"Swiss Boy" is a

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by Italo disco singer

Tom Hooker Tom Hooker or Thomas Barbey (born Thomas Beecher Hooker on November 18, 1957) is an American people, American singer and photographer. He was the voice and one of the songwriters behind most songs for popular Italo disco artist Den Harrow. The ...

, released in 1986 under the

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Lou Sern (a pun on the Swiss city of

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). At the beginning and towards the end of the song, a recreation of the

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clock chime can be heard. The single was

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the track "Cuckoo Clock (Instrumental)". Although the song was popular in

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and in

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, it was a much bigger hit in the

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, where it still remains popular to this day. The single was released on Esquire Records (Italy),

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(France), Indisc Records (Belgium), Transmedia Records (Portugal), Sanni Records (Spain), Greyhound Records (United Kingdom),

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(under the Mobile Disco Records label) (Philippines), Papagayo Records (Germany), and on Vinyl Independent Records (Europe).

Track listing

#"Swiss Boy" - 5:05 #"Cuckoo Clock" (Instrumental) - 5:03

References

1986 songs 1986 singles Italo disco songs Carrere Records singles Songs written by Tom Hooker {{1980s-pop-song-stub