Song Thats Mostly Sung in Inglish but Then Switches to Japanee Every Now and Again
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Maria
"Happy Altogether".
Though a Beatles song or 2 volition be in the top ten.
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SimondB
Merry Christmas - Slade
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yabits
"Happy Birthday" seems similar the right pick if considering just the melody, but nigh countries have replaced the English with local languages.
I tried to accept the tack of an English-speaking artist whose songs would be very popular among the masses in Latin America, Africa, likewise as in big parts of Asia. That artist just might be Bob Marley. The song might be a toss-up between One Love and Iii Little Birds. (Of grade, his songs are very popular in Europe, Australia and N America also.)
Fifty years agone, it might take been a Stephen Foster song, like Oh Susannah.
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sfjp330
In the U.S. "The Stars Spangled Banner" is performed in almost of the major sporting events or political events. Likewise, Olympics or international competiton when U.S. athletes are involved.
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zichi
"Like a Rolling Rock" Dylan " or "Imagine" Lennon
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Onniyama
Happy Altogether or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star probably. sfjp330. Ah. The English linguistic communication does extend outside the U.S. I hope you lot know.
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nath
Happy Birthday maybe. Or some Disney Xmas number (Rudolf?)
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USNinJapan2
Wouldn't information technology be the alphabet song sung to the same tune as 'Twinkle Twinkle Piddling Star"? I mean, chances are anyone who learned English, native or otherwise, learned this song when learning the alphabet...
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Virtuoso
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the best-selling single record of all time (over l million copies sold) is Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of "White Christmas."
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dcog9065
Some Chinese song or "Happy Birthday".
I heard that "Amazing Grace" is the most played song in the world, though non sure whether it's also the about famous.
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Steven C. Schulz
"God Save the Queen."
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ReformedBasher
American Pie, Let It Exist if we're talking "recent"
Ue wo muite arukou (Sukiyaki Song) for Nippon.
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bgaudry
La Bamba.
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smithinjapan
The Alphabet Song (sung to the same melody as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, not like information technology is here, though all the same probably the best known English song here every bit well still).
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Jimizo
@Yabits Nice thought. I heard that many Iraqis and others in middle-eastern countries may not be fluent in English language only tin sing Lionel Ritchie's songs perfectly. I also heard 'O-bla-di-o-bla-da' and 'Don't Laissez passer Me By' are the favourites from the Beatles songbook in that office of the world. I can't imagine Lennon'south lyric 'Imagine at that place'south no sky' would go down well in certain countries.
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budgie
Probably 'Happy Birthday' followed by 'yesterday'.
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Farmboy
Yes, I approximate Happy Birthday, also. Here's a fleck of trivia from Wikipedia virtually it:
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SumoBob
Head, shoulders, knees and toes.
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nath
Interestingly all the suggestions and so far are more often than not from an English speaking audition and background. Considering they are a minority globally I would wait other answers.
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zichi
Did you miss the title of the post?
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Cos
Yes, Happy B-solar day, Jingle Bells, White Xmas... I've heard them in some Asian mountains where they speak dialects only understood in that valley. Usually that's all that they know from the exterior earth. The kids came to sing these tunes in some adapted version. I sing them dorsum a flake of the Marseillaise as I'k so nationalist...or not at all. It'south user-friendly as they often know it also (and many imagine it's lovely love song), just it's not an English language song. Apparently the "famous ones" are very tricky. At that place was a adult female that went to live in remote a Amazonian tribe, married a guy there, and they had lived isolated. One day, she got a radio, not long before Christmas, then she could make them listen for the first time in their lives. They were fascinated by the device. After a few days, that was getting sometime as they didn't understand and the music was not their genre, then she was listening on her own, but whenever they'd hear the first notes of "Happy Altogether..." or certain Christmas carols, they'd all make a intermission in their activities to sing and dance. Over the not so isolated tribes, I'm certain they all know irritating pop songs that laissez passer on radios forever, like the biggest hits from Abba, Queen, Michael Jackson, even Elvis...
They probably know the totality of the hits of the 70's to ninety'south equally their own popular singers did versions in various languages.
Honestly : Never heard.
No. Only your song of death, more... you call it "Taps" ?
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Maria
@Cos:
For this line, I salute you! (and I don't mean the saxon salute)
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ambrosia
I dubiousness most people know the words to Taps or at to the lowest degree not across the first few lines. But the "song of death" as you put it, is also played, though not always sung, at dusk and at Male child Watch, Girl Lookout man and Girl Guide meetings and camps.
As for the ABC song, there is a French version too and the rhythm is quite similar to the English i people are talking nearly. It's merely what most kids larn at a young age when they're getting acquainted with the alphabet and bones reading. I've had more than one Japanese kid spontaneously flare-up out with the ABC song when encountering me on a train or on the street. It always very beautiful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?5=lWNWobUPAtM
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nath
In Japan, 'The Carpenters' still seem pretty popular. "Aimu on za toppo ob za warudo, rooking, downward on kleashun...."
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hoserfella
It''south ME - considering anybody hither knows English is the planet's universal linguistic communication, "they" are correct to propose English songs. Stop pontificating and admit "sukiyaki" and Edith Piaf just don't compete.
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zichi
English is the third-most-mutual native linguistic communication in the earth, subsequently Mandarin Chinese and spoken in 124 countries by 900,000,000 people.
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Cos
They don't need to understand anything. Lyrics can be translated or just omitted. The question is most English songs.
That sounds translated, not actually the fashion of French comptines. As a kid, I learned the gestures matching Blastoff Bravo Charly ... Yes, that was Charly for united states of america. There was no song. Only that can very pop in one region, even one country or two, unknown in some other identify. My cousins from the South don't know the vocal of Saint-Nicolas, but in my town, you'd hear information technology not-cease during a whole calendar month every year. And then sometimes y'all remember the whole world knows it... Like that ice skater that though they all knew 'Lucky Luke' over the world.
Merely the melody. It's identified, well maybe not by younger generations. Like "Auld lang syne".
Merely yous know her, weirdly. You must be a scholar of French culture. And near people recognize : ",,,,,my mode... my way...", which is but a version of "Comme d'habitude". Or "the girl from Ipanema" that was a "garota" originally.
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Magnet
The Alphabet vocal. "A, B, C, D..." yous know the rest.
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JoiceRojo
Anything from Frank Sinatra even though I've never been a fan or Elvis... then I'd say "Fly me to the moon" or "Tin can't assist falling in beloved"
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ojiiu812badboy
I lost centre in San Francisco♪
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Serrano
"Girls but desire to accept fun"
Oh girls simply want to accept...
That'south all they really waaaaaaaaant
Some funnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
When the working day is washed
Girls - they desire to have fun
Oh girls but desire to have fun
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FizzBit
99 bottles of beer on the wall?
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Tom Thompson
gangam style
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ambrosia
1) This is an English language-language website then presumably the people reading and posting on it know English language.
2) The question is: What do you think is the well-nigh famous song in the English language?
3) If the question offends you that much go to a French, Spanish, Swahili, Cantonese, Navaho, Tagalog, etc. site and answer it there as regards one of those languages.
4) Seriously, learn to read more than carefully and selection your battles better.
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Maria
What English language-language song, in all its parts, should be fabricated compulsory learning in all places of education, and part of the British citizenship examination?
Maverick Rhapsody.
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SquidBert
Definitely http://www.youtube.com/sentry?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
The net has fabricated certain of that.
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Serrano
Jump!
I get upward, and nothing gets me down
Yous got it tough... I've seen the toughest around
And I know, baby, just how you lot feel
Y'all've got to roll, ol' ol' with punches to go to what'southward real
Oh tin can't you come across me standing here, I've got my back to the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen
Oh tin can't you see what I meannnnnnnn?
I might equally well jump. Bound!
Go ahead, 'n jump. Jump!
I might also jump. Jump!
Go ahead, 'n jump. Jump!
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nightvision
"Happy Birthday to You", hands down.
Fifty-fifty with translations, about people know the Engish lyrics.
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