Wireless holiday music which never surfaced in the UK...

[perplexed]

Inspired by @GrumpyGregry 's 'Tove Lo' thread, how about a thread of random songs you heard abroad on the wireless but never heard on Blighty radio...

An example of one played relentlessly on French radio a couple of years or so ago...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZRKVXmBYxw

 

[jefmcg]

Wow. Everyone I knew who calls radio "the wireless" is over 80. Wireless means wifi network to me, and I am over 50.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Last year in Rhodes it was Koukou Move by Sacha Lopez that the kids loved dancing to. Twice a night at least, guaranteed:

View: https://youtu.be/h-sidhifUw8

 

[Fnaar]

This was er... big in Spain about 30 years ago.
While no doubt Sabrina has "gone south" in the intervening years, I'm not sure if this hit ever came north.

 

[ianrauk]

This was er... big in Spain about 30 years ago.
While no doubt Sabrina has "gone south" in the intervening years, I'm not sure if this hit ever came north.

It was a huge hit in the UK at the time too. Reaching #3 (in the days when #1 singles had to sell tens of thousands.)

 

[NorthernDave]

This was er... big in Spain about 30 years ago.
While no doubt Sabrina has "gone south" in the intervening years, I'm not sure if this hit ever came north.

Yes, Sabrina had a couple of big hits in the UK - this was definitely on TOTP back in the day and almost certainly resulted in letters to Points of View from a tea-splutterer in Tunbridge Wells...

 

[Dave 123]

This was er... big in Spain about 30 years ago.
While no doubt Sabrina has "gone south" in the intervening years, I'm not sure if this hit ever came north.

Oh, it went North... as did a certain appendage of mine!

 

[Glow worm]

Modern Talking has to be up there with one of the top European 80s bands never to have made it over here. Every now and then I pick up the French/ Dutch radio when out on the E. Anglian coast and hear them played still. A nice blast from the past. Heard this one today as it happens on FM in Clacton on Sea from a Belgian station (Joe FM 104.1)

 

[jefmcg]

my second off topic post to this thread .....

I listen to a lot of USAsian podcasts. In the US (where the word for weeks off work is "vacation") they use holiday according to it's origin: "holy day". So if they want a non-sectarian way to refer Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, New Year, Saturnalia etc etc they call it "holiday". So I just took "holiday music" in the thread title as a euphemism for Christmas, and wondered why people were posting pool side videos.

 

[MarkF]

Mindless Spanish radio pop, they latch on to one song a summer and play it to death, I love it.

2015


2001

 

[Glow worm]

Austrian band - Alphaville.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TcDHrkQYg


I think some Brits had a go at the song a few years later, and managed quite impressively to completely destroy it- top work!
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[GrumpyGregry]

I'd love to post the song we constantly heard on earthquake this summer but as I don't speak Italian I've no idea what it is called or what the artists name is.

 

[jefmcg]

I'd love to post the song we constantly heard on earthquake this summer but as I don't speak Italian I've no idea what it is called or what the artists name is.

https://www.shazam.com/

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Another one that seems to have had unending popularity on mainland Europe for a decade or more is this Kate Ryan cover of Mylene Farmer's Désenchantée. You often hear it still in Belgium and France:

View: https://youtu.be/tmPws7eXcVk

 

[NorthernDave]

Austrian band - Alphaville.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TcDHrkQYg


I think some Brits had a go at the song a few years later, and managed quite impressively to completely destroy it- top work!
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Alphaville? Weren't they Big in Japan?