“Military Drums” by Hubert KaH

"Military Drums" was a 1987 stand-alone single from the German synth-pop crew Hubert KaH, with Michael Cretu writing the music, Susanne Müller-Pi the lyrics, and Cretu producing alongside Armand Volker. As Hirschburger remembered it for James Arena in 2017, it was dashed off in roughly 10 minutes on Ibiza through a fog of jet lag, then topped with trumpets and cut in around five hours. Carol Kenyon sings backup.

It was the band's first entry on Billboard's US club play dance chart, reaching number 8 in November 1987, and their last Top 40 hit at home, at number 35. It later opened a Germany-only special edition of Tensongs, turned up on American and Japanese pressings of Sound of My Heart, and in 2005 Hubert Kemmler recut it for Seelentaucher.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.