Covers sung in a different language

I always enjoy these for some reason.

Inspired by The Cambodian Space Project's very good cover of Iggy Pop's The Passenger which showed up on my spotify discovery playlist this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu4sa9gHS6k

I'm sure there are countless great examples of this, was kind of surprised that I couldn't find a thread about it

Gypsy Kings - Hotel California

http://youtu.be/TPmYg-QbWbk

god i hate these non-embedding links

http://youtube.com/TPmYg-QbWbk

http://www.youtube.com/TPmYg-QbWbk

argh i give up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFo5_aTx0dw

classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hHznB-_Gbs

Roisin Murphy - Mi Senti

EP in which Roisin sings italian classics - described the studio process as a tearjerker, the difficulty of learning the language as an irish speaker

Mondo Cane - Mondo Cane - Mike Patton's italian ballads/opera cover album, one of the best records he did recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmCSOpPzZc

^ really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVgF_DoNFcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0HPj3AJGg

Keiji Haino's "covers band," Aihiyo, taking apart the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" for 15+ minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjGukiqn_II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q7w7gk1JhQ

that's the original language though

Truth! I meant to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y323GrCsN_Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8wHwgNcB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pevEW7xdWQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K1vJ0r0ax0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NcL3K65fRU

When I was a child we had a record of Johnny Hallyday singing Da Doo Run Run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXYfxw5c5Ic

I don't think it was this recording. In my memory the record goes "Oui, oui, oui," which is very funny if you're a 7-year-old American boy.

i like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSFUfIcSb04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2j9Ps_bha4

Geeta's blog turned me on to Salma and Sabina's amazing Abba covers years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH6eOCQJGhs

Re:Jambalaya, this version is pretty great, too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjbpNhPPag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmPJGUcpsno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSYS7cPc3nE

Does Frank Sinatra My Way count or was the song rewritten along the way?

I'd heard that David Bowie had a new set of English lyrics for the French song Comme d'habitude before Paul Anka came though with the now much better known ones. But wasn't sure to what extent Anka had translated the French song or just taken the main form and constructed something new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_5V62wxnWY

Here's Rebekah del Rio performing Llorando, the song she also did in Mulholland Drive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elDYQFD19RY

And this is my favorite Eagles cover of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HpmbVw7soQ

Mo' Plen Bacharach is a pretty amazing compilation of Bacharach songs in Italian

lol @pplains' eagles cover, that's pretty nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9NQlhId3ow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQm_8uoljWM

Clinic (1979) with a faithful, but nice, cover of Chris Spedding’s great Video Life:

http://youtu.be/xuO2eVRRLZI

I have probably hundreds of these but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

For some reason i went down a rabbit hole of Korean-language covers of the Soviet rock group Kino a few weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cQ8utxtzSk&list=RD8cQ8utxtzSk&index=1

https://youtu.be/8cQ8utxtzSk

i always liked both of these. moving from french-to-english

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qwEzk0FK4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-3_Xtqd4wk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHYUUSlU2xY

^

Nicoletta turning Can't Give You Anything (But My Love) into the Frenchest thing imaginable.

This one is pretty terrible but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLwM9r20HpU

I've always enjoyed this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io-snhxPgoM

taking revolution rock from roots to full-blown ska

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUo4P4GvmIs

Does this count lol?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s55WC-qkQa4

...but I'm sure this does:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQKyMZ8gsPI

Both of these are pretty weak compared to the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfFDTPPlaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GchzuRqFpY

I've always thought it was pretty strange that more bands didn't do what Amen Corner did with (If Paradise) Is Half As Nice and cover big European hits that never really took off in the UK / US.

This cover of "Call Your Girlfriend" was actually a huge hit here in Québec, staying 11 weeks at #1 and winning song of the year in 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIfLIDJVhos

https://youtu.be/Mbh92VDmKwY

<3 Puffy’s cover of Kylie Minogue’s Turn It Into Love.

Gillian Hills - Rentre Sans Moi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvfQq5wkCGU

(cover of The Zombies' "Leave Me Be")

Another one from Nina Simone (and one of my all-time favorites of hers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuFMdHr2Z2U

that hindi abba song is great!

The Abba in Hindi ep is great. I've got a foreign language reworking of Video Killed The Radio Star somewhere that's amazing but I can't find it or even remember the title or what language it was in. (I want to say Hindi too but I I've got a real suspicion it's African)

This whole EP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10xMpeOT74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE1QsPpF0ZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfuNhIyoLLg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZPtnuPKyu4

charanga 76 - no nos pararán (ain't no stopping us now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP7IBtiySYM

No youtube but please click and listen to their cover of "A Forest." It's SO GOOD.

https://ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/album/eyio

here's a polish language cover of bill withers' "use me".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQhC3RPtLU

Re: Aldo, I'm guessing you're talking about this track?? The whole movie and soundtrack are great but this one definitely bites the Buggles pretty hard at points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vylXQbEULQ

Yes! Thank you!

I went through multiple combinations of owa owa but would never have thought of spelling it that way.