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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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a yellow and red circle with the words hot tip inside of it
Alt: a yellow and red circle with the words HOT TIP inside of it
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 11h
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 12h
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 12h
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 2d
This bizarre Italian-language take on the Scorpions' "Wind of Change" includes more saxophone but NO WHISTLING.
fiorello - ridi
YouTube video by mas simo
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 2d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 3d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
Oh, hang on... maybe this existed as a Greek folk song before Dick Dale got his paws on it!
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
If the Black Eyed Peas can put lyrics and their own spin on "Miserlou", this Greek gentleman certainly can.
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 4d
Manolis Angelopoulos - Miserlou [Greek pop] (1972)
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https://youtu.be/9BZ4mobFCgo
Manolis Angelopoulos - Miserlou [Greek pop] (1972)
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
A Chinese version of Bobby Brown's "Don't Be Cruel" also exists nonetheless.
Gu Du Lu
YouTube video by Li Ji Zhang - Topic
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
This is a Chinese-sung version of "Don't Be Cruel", but the Elvis one not the Bobby Brown one.
佛跳牆
YouTube video by Sam Hui - Topic
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 4d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 5d
Aha, right you are!
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 5d
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
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 5d
Let's have a Chinese cover of Roxette's "Joyride" with the very first line sung in English but needlessly altered for some reason.
我的灰姑娘
YouTube video by Leon Lai - Topic
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 5d
Here's a Swedish cover of the old Helen Shapiro / Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin number "It's My Party", with lyrics re-written by ABBA svengali (Sven-gali??) manager bloke Stig Anderson!
Lill Babs - Leva Livet (Live @ Melosongfestivalen 1964)
YouTube video by uschance
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 5d
The German Spice Girls were a trio called Nimm 3, who performed this translated cover of "Wannabe".
Nimm 3 - Wenn Du willst 1997
YouTube video by Hanss1234
youtu.be
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 7d
Appetite whetted
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 7d
Oh wow.
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Frenchbloke @darkoutside.co.uk · 7d
whilst the James Last version is almost surely an urban myth, this version of New Order's 'Blue Monday' is very much real
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJy5...
Ai Xiang Qing Gan Lan
YouTube video by Frankie Kao - Topic
www.youtube.com
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