Seventeen year, blond hair (song)

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Seventeen years old, blond hair
Udo Juergens
publication 1965
length 2:22
Genre (s) Bat
text Thomas Hörbiger
music Udo Juergens
album Portrait in music

Seventeen years, blond hair is a song by the Austrian singer Udo Jürgens from 1965 to a text by Thomas Hörbiger . Jürgens produced the song himself. The song, which has been covered repeatedly, is about a man, told from a first-person perspective, who sees a 17-year-old girl in the city center, with whom he falls in love.

The song was released by Vogue Records in Germany in 1965 as a single from his album Portrait in Musik . The song is 2:22 minutes long. In Germany the song reached number 4 and was in the charts for a total of 11 weeks. In Austria it placed 6th and stayed in the charts for 16 weeks.

In the music film of the same name by Franco Montemurro , which was released in Germany in September 1966 , Udo Jürgens sings not only this song, but also the Chanson Merci, Chérie , with which he won the Grand Prix de la Chanson in 1966.

Track list of the single

7 ″ single
  1. Seventeen year old, blond hair (2:22)
  2. Like a rose (2:43)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Udo Jürgens - Seventeen year old, blond hair at Discogs . Accessed October 6, 2019
  2. Udo Jürgens - Seventeen years old, blond hair. In: hitparade.ch. Retrieved October 6, 2019 (German).