Eine Insel für zwei is the sixth German single recorded by U. S. entertainer Connie Francis.
Overview The A-side featured a song written especially in German by Charly Niessen and Joachim Relin,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 who would also write Wanda Jackson's chart-topping German language debut single "Santo Domingo" in 1965.Jürgen Brückner: Santo Domingo – Ihre deutschen Aufnahmen, CD booklet, Bear Family Records BCD 15 882 AH
Das ist zuviel 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)
The Japanese version reached No. 1 in Japan. The English version was included in her 1962 album Connie Francis Sings Second Hand Love, and the other versions didn't chart.
Charts Eine Insel für zwei peaked at No. 7 of the German charts 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 and No. 4 on Austrian charts.
YearTitleAUTGER1961"Eine Insel für zwei"47
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