Danyel Gérard – Butterfly 

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Butterfly (Danyel Gérard song)

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“Butterfly”
Single by Danyel Gérard
from the album Butterfly
B-side“Le Petit Ours En Pluche”
Released1970
Recorded1969
GenrePop
Length3:23
LabelCBS Records
Songwriter(s)Danyel Gérard
Producer(s)Claude Vallois, Hervé Roy
Danyel Gérard singles chronology
“Helas Trois Fois Helas”
(1969)”Butterfly
(1970)”Avec Ces Deux Mains Là/Sexologie”
(1970)

Butterfly” is a pop song, written and recorded by the French singer-songwriter, Danyel Gérard (born Gérard Daniel Khertakian, 7 March 1939, Paris) in the late 1960s. It was initially a hit in the French language.

Danyel Gérard – Butterfly (1971)

In the early 1970s, English words were written, and Gérard recorded it again in the United States.

Danyel Gérard Butterfly ( version rare Anglo-Française )

In 1971 he also recorded German,

Daniel Gérard + Mary Roos – Butterfly – deutsch – 1971

Spanish

Daniel Gerard – Mariposa (buterfly) en Español

and Italian versions.

🤍 Danyel Gérard ༻Butterfly (italiano)༻🤍

“Butterfly” sold over seven million copies internationally. Many other musicians recorded it, both in instrumental and vocal versions. In the US, that list included Eydie GorméGoldie Hawn

Butterfly

and Eddy Arnold.

Butterfly , Eddy Arnold , 1974

The single was No. 1 in Germany for fifteen weeks in summer 1971. It also reached No. 2 in South Africa. It reached #11 (and spent 12 weeks) in the UK Singles Chart in October 1971. Lack of further chart activity in the UK saw both singer and song branded as a one-hit wonder. It also appeared in the first compilation album put together specifically for telemarketing in the UK, K-Tel‘s 20 Dynamic Hits. It was a similar story in the U.S., where Gérard’s single peaked at No. 78 in the Billboard Hot 100. In Australia Gérard’s version peaked at No. 11 on the Go-Set National Top 40 singles chart in December 1971, with a cover version by local artist Matt Flinders peaking on the same chart a month later at No. 4.

Matt Flinders – Butterfly (1971)

In Germany he had some more songs in the charts, such as “Isabella”

Danyel Gérard – Isabella (ZDF Disco 26.5.1973) (VOD)

and “Meine Stadt”.

Danyel Gérard – Meine Stadt (ZDF Hitparade 23.12.1972) (VOD)

Charts

Chart (1971)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)10
Canada (RPM)68

Butterfly Covers

  • Jim Ed Brown – Butterfly
Butterfly -Jim Ed Brown (lyrics)
  • Butterfly
Butterfly.cover
  • Butterfly – cover by Dave Monk
Butterfly – Ricky King – cover by Dave Monk
  • Ricky King – Butterfly
Ricky King Butterfly
  • Projektchor Gruol beim Auftritt” Butterfly”
Projektchor Gruol beim Auftritt" Butterfly" von Danyel Gerard
  • Billy Vaughn – Butterfly
Billy Vaughn – Butterfly
  • James Last – Butterfly
James Last – Butterfly.
  • Paul Mauriat – Butterfly
Butterfly
  • André Rieu – Butterfly
André Rieu – Butterfly

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