Seven Tears (song)

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"Seven Tears"
Goombay Dance Band Seven Tears single cover.jpg
Single by Goombay Dance Band
from the album Holiday in Paradise
Released1981
Genre Euro disco
Length3:54
Label CBS, Epic
Songwriter(s) Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein, Wolfgang Jass
Producer(s) Jochen Peterson
Goombay Dance Band singles chronology
"Rain"
(1980)
"Seven Tears"
(1981)
"Christmas at Sea"
(1981)

"Seven Tears" is a song by the Goombay Dance Band, released in 1981. It was released as the only single from their third studio album, Holiday in Paradise, and was subsequently featured on the UK-only compilation Seven Tears.

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Written by Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein and Wolfgang Jass, and produced by Jochen Peterson, "Seven Tears" was a major hit across Europe in the winter and spring of 1982. The song spent three weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart, [1] being the fourth time a German act had topped the UK chart, six weeks after Kraftwerk had achieved that feat with "The Model" in 1982 and Boney M with "Rivers Of Babylon" and "Mary's Boy Child" in 1978. [2]

Track listings

7" vinyl single [3]
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Seven Tears"Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein, Wolfgang Jass3:54
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Mama Coco"Uve Schikora3:30
12" vinyl single [4]
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Seven Tears" (Extended Dance Mix)Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein, Wolfgang Jass5:21
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Mama Coco"Uve Schikora3:30

Charts

Cover versions

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