The second non-English song to reach #1 on the Hot 100 was Kyu Sakamoto’s ‘Sukiyaki,’ which I wrote about this past weekend. That was in June of 1963, five years after ‘Volare.’
It was later the same year that Soeur Sourire, also known as The Singing Nun, took the next non-English song to #1. Though Sourire was Belgian, she wrote and performed her chart-topping hit ‘Dominque’ in French.
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