# Topic Playlist! (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 3, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647 "2019-09-03T22:39:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 311
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/6201 "2020-05-04T00:24:09Z")
Sad Country Songs 1. Whisky Lullaby - Alison Krauss 2. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 3. Beaucoups of Blues - Ringo Starr 4. Can’t You See - Waylon Jennings 5. Our Town - Iris Dement 6. The Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/6202 "2020-05-04T01:23:31Z")
Sad Country Songs 1. Whisky Lullaby - Alison Krauss 2. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 3. Beaucoups of Blues - Ringo Starr 4. Can’t You See - Waylon Jennings 5. Our Town - Iris Dement 6. The Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell 7. You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma - Lefty Frizzel and Shelley West ---
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Sad Country Songs 1. Whisky Lullaby - Alison Krauss 2. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 3. Beaucoups of Blues - Ringo Starr 4. Can’t You See - Waylon Jennings 5. Our Town - Iris Dement 6. The Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell 7. You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma - Lefty Frizzel and Shelley West 8. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/6204 "2020-05-04T15:20:25Z")
Sad Country Songs 1. Whisky Lullaby - Alison Krauss 2. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 3. Beaucoups of Blues - Ringo Starr 4. Can’t You See - Waylon Jennings 5. Our Town - Iris Dement 6. The Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell 7. You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma - Lefty Frizzel and Shelley West 8. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones 9. If You’re Reading This - Tim McGraw ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/6205 "2020-05-04T22:11:04Z")
Sad Country Songs 1. Whisky Lullaby - Alison Krauss 2. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 3. Beaucoups of Blues - Ringo Starr 4. Can’t You See - Waylon Jennings 5. Our Town - Iris Dement 6. The Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell 7. You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma - Lefty Frizzel and Shelley West 8. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones 9. If You’re Reading This - Tim McGraw 10. Travelin’ Soldier - The Dixie Chicks Pass. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/6206 "2020-05-05T01:25:31Z")
Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki – Kyu Sakamoto – Japanese ---
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Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki – Kyu Sakamoto – Japanese 2. Eres Tu - Mocedades - Spanish ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/6208 "2020-05-05T03:48:14Z")
Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto - Japanese 2. Eres Tu - Mocedades - Spanish 3. Dominique - French https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique ---
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Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto - Japanese 2. Eres Tu - Mocedades - Spanish 3. Dominique - French 4. La Bamba - Spanish ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/6210 "2020-05-05T09:32:36Z")
Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto - Japanese 2. Eres Tu - Mocedades - Spanish 3. Dominique - French 4. La Bamba - Spanish 5. Nel Blu di Pinto di Blu - Domenico Modugno - Italian ---
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Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto - Japanese 2. Eres Tu - Mocedades - Spanish 3. Dominique - French 4. La Bamba - Spanish 5. Nel Blu di Pinto di Blu - Domenico Modugno - Italian 6. 99 Luftballons - German ---
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Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto - Japanese 2. Eres Tu - Mocedades - Spanish 3. Dominique - French 4. La Bamba - Spanish 5. Nel Blu di Pinto di Blu - Domenico Modugno - Italian 6. 99 Luftballons - German 7. Macarena - Los Del Rio ---
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The “entirely” part makes this pretty hard. Like, there’s a bunch of Korean artists charting, like BTS or Psy, but all of them have English portions or at least one English word somewhere. Californian band The Sandpipers made a very popular cover of Cuban standard Guantanamera in the sixties… but they had to add a spoken word section in English. Gotta be honest, I think that this is it. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/6214 "2020-05-06T01:47:05Z")
Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto - Japanese 2. Eres Tu - Mocedades - Spanish 3. Dominique - French 4. La Bamba - Spanish 5. Nel Blu di Pinto di Blu - Domenico Modugno - Italian 6. 99 Luftballons - German 7. Macarena - Los Del Rio 8. Morgen - Ivo Robic - German ---
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Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto - Japanese 2. Eres Tu - Mocedades - Spanish 3. Dominique - French 4. La Bamba - Spanish 5. Nel Blu di Pinto di Blu - Domenico Modugno - Italian 6. 99 Luftballons - German 7. Macarena - Los Del Rio 8. Morgen - Ivo Robic - German 9. Der Kommissar - Falco - German If we can stretch the parameters to include specialized charts, then “Der Kommissar” managed to hit number 10 on the US Billboard Disco Top 80. ---
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Songs that made US Top Ten sung entirely in a foreign language 1. Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto - Japanese 2. Eres Tu - Mocedades - Spanish 3. Dominique - French 4. La Bamba - Spanish 5. Nel Blu di Pinto di Blu - Domenico Modugno - Italian 6. 99 Luftballons - German 7. Macarena - Los Del Rio 8. Morgen - Ivo Robic - German 9. Der Kommissar - Falco - German 10. The Ketchup Song - Las Ketchup - Spanish Songs of the Summer 11. Summertime - Billie Holiday ---
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Songs of the Summer 1. Summertime - Billie Holiday 2. Summer '68 - Pink Floyd ---
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Songs of the Summer 1. Summertime - Billie Holiday 2. Summer '68 - Pink Floyd 3. Summertime Blues - Alan Jackson ---
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Songs of the Summer 1. Summertime - Billie Holiday 2. Summer '68 - Pink Floyd 3. Summertime Blues - Alan Jackson 4. [It Must Be Summer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHgfjqzPbB0) - Fountains of Wayne ---
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