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- From: ehrhart@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jeffrey Ehrhart)
- Subject: Re: help - who sings this song
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.225825.15778@rchland.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:58:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.182719.19426@wam.umd.edu>, zodiac@next02csc.wam.umd.edu (Ken Lambert) writes:
- |> > Yes, "Der Kommissar" is correct. "Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?"
- |> > The original was done by a German band named Falco. A more up-beat
- |> > cover (and more popular in the US) was done by the group After The Fire.
- |>
- |> Wasn't falco in After the Fire??? I have the 45 and I thought Falco was
- |> singing...
- Nope, I remember seeing both videos on MTV way back when. Falco did not
- appear in the After the Fire version. I thought the Falco version was
- one of the funniest videos I first saw. Falco, with shades and slicked
- back hair, is running in place while images of police cars appear behide
- him. So cheesy...so hilarious.....
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- Jeff Ehrhart
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