At times, I don’t understand how certain songs became hits in other countries. A throwback to vaudeville was #1 in Britain this week for Esther and Abi Ofarim, who could be called the Hebrew version of Sonny and Cher. He was Israeli and she was of Syrian-Jewish descent, and they had a fair amount of success across Europe. Like Sonny and Cher, they eventually got divorced. In a few weeks this reached #68 on our charts. Co-written by “The Smothers Brothers Show” writer Mason Williams, who would soon have a Top 5 record here with “Classical Gas.”
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