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Calcutta (song)

"Calcutta"
Single by Lawrence Welk
from the album Calcutta!
B-side"My Grandfather's Clock"
ReleasedDecember 1960[1]
GenreEasy listening[2]
Length2:13
LabelDot
Songwriter(s)Heino Gaze
Producer(s)Artie Ripp
Lawrence Welk singles chronology
"Last Date"
(1960)
"Calcutta"
(1960)
"Theme From My Three Sons"
(1961)

"Calcutta" is a German pop song. An instrumental version by American bandleader and TV host Lawrence Welk on the 1961 Dot Records album Calcutta! was a Number One song in the United States, and the most successful hit of Welk's career.

  1. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002
  2. ^ Breihan, Tom (October 30, 2018). "The Number Ones: Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Blue"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 14, 2023. For years — for decades, even — [easy listening] music sold in huge numbers, to the point where Lawrence Welk's "Calcutta" blocked the Miracles' "Shop Around" from the #1 spot.

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