“Naomi No Yume” (1970) – Hedva and David * Written by David Krivoshe, Tirza Atar, and Kazuko Katagiri * Japan 45: “Naomi No Yume” / “Ani Holem Al Naomi” * Label: RCA Victor
In 1970 Israeli duo Hedva Amrani and David Rosenthal entered their single “Ani Cholem Al Naomi” (“I Dream of Naomi”) in Tokyo’s Yamaha Song Festival and won first prize. They entered with a Japanese version, though, which subsequently sold close to a million copies. If you let this sticky song run through your mind long enough, it might morph into the Association’s “Along Comes Mary” or the Zombies’ “She’s Not There.”