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From: mtc@datagen.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Games Without Frontiers
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Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 11:19:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  1 11:19:08 1983
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(I did not get the original article - I'm responding to the Re: article)

The English version of "Games Without Frontiers" contains NO German.
The opening of the song is in French: "xxxxx sans frontiers"  where 
"xxxxx" is the French word for games (sorry about my inability to
spell French words). When the song first came out, many non-French
speaking folks (like myself) mistook the opening for the English
"She's So Funky, Yeah" which was corrected when the album was released
and we saw the lyric sheet (cheating, right?).

The German version of Gabriel's third album ALSO contains the French
opening - but then the main part of the song is in German. 

By the way, Gabriel's fourth album (marginally titled "Security" - anyone 
know about whether Gabriel intended it to be untitled?) ALSO has a 
German counterpart - ever heard "Shock the Monkey" sung in German? 
I've always wanted to make a dance tape with that version, to mess with
people's minds!

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Mark "mtc" Colan		{allegra, decvax!ittvax, rocky2}!datagen!mtc