- I Will Follow Him
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Name = I Will Follow Him
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Artist = Little Peggy March
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B-side = "Wind Up Doll"
Released =1963
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Genre = Rock, Pop
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Label =RCA Victor
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* #1 Pop
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Misc ="I Will Follow Him" is a song recorded by Little Peggy March.It is a translation of the
French language tune "Chariot" recorded a year earlier byPetula Clark , which hit #1 inFrance and #8 inBelgium and earned Clark a gold record [http://www.petulaclark.net/chartsfrench.html] . (Clark's Italian and German recordings of the song also were major hits.)March's English version, backed with "Wind Up Doll", was released by
RCA Victor and hit #1 on theBillboard Hot 100 onApril 27 ,1963 , making 15-year-old March the youngest female artist to have a US chart-topping single.The song was featured in the 1992 movie "
Sister Act ". Adisco arrangement of the song was recorded byClaudja Barry . Moreover,José Hoebee , a Dutch pop singer, recorded a cover version of this standard which reached the first position on the Dutch [cite web |url=http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=44685/chartid=6152 |title=De Nederlandse Top 40, week 26, 1982 |accessdate=2008-02-18] and Belgian singles charts in 1982.In
1982 , Norwegian comedy trio KLM made a popularremake of thissong called "Torsken kommer " ("Here comes the cod fish" in English).References
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