Wenn du gehst is the ninth German

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

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 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 B-side was Gondola d'Amore.

Both songs had been written especially in German for Francis since after her previous eight German singles it had become clear that compositions of German origin were favored by the German audiences instead of cover versions

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. hits.

"Wenn du gehst" peaked at # 2 of the German charts

"Gondola d'Amore" was subsequently recorded by Francis in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

as Toutes les étoiles.