Seven Tears (song)

"Seven Tears"
Single by Goombay Dance Band
from the album Holiday in Paradise
Released1981
GenreEuro disco
Length3:54
LabelCBS, Epic
Songwriter(s)Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein, Wolfgang Jass
Producer(s)Jochen Peterson
Goombay Dance Band singles chronology
"Rain"
(1980)
"Seven Tears"
(1981)
"Christmas at Sea"
(1981)

"Seven Tears" is a song by the Goombay Dance Band, released in 1981. It was released as the only single from their third studio album, Holiday in Paradise, and was subsequently featured on the UK-only compilation Seven Tears.

Written by Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein and Wolfgang Jass, and produced by Jochen Peterson, "Seven Tears" was a major hit across Europe in the winter and spring of 1982. The song spent three weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart,[1] being the fourth time a German act had topped the UK chart, six weeks after Kraftwerk had achieved that feat with "The Model" in 1982 and Boney M with "Rivers Of Babylon" and "Mary's Boy Child" in 1978.[2]

  1. ^ "The Official Charts Company - Seven Tears by Goombay Dance Band Search". The Official Charts Company. 11 February 2015.
  2. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 405–7. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.