DU DU DU

Created on 20/05/2003
Latest update on 06/10/2023

Artist: Angèle Durand
Author: Lotar Olias/Walter Rothenburg
Label: Electrola
Year: 1952

With Bela Sanders' orchestra. Real name: Angèle De Geest. Daughter of an Antwerp diamond dealer who in 1950 sang for six weeks with Duke Ellington's orchestra during a European tour. Big in Germany with hits in '58 (Mélodie d'Amour and Hula Hoop). Married Dutch quizmaster Lou van Burg.

Covers:

1952:

Nora Brockstedt

1953:

Ames Brothers [as You You You n°1 US]

1953:

Stargazers [idem]

1963:

Skeeter Davis [idem]

Olias & Rothenburg also wrote Junge komm bald wieder (Freddy - '63).

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