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"Sugar Free" is a song from Australian pop group Wa Wa Nee. The song was released in December 1986 as the third single from their self-titled debut studio album. The song peaked at number 10 on the Australian singles chart, [2] and number 35 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100. [3] The song is featured in the film, Cassandra.
According to etymologist Douglas Harper, the phrase is derived from Yiddish and is of Germanic origin. [4] It is cognate with the German expression o weh, or auweh, combining the German and Dutch exclamation au! meaning "ouch/oh" and the German word Weh, a cognate of the English word woe (as well as the Dutch wee meaning pain).
Since "weh" is the commonly accepted origin, we should just go with that. I'm not saying that the phrase was never used with a nod toward the biblical verse; that seems quite possible. However, I would suggest that attempting to say that there is an explicitly religious connotation to the phrase is speculation.
The pop group Tight Fit made a cover of the song in 1982, reaching number one hit in the UK. Other artists who have recorded various versions of the song include R.E.M., NSYNC, Henri Salvador, Karl Denver, Jimmy Dorsey, Yma Sumac, Noro Morales, Roy Zimmerman, Miriam Makeba, and The Kingston Trio. [5] The song is in the key of F major.
They Call Us Au Go-Go Singers is the only studio album by the group. The album was released in November 1964 on Roulette records, and was released in the UK on Columbia records. [ 6 ] The album features some of the earliest recordings of future Buffalo Springfield members, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, two years before they formed Buffalo ...
The song "Frühling in Paris" features lyrics from the song "Non, je ne regrette rien" by Edith Piaf. The second track, "Ich tu dir weh", is replaced by four seconds of silence on the censored version of the album in Germany. [24] It is marked on the case as "Ich tu dir weh* *Entfernt nach Zensur durch die Behörden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland."
A missing 12-year-old boy has been found dead in Virginia Beach three days after he disappeared while going to a friend's house. An AMBER Alert for Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo was issued early on ...
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