Campari Soda (song)

"Campari Soda"
Single by Taxi
Released	1977
Format	CD single
Songwriter(s)	Dominique Grandjean

Campari Soda is a song of the Swiss band Taxi released in 1977. It was written by Dominique Grandjean who works as a psychiatrist today.

The song is sung in the Swiss German dialect of Zurich and deals with the incomparable feeling of flying and the painful longing of the faraway. The first lines of the song read as follows:

English translation:

The dreamy singing is underlain by unostentatious piano sounds. The song begins with a saxophone-solo.

In 2006, the song experienced a revival, when it was used in an advertising spot of the Swiss International Air Lines and released as a single for the first time because of the remarkable success of the advertisement. "Campari Soda" debuted at #6 on December 12, 2006. It rose to and peaked at #3 in its fourth week. The song spent a total of 35 weeks on the Swiss Singles Chart.

The song was unsuccessful during its original release. Campari Soda gained popularity only by the interpretations by numerous Swiss musicians, among others Stephan Eicher, Span, Doppelganger. Golden Boy and Miss Kittin covered "Campari Soda" for their 2002 album Or.

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