99 Red Balloons

[Bexxie82]

I've always thought Blondie sang the song 99 Red Balloons, but on a music channel today the video was on, and it was sung by someone else. Can anyone tell me if Blondie have ever sung it?

[robertson]

No. It was a hit for the German singer Nena who was very attractive except for her hairy arm-pits

[robbo82]

Blondie did do a version of it, although, in my opinion, the best cover was by Goldfinger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seTX4itHhqI

[Suzyboo]

robbo82, when or where did blondie do a version of it?

[mushroom25]

a rather humourous variation can be found at http://www.snapsandbytes.co.uk/99deadbaboons.m p3

[kempie]

I can find no definitive evidence of Blondie having ever released a version of "99 Red Ballons" outside of Lyric websites which also wrongly credit them with a version of the Divinyls' track "I Touch Myself".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(band)#Di scography

[Dudley]

It would be hard to beat the Nena version. A classic 'One Hit Wonder'.

[jenstar]

Blondie never covered it, ever. And Nena (or Gabrielle Kerner) wasn't even blonde!

[pandy]

I have a version of bjork singing it which i downloaded off the internet