Eine Insel für zwei

Eine Insel für zwei is the sixth German single recorded by U. S. entertainer Connie Francis.

"Eine Insel für zwei"
Single by Connie Francis
B-side"Das ist zuviel"
Released1961
RecordedA-side: March 15, 1961
B-Side: October 5, 1961
both at Austrophon Studio, Vienna
GenreSchlager music
Length2:11
LabelMGM Records 61 050
Songwriter(s)Charly Niessen, Joachim Relin
Producer(s)Gerhard Mendelsohn
Connie Francis
German singles chronology
"Einmal komm' ich wieder"
(1961)
"Eine Insel für zwei"
(1961)
"Lili Marleen"
(1962)

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

  1. 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
  2. Jürgen Brückner: Santo Domingo – Ihre deutschen Aufnahmen, CD booklet, Bear Family Records BCD 15 882 AH
  3. 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
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