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"Fraulein" is a 1957 song written by Lawton Williams and sung by Bobby Helms. Released by Decca Records that year, "Fraulein" was Helms's debut single on the U.S. country chart, reaching #1 for four weeks and staying on chart for 52 weeks, the sixth longest song in country music history to spend over 50 weeks on the country singles chart.
Lawton Williams (July 24, 1922 – July 27, 2007) was an American country music singer and songwriter.. Williams taught himself to play guitar as a teenager but made no steps towards a musical career until, while serving in World War II, he met Floyd Tillman who acted as a mentor to him. [1]
By the 1960s, this came to be seen as patronising by proponents of feminism, partly because there is no equivalent male diminutive, and during the 1970s and 1980s, the term Fräulein became nearly taboo in urban and official settings, while it remained an unmarked standard in many rural areas. It is seen as sexist by modern feminists.
Fräulein is the German language honorific previously in common use for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English.. Fräulein may also refer to: "Fraulein" (song), a 1957 song
The original version of Helms charted at No. 13 on Billboard ' s Most Played C&W by Jockeys chart, a predecessor to the Hot Country Songs chart. It also crossed to the pop charts, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart, and at No. 11 on Cashbox magazine's Top 60 on the week ending January 11, 1958.
Miguel Ángel Carreño Schmelter (born 20 October 1943, in Madrid), better known as Micky, is a Spanish singer.. He began his music career in 1962 leading the band Micky y Los Tonys, which brought out 30 singles (including hits like "No sé nadar") and 5 albums.
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In the United Kingdom, a version recorded by Malcolm Vaughan spent 14 weeks on the charts, peaking at number three in 1957. [10]The song was revived in 1968 by the Vogues, with their version reaching number seven on the Hot 100 chart [11] and faring even better on the Easy Listening chart, where it spent two weeks at number one in October 1968.