Gyöngyhajú lány

Gyöngyhajú lány, the pearly-haired girl, began with a lyric by Anna Adamis written in 1968. Gábor Presser set it to music the following year, János Kóbor sang it, and Omega put it on their album 10000 lépés. When it appeared in 1970 on a single, it was tucked onto the flip side of Petróleumlámpa, yet it was the song that caught on. Omega later recorded it in English as Pearls in Her Hair and in German as Perlen im Haar. Few songs from behind the Iron Curtain travelled so far. It became popular in West Germany, Britain and France as well as in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and local bands recorded their own versions in Polish, Czech, Serbian, Bulgarian and Lithuanian. East German singer Frank Schöbel made a German pop version, and after Yugoslavia broke apart the melody was even reused as a war song by the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1994 the Scorpions turned it into White Dove, a top 20 hit in Germany and Switzerland. Its strangest journey came in 2013, when Kanye West used it in the outro of New Slaves, sung over by himself and Frank Ocean. West had asked the band, and the label Hungaroton cleared the sample, but in 2016 Presser sued for copyright infringement; the case was settled out of court. Since then the melody has turned up in film trailers, a video game and advertising. A Hungarian beat ballad from 1969 has kept finding new listeners for more than half a century.