Favourite non-English songs

[alfstone]

Since I live in Italy, the first one coming to my mind is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxZHBxlwZBw

Alfredo

[alfstone]

...and Elvis Presley sang many Italian songs too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsCBZxpoqIc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M3R3CEZ_mI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prUDuCi_1q0

...and Dean Martin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsLdxCg1aZM

...follows....

 

Alfredo

[alfstone]

...and I've read that this song too - by Adriano Celentano - was someway popular in the UK and USA, in the beginning of the Seventies :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXcRqFmFa8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol

http://boingboing.net/2009/12/17/gibberish-rock-song.html

it's NOT in Italian, it's a *gramelot* of vaguely *English sound* pseudo-words, meaning absolutely nothing.  

But the rhythm was great!  

Alfredo

[Hilary]

What about this one, Edith Piaf - Non, Je ne regrette rien - it made No 39 in the UK charts in 1965 by Shirley Bassey and was recently in the popular children's film Madagascar 3 (as sung by Frances McDormand)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88

[Hilary]

Felez Navidad as performed by our very own Holdempok

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=9496.msg127114#msg127114

[alfstone]

...and to finish my tour in Italian music popular abroad, I've witnessed directly that this one was known in Ireland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U2qgTvfpgs

...I was in a pub in Kinvara, and I was asked to sing an Italian song. I sang this one, and with my great surprise, everyone in the pub knew it!!!

 

Alfredo

[Hilary]

Somos Novios (It's Impossible) -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWQPqsfG-0

[alfstone]

...I was fogetting PFM, probably the only Italian pop band known in English-speaking countries:

E' FESTA!!! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNc8spdFZ5E

Alfredo

[Geir]

It may come as no surprise that this is a favourite of mine ; D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdYrUPa-6ko



Ok ok that's maybe cheating .. So, leaving the Norwegian aside for a bit and looking east ... Here's a nice little song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GDQGAZunEg

[64Guitars]

...I was fogetting PFM, probably the only Italian pop band known in English-speaking countries:

Ah, yes. Italian prog rock. I have their live album "Cook". A friend of mine had "The World Became The World" which I liked and wanted to buy (but I was young and lacked money). I seem to recall that "The World Became The World" had English lyrics though. Probably recorded specifically for the North American market. I don't remember if "Cook" has any singing (haven't listened to it in a long, long time). I thought it was mostly instrumental, but I could be wrong.