Top 40 Hits - Not Abba, British, N American, Jamaican or Australasian - Until 2000

[pilamenon]

Brother Louie - Modern Talking, Germany, No 4 in 1986

Has anyone mentioned 'Seven Tears' - Goombay Dance Band, Germany, No 1 in 1982

or Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce, Italy, No 1 in 1981?

Giorgio Moroder's 'From Here To Eternity' was great stuff in 1977.

[pilamenon]

Whoops - just discovered that Joe Dolce wasn't Italian, after all these years...

[Lat-Literal]

Brother Louie - Modern Talking, Germany, No 4 in 1986

Has anyone mentioned 'Seven Tears' - Goombay Dance Band, Germany, No 1 in 1982

or Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce, Italy, No 1 in 1981?

Giorgio Moroder's 'From Here To Eternity' was great stuff in 1977.

Thank you Pilamenon.

My challenge was taken on and I was proven wrong. Beefy has found one of the loopholes with Boney M. I haven't gone there yet and there is at least one other. As there are a few posts including yours not fully addressed to date, I will now insist that there are no more than 200. Time may tell. It depends on how comprehensive any of us wants to try to be:

A-ha - Take On Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

Norway - 100

Thanks to all contributors!

[cloughie]

We have had Serge and the Singing Nun.

Unless you can advise me to the contrary, I feel that Bert Kampfert's "Bye Bye Blues" was only a US hit?

"Maria Elena" is an astonishingly good pick - to be frank, I had no idea.

Los Indios Tabaros - Maria Elena - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8UHGTWbbI0

The Gilbert Becaud from 1975 if my memory serves me well is astute:

A Little Love and Understading - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwKItmEuiSU

...which picks up on this:



Edith Piaf - Milord - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUNOVC1qVjc

and this:



Charles Aznavour - She - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1YipLB-rQQ

Brazil, France, France, France - 69

Bert peaked at 24 in UK on 29/12/1965.

http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/12164/bert-kaempfert/

[MickyD]

Heaven knows what this says about me, but I practically wore this 45 out when I was 5 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz8W8N7tZX4

[LMcD]

(1) Does anybody know which recording of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' - well, the opening - featured in the charts after its use in '2001 A Space Odyssey'? I have a feeling it was conducted by Lorin Maazel.
(2) Does Roger Whittaker (Kenyan/British) count? I think he had some chart success.
(3) Hugo Alfven's 'Swedish Rhapsody' was a big hit in the early 1950s. Different versions - admittedly not recorded by Swedes - reached 2nd and 4th positions in the chart.
(4) Emile Ford (St Lucia) and the Checkmates. If memory serves, the Number 1 spot was contested by 'What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes For?' and Adam Faith's 'What Do You Want?'

[Beef Oven!]

Beefy has found one of the loopholes with Boney M.

Lat, what's the 'loophole' with Boney M? They fit your regs.

[cloughie]

(1) Does anybody know which recording of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' - well, the opening - featured in the charts after its use in '2001 A Space Odyssey'? I have a feeling it was conducted by Lorin Maazel.
(2) Does Roger Whittaker (Kenyan/British) count? I think he had some chart success.

BPO Bohm and the Blue Danube was BPO Karajan

I often wonder what proportion of the population knows what comes after the intro, and how many know it was written by Richard Strauss?

[cloughie]

Lat, what's the 'loophole' with Boney M? They fit your regs.

As Euro-Caribbean they fit the bill. The creator is German, the singers Caribbean. Your heading mentions Jamaica but not other Caribbean Islands such as Monserrat! However the Caribbean is considered to be in North America. Hair splittingly interesting?

[LMcD]

Also from the 1950s:
Winifred Atwell (Trinidad)
Perez Prado (Mexico)

And from the 1970s - has anybody mentioned 'Baccara' (Spanish)?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

BPO Bohm and the Blue Danube was BPO Karajan

I thought that John Culshaw (the earlier one) said in his memoirs that the Sprach excerpt was the Karajan/VPO?

[cloughie]

I thought that John Culshaw (the earlier one) said in his memoirs that the Sprach excerpt was the Karajan/VPO?

https://www.discogs.com/Various-2001-A-Space-Odyssey-Music-From-The-Motion-Picture-Sound-Track/master/88539

[burning dog]

Y Viva Espana -not sure where it was A hit but it got a lot of radio play in the UK

by a Belgian always though it was Dutch .

The original title made no sense "Eviva Espana"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

https://www.discogs.com/Various-2001...k/master/88539

- so it's the Karajan on the film, but on the film "soundtrack" album, it was Bohm! Lottie! Ein schwindell!!!!

[Beef Oven!]

As Euro-Caribbean they fit the bill. The creator is German, the singers Caribbean. Your heading mentions Jamaica but not other Caribbean Islands such as Monserrat! However the Caribbean is considered to be in North America. Hair splittingly interesting?

The lead singer didn’t actually do the singing. The German creator actually took the vocals.