Romeo was a 1961 hit single for
Petula ClarkPetula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
peaking at #3 on the UK chart dated 26 August.
The song was a 1921 composition by
Robert StolzRobert Elisabeth Stolz was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music.- Biography :...
for which
Jimmy KennedyJimmy Kennedy OBE was a songwriter, predominantly a lyricist, putting words to existing music such as "Teddy Bears' Picnic" and "My Prayer", or co-writing with the composers Michael Carr, Wilhelm Grosz and Nat Simon amongst others.Kennedy was born on the Brookmount Road in Omagh, Ireland...
wrote a new lyric. The original featured a German lyric by Arthur Rebner and was known as both "Salome" and "Romeo" to accommodate singers of either gender.
Rebner is sometimes credited as one of the writers of the Petula Clark song.
"Romeo" was also an international success for Clark: remade with a French lyric as "Roméo" it became Clark's first #1 hit in
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
on 20 January 1962 - Clark's next two singles would also reach #1 in France where overall she'd top the charts five times.
"Roméo" was also ranked at #1 on the chart for the French speaking sector of
BelgiumThe Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO...
while the original English version had been a hit (#3) with that country's
DutchDutch is a West Germanic language spoken by over 22 million people as a native language, and over 5 million people as a second language.
"1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language...
speakers.
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Romeo was a 1961 hit single for
Petula ClarkPetula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
peaking at #3 on the UK chart dated 26 August.
The song was a 1921 composition by
Robert StolzRobert Elisabeth Stolz was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music.- Biography :...
for which
Jimmy KennedyJimmy Kennedy OBE was a songwriter, predominantly a lyricist, putting words to existing music such as "Teddy Bears' Picnic" and "My Prayer", or co-writing with the composers Michael Carr, Wilhelm Grosz and Nat Simon amongst others.Kennedy was born on the Brookmount Road in Omagh, Ireland...
wrote a new lyric. The original featured a German lyric by Arthur Rebner and was known as both "Salome" and "Romeo" to accommodate singers of either gender.
Rebner is sometimes credited as one of the writers of the Petula Clark song.
"Romeo" was also an international success for Clark: remade with a French lyric as "Roméo" it became Clark's first #1 hit in
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
on 20 January 1962 - Clark's next two singles would also reach #1 in France where overall she'd top the charts five times.
"Roméo" was also ranked at #1 on the chart for the French speaking sector of
BelgiumThe Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO...
while the original English version had been a hit (#3) with that country's
DutchDutch is a West Germanic language spoken by over 22 million people as a native language, and over 5 million people as a second language.
"1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language...
speakers. "Romeo" also achieved hit status in the
NetherlandsThe Netherlands is a country in Northwestern Europe, constituting the major portion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east...
(#10),
NorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...
(#7) and
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
(#25).