich brauch' den Kies...