A song very much in the spirit of the times. Munich-born singer David Lubega acquired a taste for mambo while spending time in Miami in his late teens. And he spread both the sound and the love in — thanks to "a little bit of " Pamela, Sandra, Rita et al. The crooner won ladies' hearts as well as a string of platinum discs as he topped the charts all over Europe and elsewhere, even though he would be unable to repeat the success.
Searing female vocals, a rapper and a pumping house beat: Their greatest, hit, however, was " I've Got The Power". This duo's name stands for the biggest scandal ever in German pop music history. Two years later, however, it emerged that they had been lip-synching and never actually sang on the records — and Milli Vanilli's career was over. Nena were a Neue Deutsche Welle based in West Berlin — an appropriate backdrop for their global pro-peace hit "99 Luftballons" in the mids, with the Cold War still in full swing.
After making it to 2 in the US, the band re-recorded the single in English — and the new version "99 Red Balloons" promptly topped the charts in the UK too in Two years later a young German DJ turned the reggae number into a tropical house hit.
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Despite that, only seven foreign-language songs managed to make it to the top of the list. Here, we look at each of them.
Y ou can scroll to the bottom for our playlist of all the songs, as well as a few related songs. Despite the lack of non-English songs on the Billboard Hot , this Italian song was the number-one song of the year the very first year the Billboard list was made. It was number one for three weeks in the summer of , and there was also a successful English cover version sung by A Taste of Honey in Some say this song may have become a hit on the radio because DJs were desperate for pleasant music to play in the aftermath of President John F. Whatever the reason, the song was number one for four weeks in December The story of this song does not have a very happy ending, however.
The song was a failure, and after struggling for a few years, she and a close friend killed themselves in The song is about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which seems like a funny choice but is actually pretty fitting: It was originally a Mexican folk song, with the earliest known recording being from In , it was turned into a rock-and-roll hit by Ritchie Valens, who was only 17 years old at the time. The song was the first time that Mexican music had a big impact on the United States music industry. At the time, it only reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot , however.
Ritchie Valens was credited with a posthumous number-one song credit. The original version of this song, which has only Spanish lyrics, also ranked on the Billboard list, but it was not as successful as the English one.