Silver Convention - Fly, Robin, Fly

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On this date in 1975, German disco group SILVER CONVENTION 1975 began a 3-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with their single FLY, ROBIN, FLY (Nov 29, 1975)
This disco classic contains the fewest unique words (six) of any non-instrumental Hot 100 chart topper. The chorus simply repeats "fly, robin, fly" three times, with an ending of "Up, up to the sky!" The song was written with very few lyrics because this German group couldn't speak English and therefore were unable to memorize a page of lyrics in a language unfamiliar to them.

Producer Sylvester Levay wrote this tune based on a riff he had in his head one morning when walking. His fellow producer Michael Kunze remembered it and suggested they use it for the Silver Convention album they were recording.
Levay confessed: "I didn't know if it should go on the album. But Kunze was convinced it would be a hit. He said, 'I'm going to call this song 'Run, Rabbit, Run.' I wasn't so happy about it because of the Volkswagen Rabbit, but I didn't want to criticize him. The next morning, somebody up there must have heard my plea. I heard on Armed Forces Network a song, 'Run, Rabbit.' It was just a half-hour before the girls were to come in and sing. I was very happy. I said to Michael that I had just heard a song called 'Run, Rabbit' and in 30 seconds he said, 'O.K., let's do 'Fly, Robin, Fly.'"

Thanks to the success of "Fly, Robin, Fly", Silver Convention became the first German act to have a number one song on the American music charts. The song received a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance in 1976. Silver Convention had another hit the next year with "Get Up And Boogie (That's Right)," which went to #2 in the US. They represented Germany in the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest, where they finished eighth with the song "Telegram."