Eine Insel für zwei explained

Eine Insel für zwei
Type:	single
Artist:	Connie Francis
B-Side:	Das ist zuviel
Released:	1961
Recorded:	A-side: March 15, 1961 B-Side: October 5, 1961 both at Austrophon Studio, Vienna
Genre:	Schlager music
Length:	2:11
Label:	MGM Records 61 050
Producer:	Gerhard Mendelsohn
Chronology:	Connie Francis German
Prev Title:	Einmal komm' ich wieder
Prev Year:	1961
Next Title:	Lili Marleen
Next Year:	1962

Eine Insel für zwei is the sixth German single recorded by U. S. entertainer Connie Francis.

The A-side featured a song written especially in German by Charly Niessen and Joachim Relin,^[1] who would also write Wanda Jackson's chart-topping German language debut single "Santo Domingo" in 1965.^[2]

The song on the B-Side was "Das ist zuviel", a German coverversion of Francis' U. S. Hit "Too Many Rules", which she also recorded in

• French (as Faut pas faire, ça)
• Italian (as Mary Lou, a. k. a. E' Mary Lou)
• Japanese (as Too Many Rules [the original English title was kept])
• Portuguese (as Ordens demais)
• Spanish (as Tanto Control)

Eine Insel für zwei peaked at # 7 of the German charts.^[3]

References

1. Jan Feddersen: Connie Francis, supplement to 5 CD Boxed Set Lass mir die bunten Träume, Bear Family Records BCD 15 786 AH, Hambergen (Germany) 1994
2. Jürgen Brückner: Santo Domingo – Ihre deutschen Aufnahmen, CD booklet, Bear Family Records BCD 15 882 AH
3. Richard Weize: Connie Francis, companion book to 8-LP-Boxed Boxed Set Connie Francis in Deutschland, Bear Family Records BFX 15 305, Hambergen/Vollersode (Germany) 1988