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"Günther's first performance in the US was on 3 February 2006, at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut; he performed "Tutti Frutti Summer Love" and "Ding Dong Song" as encores after enthusiastic shouting of "Gunther, Gunther" and "Ding Dong Song, Ding Dong Song" by Yale undergraduates. Günther closed out the performance saying, "I love Yale. Always remember: sex, love, champagne, and respect."
On 7 May he performed at the Tower Club, a Princeton University eating club. He performed a set of 5 songs from his Pleasureman album, two of which were encores ("Teeny Weeny String Bikini" and "Ding Dong Song"), to an enthusiastic crowd of Princeton undergraduates. Throughout the performance, security personnel had to forcibly remove a number of students from the stage to prevent their repeated attempts to interact with Günther and the Sunshine Girls."
I think the Yale thing is wrong. Everyone knows it's "glamour", and not "love".
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The Internet video cult - The Stanford Daily Online
"But everyone knows that the pinnacle of Internet video-dom is “Ding Dong Song” by Swedish pop sensation Gunther. It’s a sublime combination of ridiculosity — the inspired lyrics, Eurotrash techno beat, skimpily clad backup dancers and gratuitously sexy imagery. And above the din of the soft-core music video rises the man himself: the charismatic Pleasureman, Gunther in all his mulleted, mustachioed, open-shirted glory. So what is so appealing?
Every fan knows that — according to his Web site (gunthernet.com) — the four most important things in the Pleasureman’s life are “Champagne, Glamour, Sex and Respect!” Understand this and you’re halfway there. Even if you only enjoy Gunther’s throaty deadpans ironically, you have to admit that “Ding Dong Song” is catchy. Play Gunther at any Stanford party and people are sure to dance and sing along.
For a while I liked to imagine that Stanford alone had tapped into the glory of Gunther, and I took joy in this discovery. But this is not the case: in February, students at Yale organized an effort to bring Gunther to the campus, marking the Pleasureman’s first-ever U.S. concert. Total cost, according to The Yale Daily News: Around $16,000, funded by a student activities fee that was instituted last year and by a special request to the Yale College Council. Oh, and the annual budget of the committee that sponsored the visit: $25,800. Gunther must have been the event of the year."
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The Yale Herald - February 3, 2006 - Ding dong! Get the door, Günther’s just cum
"Yale was not immune to the Europop addiction:Agroup of Saybrook freshmen, led by Mike Lehmann, SY ’08, was inspired by Günther’s music to throw Günther-palooza, a party held on Jan. 28, 2005 that spanned three entryways and eight suites in Lanman-Wright Hall. The party’s centerpiece was a seven-foot-tall fountain with a photo of Günther on it, designed by architecture major Peter Maxwell, SY ’08, which supplied 30 gallons of punch throughout the night to the biggest Old Campus party of the school year. “We got the idea to have the party because I kept annoying my roommate with the ‘Ding Dong Song’ ringtone,” Lehmann said. “And then we realized that it would be a great idea to throw a party in Günther’s honor.”
Nine months later, as sophomores, the Saybrook 12-packproved they had kept Günther near to their hearts. “I wondered, ‘What would it take to get him to visit us at Yale?’” Lehmann said. “So I started sending e-mails to his managers through the website.”...
Lehmann’s hopes were answered with the creation of the CCA in November. The CCA funds, totaling near $25,000,make up a share of total disbursement of revenues that the controversial optional student-activities fee generated. “Any undergrad could apply for CCA funds to host an event at Yale,” YCC and CCA representative Bill Fishel, CC ’08, said. “The only requirement is that the event is open to all undergrads.”
When Lehmann learned of this available pool of money, the 12-pack hastily prepared a budget to bring Günther to Yale for a concert. Their application was approved by the CCA, the YCC, and the Yale College Dean’s Office within a week. “We were lucky that Günther was planning his first U.S. tour for the spring of 2006,” Lehmann said. “And we were able to convince Günther to come to Yale not only because of the CCA allotment, but also because, among various concert requests from colleges across the U.S., we impressed Günther’s managers the most with our photos from Günther-palooza 2005.”