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Migrant from another place. Familiar songs sung in other languages, suggestions more than welcome! Now with more than 3000 scrollable foreign covers archived from that aforementioned other place, most of which have links that still work.

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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · Nov 20

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · Mar 31

Kamal Oujdi - Arouahi Lia (All That She Wants) [Morocco, Raï Dance-pop] (1995) Arabic cover of Ace of Base's classic 'All That She Wants'
https://redd.it/qcoac1
https://youtu.be/jO3eqj6nBFo

Kamal Oujdi - Arouahi Lia (All That She Wants) [Morocco, Raï Dance-pop] (1995) Arabic cover of Ace of Base's classic 'All That She Wants'

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 8h

More Arabic language disco nuggets for your delight, this is a cover of The Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive", all the way from Libya.

Habibi Funk // حبيبي فنك : Najib Alhoush - Ya Aen Daly

YouTube video by Habibi Funk

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a curious cover of the originally Belgian hit "Y Viva España", known to holidaying Brits of a certain age in its English version by Sylvia (who was Swedish).

This time it is sung in Lebanese Arabic.

Melhem Barakat - Eviva Espania - Master I ملحم بركات - افيفا اسبانيا - ماستر

YouTube video by Digital Audio Mastering

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a Hebrew cover of "All Together Now", but sadly it's the one by The Beatles not the one by The Farm.

חוה אלברשטיין - שירו אחרי

YouTube video by Chava Alberstein - חוה אלברשטיין

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 10h

Unbelievable as it may seem, this is the first time this rather lacklustre Danish-sung cover of Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" has featured in these columns.

Hilda & Keld Heick - Kom Nu Op

YouTube video by Henrik Petersen

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 2d

This French cover of Johnny Cash's "I Walk The Line" has also somehow been recontextualized in translation to be about table tennis.

Ping-pong (feat. Jacques-Henry Rys et son orchestre)

YouTube video by Janine Wolf - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 2d

Irish followers may be surprised to discover that a Swedish version of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" exists, and that all references to the Emerald Isle have ostensibly been removed in translation.

Du ler med dina ögon

YouTube video by Alice Babs - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 2d

Oddly, the Italian version of Johnny Wakelin's 1976 one-hit wonder "In Zaire" was recontextualised to be about Israel.

Gli Amici Di Famiglia -- Israele

YouTube video by JaskoDisko

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d

This bizarre Italian-language take on the Scorpions' "Wind of Change" includes more saxophone but NO WHISTLING.

fiorello - ridi

YouTube video by mas simo

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d

This is what Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" sounds like in Czech sung by some other people.

Vrať se k dětským hrám (Uptown Girl)

YouTube video by Karel Vágner se svým orchestrem - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 5d

In France, The Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry" becomes "FAT Girls Don't Cry" in this translated cover.

Grosse fille pleure pas

YouTube video by Henri Salvador - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

If you've never seen a very pale Dutchman singing Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)" in his native tongue while wandering around an art gallery accompanied by a crowd of brightly-coloured dancers, you're going to see one now.

Thijs Boontjes - Deze Nacht (All Night Long)

YouTube video by Excelsior Recordings

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, hang on... maybe this existed as a Greek folk song before Dick Dale got his paws on it!

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

If the Black Eyed Peas can put lyrics and their own spin on "Miserlou", this Greek gentleman certainly can.

Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 6d

Manolis Angelopoulos - Miserlou [Greek pop] (1972)
https://redd.it/57wva2
https://youtu.be/9BZ4mobFCgo

Manolis Angelopoulos - Miserlou [Greek pop] (1972)

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

Say good evening to this vintage Cambodian Khmer retread of Procul Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale".

Apart From Love (A Whiter Shade Of Pale)

YouTube video by Sinn Sisamouth - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

Here's a curious strummy German-language interpretation of The Cars' Ethiopian famine soundtracking smash "Drive", as performed by a TV personality from around those parts.

Nicht nach Haus (Drive)

YouTube video by Jon Flemming Olsen - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

A propos of nothing at all, here is a Japanese-sung version of the old Irving Berlin jazz standard "Alexander's Ragtime Band".

世紀の楽団

YouTube video by Akira Kishii - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

A Chinese version of Bobby Brown's "Don't Be Cruel" also exists nonetheless.

YouTube video by Li Ji Zhang - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

Readers of a certain vintage may well remember Nina Simone's take on "My Baby Just Cares For Me" with its Aardman claymation video... so here is an Italian cover of the same song - with a man doing the singing - but with no video at all.

Tu non fai niente per me (My Baby Just Cares for Me)

YouTube video by Paolo Belli - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

This is what Diana Ross & The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" sounds like in Argentinean Spanish, sung by a blonde lady with a cat on her shoulder.

Me Mantienes Colgada (You Keep Me Hangin' On)

YouTube video by Rubi - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

This is a Chinese-sung version of "Don't Be Cruel", but the Elvis one not the Bobby Brown one.

YouTube video by Sam Hui - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

Originally by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, later covered by The Beat.. here's a Swedish version of "The Tears Of A Clown"

Spår av en tår

YouTube video by Blue Light - Topic

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 6d

A Serbian version of "Somebody To Love", a tune far more familiar in its Jefferson Airplane incarnation.

Seka Kojadinović - Niko Te Neće Zavoleti (Somebody To Love)

YouTube video by Peđa Radović

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 7d

Aha, right you are!

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 7d

One for the Eurofans out there: a Korean cover of Nicole's victorious 1982 smash "Ein bißchen Frieden"... or "A Little Peace" as we anglophones knew it.

전영 - 작은평화

YouTube video by 이호관