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"Oh! What A Kiss" by De Strangers

Oldiesmann

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Oldiesmann @ 2019-02-12 07:36:33 UTC

Anyone know anything about this? It's an adaptation of "Oh Oh What a Kiss", which in turn is a lyricization of "Sobre las olas" (both of which are on site already).


Discogs lists the single and album that this song appeared on, but doesn't have a year for either one. I'm also not sure where to look to find a lyricist for this.


jojo

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jojo @ 2019-02-12 09:36:58 UTC

And the year would be 1995.


http://muziekarchief.be/albumdetails.php?ID=94146


Though the title is a bit different. But the label-number is the same (Strange Surprised)



But the Strangers already covered the song in 1966 as "Zij Zee Tegen Mij".


On this album https://www.discogs.com/De-Strangers-15-Jaar-Strangers/release/4530209


https://www.ultratop.be/nl/album/30e90/De-Strangers-15-jaar-Strangers


http://muziekarchief.be/albumdetails.php?ID=92543


Composed by Al van Dam and N. Warty


https://www.discogs.com/platenkoffer-de-strangers/release/8448436


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Last edit: 2019-02-12 09:42:00 UTC by jojo

Oldiesmann

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Oldiesmann @ 2019-02-12 20:18:34 UTC

Thanks for the info jojo and David Smile


I got the feeling that they had recorded it earlier given that the song was popular in the mid-60s.

Oldiesmann

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Oldiesmann @ 2019-02-12 20:43:56 UTC

Zij Zee Tegen Mij is now on site. Going to add "Oh What A Kiss" as well since it's a completely different song (lyrics are different as well as far as I can tell).

Limbabwe

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Limbabwe @ 2019-02-13 15:32:48 UTC

West Flemish, according to Bastien.

De Strangers used their city's local dialect: Antwerps (or 'Aantwaarps' as the locals say). As it is a Flemish / Dutch dialect the spelling rules of that language need to be used. I've updated the title accordingly...