ForeignCoverVersions

YouTube video by mas simo fiorello - ridi

This bizarre Italian-language take on the Scorpions' "Wind of Change" includes more saxophone but NO WHISTLING.

YouTube video by Karel Vágner se svým orchestrem - Topic Vrať se k dětským hrám (Uptown Girl)

This is what Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" sounds like in Czech sung by some other people.

YouTube video by Henri Salvador - Topic Grosse fille pleure pas

In France, The Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry" becomes "FAT Girls Don't Cry" in this translated cover.

YouTube video by Excelsior Recordings Thijs Boontjes - Deze Nacht (All Night Long)

If you've never seen a very pale Dutchman singing Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)" in his native tongue while wandering around an art gallery accompanied by a crowd of brightly-coloured dancers, you're going to see one now.

Oh, hang on... maybe this existed as a Greek folk song before Dick Dale got his paws on it!

If the Black Eyed Peas can put lyrics and their own spin on "Miserlou", this Greek gentleman certainly can.

YouTube video by Sinn Sisamouth - Topic Apart From Love (A Whiter Shade Of Pale)

Say good evening to this vintage Cambodian Khmer retread of Procul Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale".

YouTube video by Jon Flemming Olsen - Topic Nicht nach Haus (Drive)

Here's a curious strummy German-language interpretation of The Cars' Ethiopian famine soundtracking smash "Drive", as performed by a TV personality from around those parts.

YouTube video by Akira Kishii - Topic 世紀の楽団

A propos of nothing at all, here is a Japanese-sung version of the old Irving Berlin jazz standard "Alexander's Ragtime Band".

YouTube video by Li Ji Zhang - Topic Gu Du Lu

A Chinese version of Bobby Brown's "Don't Be Cruel" also exists nonetheless.

YouTube video by Paolo Belli - Topic Tu non fai niente per me (My Baby Just Cares for Me)

Readers of a certain vintage may well remember Nina Simone's take on "My Baby Just Cares For Me" with its Aardman claymation video... so here is an Italian cover of the same song - with a man doing the singing - but with no video at all.

YouTube video by Rubi - Topic Me Mantienes Colgada (You Keep Me Hangin' On)

This is what Diana Ross & The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" sounds like in Argentinean Spanish, sung by a blonde lady with a cat on her shoulder.

YouTube video by Sam Hui - Topic 佛跳牆

This is a Chinese-sung version of "Don't Be Cruel", but the Elvis one not the Bobby Brown one.

YouTube video by Blue Light - Topic Spår av en tår

Originally by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, later covered by The Beat.. here's a Swedish version of "The Tears Of A Clown"

YouTube video by Peđa Radović Seka Kojadinović - Niko Te Neće Zavoleti (Somebody To Love)

A Serbian version of "Somebody To Love", a tune far more familiar in its Jefferson Airplane incarnation.

Aha, right you are!

YouTube video by 이호관 전영 - 작은평화

One for the Eurofans out there: a Korean cover of Nicole's victorious 1982 smash "Ein bißchen Frieden"... or "A Little Peace" as we anglophones knew it.

YouTube video by Leon Lai - Topic 我的灰姑娘

Let's have a Chinese cover of Roxette's "Joyride" with the very first line sung in English but needlessly altered for some reason.

YouTube video by uschance Lill Babs - Leva Livet (Live @ Melosongfestivalen 1964)

Here's a Swedish cover of the old Helen Shapiro / Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin number "It's My Party", with lyrics re-written by ABBA svengali (Sven-gali??) manager bloke Stig Anderson!

YouTube video by Hanss1234 Nimm 3 - Wenn Du willst 1997

The German Spice Girls were a trio called Nimm 3, who performed this translated cover of "Wannabe".

Appetite whetted

Oh wow.

YouTube video by Souda Karel Hála- Toulavej vůz

A Czech version of the none-bettered Roger Miller truckers' anthem "King of the Road", anyone?

YouTube video by Random Something Tell It To My Heart (Japanese Cover) (1988)

Here's a rather lazy Japanese-sung cover of Taylor Dayne's solitary 80s smash "Tell It To My Heart" that keeps the title in English.

YouTube video by Pan Ron - Topic Pnhaeu samnieng

What's that?

You want to listen to a Cambodian cover of Hard Day's Night?

My pleasure ...

youtu.be/4cjWvk9U2uo?...

YouTube video by Herbert Jentsch Benny - Sturm 1983

Never realized that a German language cover of Blancmange's "Waves" existed.

Not by them of course, but by a fellow called Benny.

YouTube video by Alena Bělohoubková ALENA Bělohoubková – CO ZŮSTÁVÁ KDYŽ LÁSKA SKONČÍ ?

Czech version of Cher's "Believe", anyone?

YouTube video by sylviane92 JULIE PIETRI - Je pense à nous

This is what The Pretenders' "I'll Stand By You" sounds like when sung in French.

YouTube video by Aniello Salatiello Don Backy....Mr Tamburino

An Italian cover of Bob Dylan's "Mister Tambourine Man"?

One exists, albeit not sung by Bob Dylan.

YouTube video by Virve Rosti - Topic Puupaukut - Rubber Bullets

Start your weekend right with this Finnish-sung cover of 10CC's "Rubber Bullets", why don't you?