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Bexxie82 | 17:31 Wed 01st Nov 2006 | Music
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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?
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No. It was a hit for the German singer Nena who was very attractive except for her hairy arm-pits
Blondie did do a version of it, although, in my opinion, the best cover was by Goldfinger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seTX4itHhqI
robbo82, when or where did blondie do a version of it?
a rather humourous variation can be found at http://www.snapsandbytes.co.uk/99deadbaboons.m p3
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
It would be hard to beat the Nena version. A classic 'One Hit Wonder'.
Blondie never covered it, ever. And Nena (or Gabrielle Kerner) wasn't even blonde!
I have a version of bjork singing it which i downloaded off the internet

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