One way wind (single)
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| One way wind | ||
|---|---|---|
| Single by: The Cats | ||
| From the album: Cats Aglow Katzen-spiele | ||
| B-side(s) | Country woman | |
| Released | July 31 , 1971 | |
| Type of carrier | Vinyl | |
| Genre | Eel sound | |
| Duration | 3:39 | |
| Label | Imperial , EMI | |
| Writer(s) | Arnold Mühren | |
| Producer(s) | Klaas Leyen | |
| Highest position(s) in the charts | ||
| Dutch Top 40 #3 Switzerland #1 | ||
| The Cats | ||
| 1971 Don’t waste your time 1971 One way wind 1972 Let’s dance | ||
| Sequence on Cats aglow | ||
| N/A A1 One way wind A2 My friend Joe | ||
| Portal Music | ||
One way wind is a song written by Arnold Mühren . He wrote it for his band The Cats . Mühren got his inspiration for this song during a tour of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles , when he firstsaw wind-blown trees growing with the wind.
The Cats
The Cats released it in the summer of 1971. It eventually became their best-selling record, although the single did not reach first place in the Dutch and Belgian charts. The single sold more than a million copies in Germany alone , earning it the Golden Dog . The single sold 130,000 copies in the Netherlands alone. The song was first released on the LP of the same name and later several times on compilation albums.
The song Country Woman , written by Piet Veerman, appeared on the B-side of the single . Later, Country Woman also appeared as the B-side of the single Hard to be friends , which was produced by the American Al Capps .
Cover versions
Soon after The Cats had scored a big hit with it in the Netherlands and Belgium, other artists recorded it as a cover . The title was adapted to their country of origin:
- German : Katja Ebstein and Mark Lorenz sang the version Abendwind,
- which was also performed by Piet Veerman
- German: Chanice Joy,
- and Oswald Sattler sang the version Sommerwind
- German: The Cats already sang a German version under One Way Wind
- Swedish : Havet’s find was sung by various artists; just like När and find drar förbi
- Finnish : Ikuinen tuuli
- Norwegian : Find fra vest
- Czech : Karel Gott sang Se mnou vitr rád si brouká
- Afrikaans : Gerrie Pretorius Westewind
- Dutch/Flemish: Westenwind ( Dana Winner ),
- Dana Winner (English)
- Windekind ( Ann Christy , also 1971),
- Texelstroom and Zuidenwind ( Frans Bauer)
- and Marianne Weber )
- There are instrumental versions by Klaus Wunderlich and Anthony Ventura ‘s orchestra
Furthermore, The Cats released a German-language version under the same name in 1972 on the LP Katzen-spiele . Its text was written by Otto Maske, a pseudonym of John Möring .
The Argentinian single (with this song as Viento sin regreso on the B-side, 1971) was sung in English.
- One Way Wind – The Cats – instrumental cover by Dave Monk
All in all, the song was covered approximately 150 times.
Hit rating
In the fourteen weeks that One Way Wind was in the Dutch Top 40 , it achieved third position. The single reached first place in the Swiss charts and further scored highly in neighboring countries, reaching fourth place in both Belgium and Germany . The single was released in 38 countries and achieved gold in the Netherlands and several other countries .
The song reached number 9 on the Volendammer Top 1000 , a hit list compiled in 2013 by a large number of local radio and television stations in North Holland.
Dutch Top 40
Before it made it to this list it was alarm disc .
| Hit rating: weeks 31 to 44 in 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Week: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||||||
| Position: | 16 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 28 | 31 | out | |||||
Dutch Daverende 30
| Hit listing: 31-7-1971 to 22-10-1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||||||
| Position: | 20 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 23 | out | |||||||
Belgian BRT Top 30
| Hit listing: 21-8-1971 to 26-11-1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||||||
| Position: | 20 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 30 | out | |||||||
Flemish Ultratop 30
| Hit rating: 21-8-1971 to 12-11-1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||||||
| Position: | 16 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 22 | out | |||||||
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