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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.
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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The Cool Candys and their stupendous Swedish version of 'Fotograf'. (One for @foreigncovers.bsky.social ?)
Full show now on YouTube and Mixcloud.
🖥️ youtu.be/m6KVxgsYFWE
🎧 mixcloud.com/Enda_Guinan/let-there-be-music-with-enda-guinan-beatles-covers-golden-slumbers-171125/
#BeatlesCovers #Beatles
Full show now on YouTube and Mixcloud.
🖥️ youtu.be/m6KVxgsYFWE
🎧 mixcloud.com/Enda_Guinan/let-there-be-music-with-enda-guinan-beatles-covers-golden-slumbers-171125/
#BeatlesCovers #Beatles
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Cool Candys and their stupendous Swedish version of 'Fotograf'. (One for @foreigncovers.bsky.social ?)
Full show now on YouTube and Mixcloud.
🖥️ youtu.be/m6KVxgsYFWE
🎧 mixcloud.com/Enda_Guinan/let-there-be-music-with-enda-guinan-beatles-covers-golden-slumbers-171125/
#BeatlesCovers #Beatles
Full show now on YouTube and Mixcloud.
🖥️ youtu.be/m6KVxgsYFWE
🎧 mixcloud.com/Enda_Guinan/let-there-be-music-with-enda-guinan-beatles-covers-golden-slumbers-171125/
#BeatlesCovers #Beatles
This Italian cover of "You Might Need Somebody" which Shola Ama had a hit with in the 90s was actually recorded a year before Randy Crawford's version.
And - if the accompanying video montage is to be believed - has been repurposed to be about the underground public transport network.
And - if the accompanying video montage is to be believed - has been repurposed to be about the underground public transport network.
Anna Oxa - Metropolitana
YouTube video by brubus61
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November 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This Italian cover of "You Might Need Somebody" which Shola Ama had a hit with in the 90s was actually recorded a year before Randy Crawford's version.
And - if the accompanying video montage is to be believed - has been repurposed to be about the underground public transport network.
And - if the accompanying video montage is to be believed - has been repurposed to be about the underground public transport network.
Join in singing this Polish language cover of The Police's 1983 world-eating stalker song smash "Every Breath You Take" with its handy in-screen lyrics!
Perfect- Każdy oddech Twój
YouTube video by Owocowelody
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November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Join in singing this Polish language cover of The Police's 1983 world-eating stalker song smash "Every Breath You Take" with its handy in-screen lyrics!
Here's a Czech-sung cover of a Paul Young cover of a Hall and Oates song called "Every Time You Go Away" which is a classic Christmas song without being a Christmas song at all.
Also: nice video.
Also: nice video.
Stanislav Hložek - Za to může déšť, ne já
YouTube video by MavZag
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Here's a Czech-sung cover of a Paul Young cover of a Hall and Oates song called "Every Time You Go Away" which is a classic Christmas song without being a Christmas song at all.
Also: nice video.
Also: nice video.
Not sure if this Czechoslovakian interpretation of "Don't You Want Me" was what Phil Oakey, Jo Callis et al had in mind when penning their greatest hit..
O. Szabová & D. Grúň
YouTube video by Oferko0
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November 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Not sure if this Czechoslovakian interpretation of "Don't You Want Me" was what Phil Oakey, Jo Callis et al had in mind when penning their greatest hit..
If anyone still remembers Susan Fassbender's 1981 hit "Twilight Café", here is a Finnish cover thereof.
Jukeboxi
YouTube video by Satu - Topic
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November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If anyone still remembers Susan Fassbender's 1981 hit "Twilight Café", here is a Finnish cover thereof.
A modest top 30 entry for US combo Cock Robin but a HUGE smash in Belgium in the mid-80s, "The Promise You Made" is here reprised in ther native French of Belgian artiste Kate Ryan (known to her mum as Katrien Verbeeck).
Kate Ryan - La Promesse
YouTube video by emimusic
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November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A modest top 30 entry for US combo Cock Robin but a HUGE smash in Belgium in the mid-80s, "The Promise You Made" is here reprised in ther native French of Belgian artiste Kate Ryan (known to her mum as Katrien Verbeeck).
Curiously, the title of this Italian version of Dutch duo Ten Sharp's solitary English-language UK hit "You" translates back as "Us".
Gianni Palazzo Noi
YouTube video by Guillaume King
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November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Curiously, the title of this Italian version of Dutch duo Ten Sharp's solitary English-language UK hit "You" translates back as "Us".
If you've never heard a German-language version of The Eagles' "New Kid In Town" sung by the bloke who did the actual singing bits for both Boney M and Milli Vanilli you're going to hear it now.
Frank Farian--sie war erst 17
YouTube video by Detlef Franke
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November 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you've never heard a German-language version of The Eagles' "New Kid In Town" sung by the bloke who did the actual singing bits for both Boney M and Milli Vanilli you're going to hear it now.
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1979: Soviet Estonian band VITAMIIN’s cover of SWEET’s “Funk It Up (David’s Song)” was banned in USSR due to this scandalous video symbolizing lack of freedom in Soviet Estonia (“Sein on ees” means “the wall in front of you”)
https://redd.it/14dv92f
https://youtu.be/qbvCfYYaT9E
https://redd.it/14dv92f
https://youtu.be/qbvCfYYaT9E
1979: Soviet Estonian band VITAMIIN’s cover of SWEET’s “Funk It Up (David’s Song)” was banned in USSR due to this scandalous video symbolizing lack of freedom in Soviet Estonia (“Sein on ees” means “the wall in front of you”). However, the original copy of TV show filmed in 1979 was saved
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November 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
1979: Soviet Estonian band VITAMIIN’s cover of SWEET’s “Funk It Up (David’s Song)” was banned in USSR due to this scandalous video symbolizing lack of freedom in Soviet Estonia (“Sein on ees” means “the wall in front of you”)
https://redd.it/14dv92f
https://youtu.be/qbvCfYYaT9E
https://redd.it/14dv92f
https://youtu.be/qbvCfYYaT9E
A rare example of a song in French being a big UK hit, Desireless' "Voyage Voyage" was a top ten hit in 1988.
This Japanese idol duo covered it in their native tongue in 1993.
This Japanese idol duo covered it in their native tongue in 1993.
永遠のレディードール -Voyage Voyage- / Wink【Official Music Video】
YouTube video by Wink
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November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A rare example of a song in French being a big UK hit, Desireless' "Voyage Voyage" was a top ten hit in 1988.
This Japanese idol duo covered it in their native tongue in 1993.
This Japanese idol duo covered it in their native tongue in 1993.
This is what Aretha Franklin's "Say A Little Prayer" sounds like in Swedish when sung by a native speaker.
Siw Malmkvist - Sen Drömmer Jag En Stund Dom Dig 1968
YouTube video by Audrey Arno
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November 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is what Aretha Franklin's "Say A Little Prayer" sounds like in Swedish when sung by a native speaker.
If anyone still remembers Mac and Katie Kissoon's 70s hit "Sugar Candy Kisses", here is a Finnish cover thereof.
Hunajaisin huulin - Sugar Candy Kisses
YouTube video by Eija Sinikka - Topic
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November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If anyone still remembers Mac and Katie Kissoon's 70s hit "Sugar Candy Kisses", here is a Finnish cover thereof.
There are at least three totally different Dutch-language covers of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" with different titles and everything.
This is one of them.
This is one of them.
Pieter Embrechts // Dansen in het donker
YouTube video by Pieter Embrechts
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November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
There are at least three totally different Dutch-language covers of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" with different titles and everything.
This is one of them.
This is one of them.
A cover version of Crystal Waters' "Gypsy Woman" but sung in a regional Italian dialect and repurposed to be about fried cod and other fish?
Yes, we've got one of those.
Yes, we've got one of those.
Lalali-lalala pesce fritto e baccalà (Gipsy woman)
YouTube video by Leone di Lernia - Topic
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November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A cover version of Crystal Waters' "Gypsy Woman" but sung in a regional Italian dialect and repurposed to be about fried cod and other fish?
Yes, we've got one of those.
Yes, we've got one of those.
Here's a very laboured Spanish language cover of Go West's "The King Of Wishful Thinking'.
Voy a Sacarte De Mi Mente (King of Wishful Thinking)
YouTube video by Olga Tañon - Topic
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November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Here's a very laboured Spanish language cover of Go West's "The King Of Wishful Thinking'.
Well here's an appalling Spanish-sung rendition of Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" that has to be heard to be believed.
The Wild Boys (Chicos Salvajes)
YouTube video by Isabel Gimenez - Topic
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Well here's an appalling Spanish-sung rendition of Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" that has to be heard to be believed.
A Finnish version of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" exists.
Harvest Moon (Elonkorjuukuu)
YouTube video by Jukka Leppilampi - Topic
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A Finnish version of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" exists.
This is what birthday boy Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" sounds like when performed in German by someone else.
Gerhard Gundermann (Alle oder keiner)
YouTube video by trigger06660
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November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is what birthday boy Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" sounds like when performed in German by someone else.
This Italian version of Neil Young's "Old Man" turns the titular character a "Father".
Whether that is a priest or the singer's (ahem) old man isn't entirely clear.
Whether that is a priest or the singer's (ahem) old man isn't entirely clear.
I Domodossola - L'allegria (1972) 10 - Padre
YouTube video by cinzia laf
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November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This Italian version of Neil Young's "Old Man" turns the titular character a "Father".
Whether that is a priest or the singer's (ahem) old man isn't entirely clear.
Whether that is a priest or the singer's (ahem) old man isn't entirely clear.
Another one for Neil Young's 80th, a Czech cover of "Heart of Gold".
Jiří Schelinger - Pojď
YouTube video by hartstajl
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November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Another one for Neil Young's 80th, a Czech cover of "Heart of Gold".
November 12th is Neil Young's birthday, so here is a Catalan cover of "Cinnamon Girl".
Cinamon Girl
YouTube video by Sau - Topic
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November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
November 12th is Neil Young's birthday, so here is a Catalan cover of "Cinnamon Girl".
Not quite sure what compelled Lene Lovich to record a Japanese version of "I Think We're Alone Now" - the cover Tiffany took to the top of the charts in 1987 - but here we are..
I Think We're Alone Now (Japanese Version)
YouTube video by Lene Lovich - Topic
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Not quite sure what compelled Lene Lovich to record a Japanese version of "I Think We're Alone Now" - the cover Tiffany took to the top of the charts in 1987 - but here we are..
Possibly the second idol group Japanese language cover of Bananarama's "Love In The First Degree" to feature in these hallowed columns.
Enjoy!!
Enjoy!!
第一級恋愛罪
YouTube video by Lemon Angel - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Possibly the second idol group Japanese language cover of Bananarama's "Love In The First Degree" to feature in these hallowed columns.
Enjoy!!
Enjoy!!
Here is a Norwegian-sung cover of Pussycat's very 70s hit "Mississippi".
Mississippi
YouTube video by Inger Lise Rypdal - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Here is a Norwegian-sung cover of Pussycat's very 70s hit "Mississippi".