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Wünderbar

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"Wünderbar"
Single by Tenpole Tudor
from the album Eddie, Old Bob, Dick and Gary
B-side"Tenpole 45"
Released17 July 1981
GenrePunk rock
Length2:52
LabelStiff Records (BUY 120)
Songwriter(s)Edward Tudor-Pole
Producer(s)Alan Winstanley
Tenpole Tudor UK singles chronology
"Swords of a Thousand Men"
(1981)
"Wünderbar"
(1981)
"Throwing My Baby Out with the Bathwater"
(1982)

"Wünderbar" is a song by Tenpole Tudor. Written by Edward Tudor-Pole and produced by Alan Winstanley, it was released by Stiff Records on 17 July 1981,[1] and entered the UK Singles Chart on 1 August 1981, climbing to No. 16 and spending 8 weeks in the charts.[2] It is a re-recorded version, somewhat faster than the version on the group's debut studio album Eddie, Old Bob, Dick and Gary.

Critical reception

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In ironic review in August 1981 David Hepworth of Smash Hits said that the band "had made a noise more normally associated with a coachload of Viking soccer hooligans" and summarised "these men should be locked up, failing that they should be stars."[3]

Track listing

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7" single
  1. "Wünderbar" - 2:52
  2. "Tenpole 45" - 4:12

Chart performance

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Chart Peak
position
Belgian Singles Chart[4] 2
Dutch Singles Chart[4] 4
UK Singles Chart[2] 16

References

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  1. ^ "Stiff discography". Stiff Records. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  2. ^ a b "Wunderbar". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
  3. ^ Hepworth, David (6–19 August 1981). "Tenpole Tudor: "Wünderbar"" (PDF). Smash Hits. Vol. 3, no. 15. Peterborough: EMAP National Publications, Ltd. p. 26. ISSN 0260-3004. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022 – via World Radio History.
  4. ^ a b "Tenpole Tudor – Wünderbar (song)". Retrieved 24 February 2015.