D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities

Familiar Hits in Foreign Languages


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Adriano Celentano - Stand By Me (Italian) (1962)

Annie Philippe - Baby Love (French) (1965)

Bjork - Fool On The Hill (Iceland) (1977) 

Caterina Caselli - Paint It Black (Italian) (1967)

Chicago - Questions 67 and 68 (Japanese) (1970)

David Bowie - Helden/Heroes (German) (1977)

Donna Summer/German Cast of “Hair” - Age of Aquarius (German) (1968)

Streaplers - Warm California Sun (Swedish) (?)

Les Compagnons de la Chanson - Yellow Submarine (French) (1966)

Los Tres Tristes Tigres - Alone Again Naturally (Venezuela) (1972)

Streaplers - I Don’t Like Mondays (Swedish) (1979)

Beach Boys - In My Room (German) (1965)

Erik Einstein - Mellow Yellow (Hebrew) (1968)

Johnny Cash - Auf Deutsch 5 Titel (5 Titles in German) (1965)

Jürgen Drews - Let Your Love Flow (German) (1977)

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Sammy Davis Jr. - I Have But One Life To Live (1969)

Stuart Damon - Eros (1970)

Beach Boys - Matchpoint of Our Love (1978) 

Johnny Watson and Larry Williams - Two For The Price of One (1967)

The Free Design - There Is a Song (1971)

Russ Ballard - Since You Been Gone (1976)

The Teen Queens - You Good Boy, You Get Cookie (1958) Mack David, who wrote this infectious little tune, was the older brother of Hal David. 

Gary S. Paxton - The Big "A" = The Big "M" (1978)

The Insects - Let’s Bug The Beatles (1964)

 

Note the spelling of "Beetles". Were they afraid of a lawsuit? Was Roy Cohn their manager?

Bill Haley - Tongue-Tied Tony (1965) 

Frankie Valli - Life and Breath (1975) 

 

His only Motown album. Motown had seem better days, but as ever, FV and the FS were a quality act. 

Geronimo Black - Low Ridin’ Man/Siesta (1972) Ex-Mothers of Invention members.

Grand Funk Railroad (The Fabulous Pack) - Harlem Shuffle (1967) I posited this as a trivia question. No one got it right, which is to say, no one guessed. 

Osmonds - My Drum (1972)

Redbone - We Were All Wounded (At Wounded Knee) (1972) 

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D-Sides, Orphans, and OdditiesBy Gilbert Neal

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