| "Eine Insel für zwei" | ||||
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| Single by Connie Francis | ||||
| B-side | "Das ist zuviel" | |||
| Released | 1961 | |||
| Recorded | A-side: March 15, 1961 B-Side: October 5, 1961 both at Austrophon Studio, Vienna | |||
| Genre | Schlager music | |||
| Length | 2:11 | |||
| Label | MGM Records 61 050 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Charly Niessen, Joachim Relin | |||
| Producer(s) | Gerhard Mendelsohn | |||
| Connie Francis German singles chronology | ||||
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Eine Insel für zwei is the sixth German single recorded by U. S. entertainer Connie Francis.
The A-side featured a song written especially in German by Charly Niessen and Joachim Relin, [1] who would also write Wanda Jackson's chart-topping German language debut single "Santo Domingo" in 1965. [2]
The song on the B-Side was "Das ist zuviel", a German coverversion of Francis' U. S. Hit "Too Many Rules", which she also recorded in
- French (as Faut pas faire, ça)
- Italian (as Mary Lou, a. k. a. E' Mary Lou)
- Japanese (as Too Many Rules [the original English title was kept])
- Portuguese (as Ordens demais)
- Spanish (as Tanto Control)
Eine Insel für zwei peaked at # 7 of the German charts. [3]
References
- ^ Jan Feddersen: Connie Francis, supplement to 5 CD Boxed Set Lass mir die bunten Träume, Bear Family Records BCD 15 786 AH, Hambergen (Germany) 1994
- ^ Jürgen Brückner: Santo Domingo – Ihre deutschen Aufnahmen, CD booklet, Bear Family Records BCD 15 882 AH
- ^ Richard Weize: Connie Francis, companion book to 8-LP-Boxed Boxed Set Connie Francis in Deutschland, Bear Family Records BFX 15 305, Hambergen/Vollersode (Germany) 1988