"Calcutta" b/w "Last Date" by Lawrence Welk Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1961 on the Australian Kent Music Top 20 Singles chart.Dowell had one more Top 40 hit when the novelty song "Little Red Rented Rowboat" made #23 in America, but he got his own G.I. When it became clear that the Elvis version wasn't going to be released in America, the race was on to record it stateside, and Shelby Singleton, a producer at Mercury Records, got a young performer named Joe Dowell to sing a half-English, half-German version, which shot to #1 upon release. RCA Records had no intention of releasing it in the US, as they feared it would harm his image - in the movie, he sang it to a puppet and it is clearly a novelty, complete with poorly translated lyrics like "If you say goodbye then I know that I would cry, maybe I would die." Elvis was becoming more of a family entertainer and had a huge hit borrowing from an Italian song with " It's Now Or Never," but this one could have done serious damage to his rock cred. Blues, and his version became a #1 hit in the UK in March 1961. Plinka plinka plinka plonk, plinka plinka plonk, OH.This is an English version of the German folk song "Muss I Denn." Elvis Presley sang it in the movie G.I. Plinka plinka plinka plonk, plinka plinka plinka plonk, CB-CB-CBC, CB-CB-CBC, CB-CB-CBC, CB-CBC, OH. Soapy soapy soapy sud, soapy soapy soapy sud, soapy soapy Naggy nag, naggy naggy naggy nag, naggy naggy nag, OH. (everyone) Naggy naggy naggy nag, naggy naggy I'm a good doctor, come from German-land! Yock-von spielen! Meta-me a leader! Soapy sud, soapy soapy soapy sud, soapy soapy sud, OH. (everyone) Soapy soapy soapy sud, soapy soapy I'm a good doctor, come from German-land! Yock-von spielen! Meta-me a TV! Vio vio viola, vio vio viola, vio vio viola, vio viola, Plinka plinka plinka plonk, plinka plinka plonk, OH. (everyone) CB-CB-CBC, CB-CB-CBC, CB-CB-CBC, CB-CBC, I'm a good doctor, come from German-land! Yock-von spielen! Meta-me a radio! Plinka plinka plonk, plinka plinka plinka plonk, plinka plinka plonk, OH. (everyone) Plinka plinka plinka plonk, plinka I'm a good doctor, come from German-land! Yock-von spielen! Meta-me a piano! (everyone) Vio vio viola, vio vio viola, vio vio (Leader sings one line of the verse, everyone repeats.) I'm a good doctor, come from German-land! Yock-von spielen! Meta-me a viola! When the music comes From the Fatherland There will be fun and games (or something like that) Note: The German verse translates roughly as: Other Verses (make up appropriate actions): Leader: Ach ven de musica Deutches Faderlander Ach von spielen All: Ach von spielen Leader: Ich-en-bee-en-viola All: Vio-vio-viola (4 times) (make anĪction as though playing a violin) Zumba, zumba, zumba, za (4 times) (make an action Thanks very much to my friend Christy Stanhope, who lent me the songbookįrom which this is printed! Leader: Ach ven de musica Deutches Faderlander Ach von spielen All: Ach von spielen Leader: Ich-en-bee-en-sumba-za All: Zumba, zumba, zumba, za (4 times) (makeĪn action as though playing a bass fiddle) Here is what I believe might be the original song. (Source: "Campfire Songbook", published by the Boy Scouts Other Verses: piano-la piccolo-la trumpet-la (source: Boy Scout Campfire Songbook, circa 1950 or so) Me find what I think is the oldest (and likely the closest to the original) Version I learned at the bottom of this page. In fact, it turns out that I had a version of this song already on It appears that there are many, many versions of this The German Music Song (Ach Von Der Musica aka The German Doctor)
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