“Bring Me Edelweiss” by Edelweiss

Austrian outfit Edelweiss cut "Bring Me Edelweiss" loose on its own as a single in late 1988, before it landed on their debut album, Wonderful World of Edelweiss, and it's as brazen as Europop gets: a patchwork of samples, yodeling and all, with ABBA's 1975 "SOS" lifted for the chorus. The writing credit reads Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Stig Anderson alongside Martin Neumayer and Walter Werzowa.

Its origin story runs through the Timelords, better known as the KLF, who topped the charts in the UK and New Zealand in 1988 with the sample-stuffed novelty "Doctorin' the Tardis" and then, as a joke, published a how-to book by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty called The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way). "Bring Me Edelweiss" went on to reach number one in six countries and sell more than five million copies worldwide.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.