It was the song that launched JD to stardom.
The Germans are folksy, back-to-nature type folks. It’s a folksy, back-to-nature type song. A match made in … WEST VIRGINIA
Dear God, I have not laughed that hard in weeks. Thank you!
I would, but Alice doesn’t live here anymore .
My wife and I laughed the first time we heard this on the radio we heard this on the radio while driving in Germany. It was a mix of the original 70’s song ‘Living Next Door to Alice’ with somebody shouting “Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?” Then, we’d hear everybody at festivals shouting the same thing, little kids included. It was hilarious
No idea why that song was so popular on Germany. I don’t remember it being very big in the US.
This looks similar to love for “Summer of 69” in Nepal.
Is this the right time to share my old band’s version of that song?
http://www.mister-rik.com/mp3/summer_of_69.mp3
(One of the few songs I didn’t sing lead on. I"m doing the terrible high harmony behind my guitarist.)
Supposedly All Night Long is really popular in Iraq.
And who knew those country roads would take you back to…San Juan?!
I can’t say for the rest of the US, but it was always a crowd pleaser when played at the rundown ive bar I used to frequent in West Texas.
It’s funny how things catch on. You might as well ask why an entire generation of Americans (and quite a lot of the rest of the world) went mad for a pop song sung in Romanian.
(Don’t recognize it? Give the video about 45-50 seconds. You will. Oh yes you will.)
Moldovan. Hope they made decent money out of it.
Oops, apparently they did sing it in Romanian despite being Moldovan.
If it doesn’t, it certainly should. And I am deeply disappointed at the camera usage there. TERRIBLE angles. 
Where in the world did you get that idea?
Because it’s fun to yell “Fuck”?
It wouldn’t be allowed on the radio here. Pity.
The current Gangnam mania is another case in point.
The utter lack of proof suggests that you’re correct.
How else could there be so little evidence as to its veracity unless there was a concerted plot to make it appear to be absurd ?
I find it frightening myself, I 'm even regretting that I’m going to post this, as it will probably mean me being put under surveillance at the very least, assasinated, or slandered as a madman otherwise.
You’re a brave man EC , I’ll try not to let you down .
If WE don’t stand up to THEM, then who will ?
I’d never heard of them before, but after 15 minutes on youtube all I have to say is how on earth could there be any shame in a klezmer version of I Will Survive? That was pure distilled awesome.
Here is Slovenian karaoke version of Country Roads, if anyone is interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWeg1XKulj0
Listening now to the Ajax (Amsterdam) v Manchester City Champions league soccer match, and it sounded like the Toots and the Maytals version (no, not that type of ‘version’, reggae afficianados) was being played and sung along to by, presumably, the home fans. That was just before the end of half time…
Two words: David Hasselhoff
There is just no accounting for taste. When I was stationed there in the late '60’s the most popular song on the local jukebox was “I Never promised You a Rose Garden.”
Only because Toots and the Maytals are awesome. It’s kind of hard to get a stadium full of soccer fans to sing Pressure Dropthough.