Martin Böttcher did not respond at first, but after some personal words he delivered a composition within half an hour.
Being known in Germany for a completely different music style Böttcher decided to take his pseudonym "Michael Thomas" for this composition.
In 1961 the first four tracks for a record by the Waikikis were produced, among them "Hawaii Tattoo", that soon gained international fame.
Martin Böttcher himself recorded a version under the title Hawaii Tattoo Dixie with a formation he called Mike Thomas and his Wall Street Babies.
In 1962 he included the famous version by the Waikikis in his soundtrack of the Heinz Rühmann movie Max the Pickpocket, where it could be heard coming from a jukebox.