Songs that became hits in America sung in a foreign language

The following had chart hits with "Love Me With All Your heart"

Steve Allen-#85 in 1963-Quando Calinte El Sol

Ray Charles Singers-#3-1964

Bachelors-#38-1966

I believe the version your referring too Steve is the Steve Allen version-
Quando Calinte El Sol, which really is "When The Sun Is Hot"
The English version of the tune is called "Love Me With All Your Heart"

 

Eres Tu (Touch The Wind)-Mocedades

from 1974

 

Although not their best-known song, The Police's "Hungry For You" is sung mostly in French. Also, Falco wrote "Der Kommissar" and performed it in German.

Nena's "99 Luftballoons" was mentioned here, but remember that she also did "99 Red Balloons" in English, which was very popular in the US. Also, After The Fire's cover of "Der Kommissar" in English is probably better-known in the US than Falco's original recording in German.

 

Cuando Calienta el Sol written/sung by Los Hermanos Rigual (Rigual brothers) from Cuba.

That's the original version, a hit in Spanish too. More than a hit, an eternal song.

http://www.platiquemos-letstalk.com.../Cuandocalientaelsol/cuandocalientaelsol.html

Maybe a cover was the USA hit, as it was covered by many.

Later: Did a search and Trini López recorded it. Maybe that's the one that was popular in the US.

 

Was "Never on Sunday" a hit in the US, sung in its original Greek?

 

Snippets in Spanish:

Bésame Mucho by everybody, including the Beatles.

Que sera, sera by Doris Day. Pig Spanish really.

 

Did the Gipsy Kings' "Bamboleo" chart in the US? I remember them playing Saturday Night Live with it in the late 80's, making them somewhat of a household name as far as international acts.

 

I need some help here with title/artist as my French is non-existant, Je'Te (????) by (???)? A sexy french single - discussed on these boards about a year back. Good looking singer too - -

Someone here knows what I'm talking about!

 

Al: You're probably thinking of "Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. Covered by many other singers.

 

Didn't Claudine Longet have a couple sung in French?

 

Eres Tu

Eres Tu by ?????? was a hit here around 74

 

I forgot;

Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66

 

Did Plastic Bertrand "Ca plane pour moi" chart is the US? I always loved that one. Don't have clue what it was about, but that makes no difference....

 

It did; didn't get very high, but a fine record, better than a lot out at the time.

The loose translation could also be "This is the life for me," but I'm a long way from my high school French, too.

ED

 

The Ketchup Song (Asereje) - Las Ketchup

 

Re: Eres Tu

Mocedades, from Spain, on the Paramount-distributed Tara label. Grant had posted that previously. Along with Los Bravos("Black Is Black")and Miguel Rios("A Song Of Joy"), I can't think, offhand, of any other Spaniards who have had a significant hit in the U.S.

Only one in the US: her cover of Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Blue." Otherwise, her US chart singles were sung in English.

ED

 

I don't know if it is the US version, cuz I had never heard the song before ... but it appears on 'Hey! Look What I Found - Vol. 10'.

Didn't 'Little' Peggy March do a whole LP in german?

 

Re: Re: Eres Tu

Las Ketchup! I'm pretty sure it went Top 40, but I don't know how high it got. It wasn't the massive hit that was anticipated though.

 

She did, for RCA International, IIRC. I'll have to dig it out sometime, a mono copy is lurking somewhere....

ED

 

C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) - - Eartha Kitt

 

'Sie Liebt Dich (She loves You)' scraped the bottom of the chart at #97 in June, '64.

 

The only two that I could think of (and yes I know they have already been posted)were:
Eres tu
99 Red Ballons in German.

Wait a minute.....what about that 2 yr old singing french kid.....I think the song was "Oh Baby".

What about "La Do Da" by Journey? Is gibberish a foreign language?

April Wine's "Just Between You and Me" has that line sung in french at one point. Does that count?

Sprocket

 

I know many of the songs mentioned above, but as a doo-wop fan, I've come across the following linguistics, but not sure what language they are derived from:

"Oom-a-poppa-cow-pop-a-cow-pop-a-cow-cow."

"Rama lama ding dong."

"Ni-ni-di-ni-da-nah"

"Yip-yip-mow-mow-oom-mapa-cow-cow."

"Wep-wep doom, ba-doom, ba doom, ba doom."

Not sure what it means after all these years, but sure do like the stuff...

(So who was it that put the "bomp" in the "bomp-bomp-bomp-a-bomp?")

 

My Wife is into Doo-Wop too! She definetly knows her stuff! She has tons of Doo-Wop Cee Dee's...she's also a Motown fan from way back...