"C’EST WHAT?" The Hits As Sung By the Original Artists… In Other Languages - Volume 4

So when Dusty Springfield uses some curious words to say she only wants to be with you, don’t be foolish and mistake her meaning.  C’est what? (Mark R.)In an effort to reach a wider audience in the burgeoning music marketplace, many 60’s artists (as well as many more recent artists) recorded many of their hits in other languages. Some artists proved rather proficient singing in a different tongue (see Gene Pitney or Petula Clark, for instance) while others appear to have been reading from phonetic lyrics sheets, butchering someone else’s native tongue, probably with little understanding of what they were even singing (The Hollies, Johnny Cash).  Some songs attempted to replicate the English lyrics, changing certain words or lines for the sake of the rhyme. Others altered the words and meanings more drastically (the Supremes).

trax:

1. I Only Want to Be with You (German) - Dusty Springfield 2. Cry Like a Baby (Italians) - The Box Tops 3. Always Something There to Remind Me (German) - Sandie Shaw 4. Only Love Can Break a Heart (Italian) - Gene Pitney 5. My Girl (German) - The Temptations 6. I Will Follow Him (Japanese) - Little Peggy March 7. Suspicion (Italian) - Terry Stafford 8. Look Through Any Window (French) - The Hollies 9. So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) (Italian) - The Everly Brothers 10. Come See About Me (German) - The Supremes 11. Downtown (French) - Petula Clark 12. Sugar and Spice (German) - The Searchers 13. Judy's Turn to Cry (Italian) - Lesley Gore 14. As Tears Go by (Italian) - The Rolling Stones 15. I'm Ready for Love (Italian) - Martha & The Vandellas 16. Girl Don't Come (French) - Sandie Shaw 17. Groovin' (Spanish) - The Rascals 18. Mecca (Spanish) - Gene Pitney 19. Ring of Fire (Spanish) - Johnny Cash 20. I Know a Place (German) - Petula Clark 21. Simon Says (Italian) - 1910 Fruitgum Company 22. For Once in My Life (Spanish) - Stevie Wonder 23. Green Circles (German) - The Small Faces 24. In the Year 2525 (Italian) - Zager & Evans 25. Waterloo (Swedish) - Abba 26. Luka (Spanish) - Suzanne Vega 27. Madness (Italian) - Madness 28. Call Me (Spanish) - Blondie

…Compiled By Mark R / served by Gyro1966...