This article is about the Swedish music group. For the Spanish phrase, see ¡Ay, caramba!
Caramba was a Swedish novelty music group. They released one self-titled album in 1981, with the single "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" peaking at number 1 in Sweden.[1] The album is chiefly notable due to the entire album being recorded in nonsense language. The songs are made to sound like certain styles of music by imitating the phonemic structure of languages from the appropriate regions. The album was produced by Michael B. Tretow, who is primarily famous for engineering ABBA's records, and featured vocals by another Polar Music artist, Ted Gärdestad. A number of other noted Swedish musicians and singers were rumoured to have taken part in the Caramba recordings, but Tretow confirmed in an interview in 2015[2] that he and Gärdestad were the primary artists. Roger Palm, the drummer for ABBA, played drums on "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" and Kalle Sändare [sv], a Swedish comedian known for his prank calls, was involved on the track "Ahllo", according to Tretow.
The track "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" has been re-issued as part of Michael B. Tretow's 1999 album Greatest Hits, the Ted Gärdestad four-CD box set Solregn in 2001, and a number of other compilations of 1980s hits and Swedish novelty recordings, and the Caramba album was released on CD in 2011.
The specific phrase "Hubba Hubba Zoot" seems to have a precedent going back at least to the mid-1940s, as heard in the 1946 Spike Jones recording "Hawaiian War Chant" at about 1 minutes 45 seconds.[3]
The artists of Caramba all used pseudonyms. This is how they were credited on the album sleeve:
Carlos Ih Lura, ahllo
Zoltan Zull, violotta
Dr. Fritz Höfner, baribasso
Tudor Ludor, batterie
Abdullah Presley, tomba
Zingo Allah, prutto
Ihto Amin, paahuve
Gaston El Ton Yon, pianissimo
King Nam, a nam
Clapton Combo, gitaronimo
King Kong, tango
Hazze Kamikaze, teknico del son
Giorgio Martini, producto
Productionedit
Recordeli pour Studio Garage De Garbage
Picturella par Bengto Hoo
Coloretta par cartong: Torsk Prod
Track listingedit
Blaztah 1 (Side 1)
"Ali Baba" – 3:51
"Spottnjik" – 3:51
"Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" – 3:23
"Eine Feine" – 3:43
"Fido" – 3:47
Blaztah A (Side A)
"Aitho" – 3:28
"Anna Kapoe" – 4:17
"Donna Maya" – 3:07
"Ahllo" – 2:42
"Carhumba" – 3:37
Influences on cultureedit
The "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" track was parodied in the UK on a Quakers Harvest Crunch cereal ad, with the tag line of Hubba Hubba Yum Yum.
The track "Fido" was slightly reworked by Caramba, named "Fedora" and used in an advertising campaign for Kia-Ora throughout the early 1980s. This version was released as a single on the "Billco" label (BILL 101) in 1983 titled "Fedora (I'll be your dawg)" – Caramba (B side "Ralph and Rolph").[4] It reached No. 56 on the U.K. singles chart.[5]
^. Archived from the original on 20 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
^"YouTube.com". YouTube. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
^"Caramba – Fedora (I'll be Your Dawg) (1983, Vinyl)". Discogs.
^"CARAMBA | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts.
Further readingedit
Parkvall, Mikael (2006). Limits of Language. London: Battlebridge. ISBN1-903292-04-2.
External linksedit
Caramba Caramba at Discogs
January 01, 1970
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