Seven Tears (song)

"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.

"Seven Tears"
Single by Goombay Dance Band
from the album Holiday in Paradise
Released	1981
Genre	Euro disco
Length	3:54
Label	CBS, Epic
Songwriter(s)	Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein, Wolfgang Jass, Ian Cai Mercer
Producer(s)	Jochen Peterson
Goombay Dance Band singles chronology
"Rain" (1980) "Seven Tears" (1981) "Christmas at Sea" (1981)

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]

Track listings

7" vinyl single^[3]

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Seven Tears"	Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein, Wolfgang Jass	3:54

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mama Coco"	Uve Schikora	3:30

12" vinyl single^[4]

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Seven Tears" (Extended Dance Mix)	Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein, Wolfgang Jass	5:21

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mama Coco"	Uve Schikora	3:30

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1981–1982) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 25 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[6] 15 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[7] 6 Denmark (Hitlisten)[8] 10 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[9] 4 Netherlands (Single Top 100)[10] 7 Ireland (IRMA)[11] 1 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[12] 28 Spain (AFYVE)[13] 18 UK Singles (OCC)[14] 1 West Germany (GfK)[15] 13

Year-end charts Chart (1982) Position Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[16] 82 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[17] 62 Netherlands (Single Top 100)[18] 84

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[19]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Cover versions

• French singer Séverine recorded a German version in 1981 named "Sieben Tränen".^[20]
• Dutch singer Arne Jansen recorded a Dutch version, named "Zeven brieven", which was a charting hit in 1982.^[21]
• The song was covered by Croatian pop singer Darko Domijan as "Sedam suza" in 1982.^[22]
• The Swedish dansband Jigs recorded a Swedish version of the song in 1982, named "Hundra tårar".^[23]
• Croatian singer Maja Blagdan also covered the song as "Sedam suza" in 1997.^[24]