My 100 Favorite Charted Country Songs: Fraulein
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86950)
United States
October 3, 2024 12:18pm CST
Wow, this is a problem. This is an English language website, and here I have a song with a German title! 
Wow, glad “ Bei Mir Bistu Shein” isn’t on the list! 
Oh, well, the song is in English (so’s this discussion), so we’re good to go. And here we go!
Fraulein - Bobby Helms
In a few days or weeks you’ll start to get sick of Bobby Helms. Why? Bobby Helms had one of the big classic Christmas songs, “Jingle Bell Rock.” (Aside: the problem with Christmas music is that we have an average of 20 new Christmas albums a year, but they’re just re-recordings of the same 20 songs! 
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1957 was good to Bobby Helms. This song was a major country hit, “Jingle Bell Rock” was a major Christmas hit, and “My Special Angel” was a big pop hit. That’s basically his entire career: by 1960 he wasn’t making the top 40 anymore.
Although it’s the Christmas song that gets the airplay anymore, this is my favorite Helms hit….and one of my favorite 1957 hits.
Fraulein
Written by Lawton Williams
Recorded by Bobby Helms
Released as a single, 1957
Peak chart position: #1 (also charted #36 pop)
Today’s rock song: “I Got You”
Walk down by the river:
Wow, glad “ Bei Mir Bistu Shein” isn’t on the list! Oh, well, the song is in English (so’s this discussion), so we’re good to go. And here we go!
Fraulein - Bobby Helms
In a few days or weeks you’ll start to get sick of Bobby Helms. Why? Bobby Helms had one of the big classic Christmas songs, “Jingle Bell Rock.” (Aside: the problem with Christmas music is that we have an average of 20 new Christmas albums a year, but they’re just re-recordings of the same 20 songs! )
1957 was good to Bobby Helms. This song was a major country hit, “Jingle Bell Rock” was a major Christmas hit, and “My Special Angel” was a big pop hit. That’s basically his entire career: by 1960 he wasn’t making the top 40 anymore.
Although it’s the Christmas song that gets the airplay anymore, this is my favorite Helms hit….and one of my favorite 1957 hits.
Fraulein
Written by Lawton Williams
Recorded by Bobby Helms
Released as a single, 1957
Peak chart position: #1 (also charted #36 pop)
Today’s rock song: “I Got You”
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
4 Oct 24
Love the jacket. Have a good weekend.
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@FourWalls (86950)
• United States
10 Oct 24
@porwest — oh, you should have seen Ernie Ashworth’s! His biggest hit was “Talk Back Tremblin’ Lips,” so his jacket had lips on it!
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@FourWalls (86950)
• United States
3 Oct 24
Good thing I’d be on a desert island with these, cause y’all would be throwing coconuts at me if you were there, too!
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@wolfgirl569 (136091)
• Marion, Ohio
3 Oct 24
@FourWalls Is it a tropical island. I can listen to any music for that
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@RasmaSandra (98156)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Oct 24
If he called if Fraulein he should have sung it in German. Another NOPE on this one,
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@FourWalls (86950)
• United States
3 Oct 24
There probably was a German version. There was an answer song, I know that much.
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@FourWalls (86950)
• United States
4 Oct 24
I’ve always loved this. Glad you remember it as well!
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@FourWalls (86950)
• United States
3 Oct 24
Don’t you have a fluffy kitten to hug? 
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@porwest (112928)
• United States
10 Oct 24
@FourWalls Well, at least he had a couple to take to the bank. lol
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