Artist: Joe Jones
Author: Henry Glover/Morris Levy
Label: Roulette
Year: 1961
Chris Montez one year later in Let's Dance used the same intro.
Covers:
Rocky Volcano [as J'Irais n'importe où]
Rivieras [top 5 US]
Chaussettes Noires [as Je voudrais bien dormir]
Ravers [as Tanto Carina (It)]
Noël Delisle & les Kon-Dors [as Au beau pays de Quebec]
Seven Days [as El Sol de California]
Ramones [also covered Let's Dance the same year]
Gyllene Tider [as Tylö Sun; Swedish lyrics: Per Gessle]
Roxette [French band as Natacha]
O.T.H. [as Le Soleil du midi]
Frankie Avalon [in film Back To The Beach]
Peste & Sida [as Sol Da Caparica, beach near Lissabon]
Straitjackets [with Dave Alvin]
Svante Karlsson [as Vitt & Blatt for Swedish soccer team Halmstads BK]
Stereo Total [as Carte postale; fourth French version]
Henry Glover (with Joey Dee) also wrote The Peppermint Twist.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)