Schöner fremder Mann
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Schöner fremder Mann is the fourth German
single recorded by U. S.
entertainer Connie Francis
.
The song is the German cover version
of Francis' U. S. recording Someone Else's Boy
. Although the original version didn't chart, it became one of Francis' biggest international successes, and it is the only song in her repertoire she recored in eight languages:
Schöner fremder Mann became Francis' biggest hit to date in Germany, peaking at # 1.
The B-side of the single was Funiculì, Funiculà, an Italian
recording from her U. S. album More Italian Favorites.
Schöner fremder Mann was Francis' last single in Germany to feature a foreign language song on the B-side. All subsequent singles would feature German-language recordings on both sides.
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
single recorded by U. S.
United States
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entertainer Connie Francis
Connie Francis
Connie Francis is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw...
.
The song is the German cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of Francis' U. S. recording Someone Else's Boy
Someone else's Boy
"Someone Else's Boy" is a song written by Hal Gordon and Athena Hosey. It was recorded by Connie Francis on January 31, 1961, in New York.The song was the flipside of Francis' hit single "Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart", which peaked at number seven on the U.S. pop chart. Although "Someone...
. Although the original version didn't chart, it became one of Francis' biggest international successes, and it is the only song in her repertoire she recored in eight languages:
- English
- German
- French (as Celui que je veux)
- Italian (as Ti conquisteró)
- Spanish (as El novio de otra, a. k. a. Mi tonto amor)
- Portuguese (as Um amor so meu)
- Dutch (as Jij bent niet van mij)
- Japanese (as - Yume no Deito).
Schöner fremder Mann became Francis' biggest hit to date in Germany, peaking at # 1.
The B-side of the single was Funiculì, Funiculà, an Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
recording from her U. S. album More Italian Favorites.
Schöner fremder Mann was Francis' last single in Germany to feature a foreign language song on the B-side. All subsequent singles would feature German-language recordings on both sides.