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English Songs With Some Foreign Lyrics
Compiling a list of songs that are in English but have some foreign lyrics - NOT including songs that were entirely in a different language (for example, Domenique by The Singing Nun would not go on this list).
In some cases, foreign words actually make up the title of the song, like the first five below:
Cara Mia - Jay and the Americans
My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
Chanson D'Amour - Art and Dottie Todd
Volare (Bobby Rydell version)
O Dio Mio - Annette
Others just have some foreign words / lyrics embedded in the song), such as:
Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell
Speedy Gonsales - Pat Boone
Look What They've Done To My Song Ma - Melanie
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My Melody Of Love - Bobby Vinton
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Several artists come to mind
Louis Prima
Lou Monte
Dean Martin
José Feliciano
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Michelle - The Beatles
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Snoopy vs. the Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen
Mele Kalikimaka - Bing Crosby
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
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Lady Marmalade - Labelle
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Say “Si Si” - The Mills Brothers
Una Paloma Blanca - George Baker Selection
Mambo Italiano - Rosemary Clooney
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Some of the numbers in the countdown intro to the #1 hit Whooly Bully are in Spanish.
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Jennifer Juniper - Donovan
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Tzena Tzena Tzena - The Weavers (Hebrew)
Delaware - Perry Como (Italian, French, German)
Christmas Auld Lang Syne - Bobby Darin (Scots)
The Girl From Ipanema [album version] - Getz/Gilberto (Portuguese)
Requiem For The Masses - The Association (Latin, Greek)
Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba (Xhosa)
Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero - Rene and Rene (Spanish)
Witchi Tai To - Everything Is Everything (Comanche)
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison (Sanskrit)
Mr. Roboto - Styx (Japanese)
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Would Iko Iko (The Dixie Cups) qualify?
The lyrics in question are:
Jocomo fee no an nah nay
Jocomo fee nah nay
Some linguists and musical scholars believe the song has elements of French Creole. Others say it includes West African dialects. or Native American languages. Or maybe all of the above.
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Had I thought of "Iko Iko", I would have included it. I had been trying to come up with as many languages as possible, and was trying to add Creole as well as additional Native American and African languages to my list. So I think it's well worth including, especially if all three linguistic origins are involved.
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Ma Belle Amie - The Tee-Set
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C'est Si Bon - Conway Twitty released in 1960. I heard it on WLS