Never forget that the most important is that you feel comfortable and pretty in your swimsuit. Our swimsuits can be vectors of self-confidence...be wild and young in your Banana Moon bathing suit! The song was released on Carpet Records, a subsidiary of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group. Lloyd Webber later admitted that he had produced the song because his wife had bet him that as a composer of musical theatre, he would not be able to make a pop song that was a big hit. [37] The band name "Bombalurina" was taken from the name of one of the characters in Lloyd Webber's musical Cats. [34] In 2021, the German pirate folk metal band, Storm Seeker, covered "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Strand-Bikini" in German on their second studio album. [70] The singing character Gummibär recorded original English, [65] [66] Spanish [67] and French versions. [68]

Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (8thed.). Billboard Publications. p.297. ISBN 978-0-82307-499-0. Jimi Hendrix played a brief cover of the song on the live recording Mr. Pitiful, released in 1981 in Germany only. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdfed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.36. Teenage singer Jeri Lynne Fraser released "Poor Begonia (Caught Pneumonia)" in 1960 as an answer to what happened next.

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On the other hand, there are the one-piece bathing suits with cut-outs around the waist. These types can allow you to highlight your waist by shaping it perfectly. These models will visually nip your waist. The song was featured in the 1961 Billy Wilder film comedy One, Two, Three– in a key scene, the character Otto ( Horst Buchholz), suspected of being a spy, is being tortured by the East German police playing the song to him repetitively, eventually with the record off-center to create a weird howling variation of pitch. The actual recording was re-released in 1962 to capitalize on the film's success, but it did not rechart. Rollo, Sarah (November 27, 2008). "Webber makes 'Itsy Bitsy' confession". Digital Spy . Retrieved March 4, 2019.

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Another cover version was "El Cohete Americano", a Cuban propaganda song sung by Las D'Aida in Album de la Revolucion Cubana (2000). In 1984, Dutch singer John Spencer made a Dutch version called 'Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Rood Wit Blauwe Monokini' (meaning 'Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Red White and Blue Monokini') [58] In 1960, it was sung in Japanese by Danny Iida & The Paradise King with Kyu Sakamoto as a member. (Toshiba Records JP-5051) [69]