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

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Last three from me otherwise this could get too obsessive !

Have we had Topol - If I Were a rich Man ? Israel

Not sure if the presence of Paul Young disqualifies Senza Una Donna by Zucchero, Italy ?

But this is good, Orange Blossom Special by The Spotnicks from Sweden, who are still going apparently !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DhLnuh7TQI

Ok, a fourth....Azymuth - Jazz Carnival. Brazil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9n02sGMaiU

And a fifth....Aqua - Barbie Girl. More Swedes.

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Domenico Modugno - Volare

(Mentioned above)
Properly Nel blu dipinto di blu, by Domenico Modugno, who recorded it, and Franco Migliacci. It came third in Eurovision 1958. The 45 I was given at the time (and still have somewhere) was pressed in blue vinyl, possibly a first.

Chan Chan - Buena Vista Social Club

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Un homme et une femme - Francis Lai score to the 1966 Claude Lelouch film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsv6sgPbagU

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

I wonder if the later John Culshaw has ever done Karajan?

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And a fifth....Aqua - Barbie Girl. More Swedes.

They were Danish (not sure they'd want to claim them, though...)

Before you get to 200, must include Ride On Time by Black Box (all Italians, including alleged 'singer') and No Limit by 2 Unlimited (Dutch-Belgian), two of the biggest No 1 sellers of all time, I think.

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Boney M (West Germany)

Rivers Of Babylon
Brown Girl In The Ring
Ma Baker
Rasputin
Daddy Cool
Sunny
Mary's Boy Child
Belfast
Painter Man
Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holiday!
Gotta Go Home

11 more, off the top of my head - I have always loved Boney M

I am not going to provide links to every Boney M song but all of those can be added to the list. The first two were on the same single but the second came back as a remix in 1993. Mary's Boy Child was paired with Oh My Lord and Gotta Go Home was paired with El Lute. The others are I'm Born Again, We Kill the World (Don't Kill the World) and two Megamixes.

I make that 15 in total.

Example - Boney M - Sunny - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD8DcgpLp_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD8DcgpLp_w

Germany - 115

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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"

Yes - sort of.

Sylvia:

Y Viva Espana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aPp-4z-uw
Hasta La Vista - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plkgdqu7DuA

Sweden - 117

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Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKsp9_L24Q

Brazil - 118

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Les Compagnons de la Chanson (France) - Three Bells aka The Jimmy Brown Story

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Il Silenzio - Nini Rosso - Italy

Staggeringly a top 40 hit in the Summer of Love 1967. I remember Kenny Everett on pirate Radio London always referring to "the fab 39 and Il Silenzio" while it remained in the charts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FCesDXvRg

Yes - a bit belatedly - Italy 119.

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Neneh Cherry and Youssou N'Dou - Seven Seconds

Sweden and Senegal

Which opens up other Neneh Cherry hits. Buffalo Stance, Man Child ?

Yes - plus so far as Neneh Cherry is concerned, Kisses on the Wind, Inna City Mama, I've Got You Under My Skin, Money Love, Buddy X, Woman and Koothchi. I was doing most of this yesterday without any reference books but I've got one to hand now. As with Boney M, although she is hardly in the same category, I'm not putting in links to them all.

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsRz3TJDEY
Neneh Cherry - Manchild - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9VBMBS3qE
With Youssou - Seven Seconds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCpjFMvz-k

But these aspects of Sweden and Senegal take us to 129.

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Renée (Italian-born) and Renato - Save Your Love

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Bert peaked at 24 in UK on 29/12/1965.
http://www.officialcharts.com/artist...ert-kaempfert/

OK - thanks.

Bert Kaempfert - Bye Bye Blues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRauKmkToqo

Germany - 130

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

British, though.

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Joao Gilberto (Brazil, with Stan Getz) - The Girl from Ipanema.

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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.

Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30hr7DyAuAY

Modern Talking - Brother Louie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhL7On1F3o

(I hardly remembered this one at all, thankfully)

Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3idDnR5C5wg

There's also:

Oakey/Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE1lzqJCeJ0

Germany, Italy, Germany/Montserrat, UK/Italy - 134