↑ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005).↑ "South African Rock Lists Website SA Charts 1969 – 1989 Acts (B)".↑ "TARZAN BOY – Baltimora" (in Polish).↑ " Baltimora – Tarzan Boy" (in Dutch).↑ " Baltimora – Tarzan Boy" (in French).Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Archived from the original on 14 June 2006. ↑ "UK, Eurochart, Billboard & Cashbox No.1 Hits".↑ " Top RPM Singles: Issue 0614." RPM.↑ " Baltimora – Tarzan Boy" (in German)."Tony Khan buys the rights for "Tarzan Boy" as Jungle Boy's new AEW theme". "The Millennial Whoop: A glorious obsession with the melodic alternation between the fifth and the third". "Flashback Top 50 : qui était n☁ en octobre 1985 ?". List of number-one singles of 1985 (Spain).List of number-one singles of 1985 (France).List of European number-one hits of 1985.List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1985.In 2008, a cover by Bad Influence featuring Dyce reached number 9 in Sweden.In 2006, the song was covered by Bango, and achieved a minor success, peaking at number 37 in France.In 1989, the Hindi song "Aaya Mausam Dosti Ka", from the Bollywood soundtrack for the film Maine Pyar Kiya was heavily influenced by "Tarzan Boy".^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales Track listing and formats Original version The single had success in the United States (where it was released by EMI), with the single remaining on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six months and ultimately peaking at number 13 in early 1986. In the United Kingdom, it reached number 3 in September 1985. "Tarzan Boy" was an international hit, debuting in the top five Italian charts and performing well in several other European countries, including Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and notably, France, where "Tarzan Boy" was most successful, topping the charts there for five consecutive weeks. The song is currently used by Jungle Boy, a wrestler for AEW ( All Elite Wrestling), as his entrance music. Instead it features the front man for the band's performances, Jimmy McShane, who did not actually sing the song but rather lip synced it. The music video for the song does not feature either Bassi or Hackett. It features what was later named the millennial whoop. Baltimora are often considered a one-hit wonder due to the success they experienced with "Tarzan Boy". The song is rhythmical, with an electronic melody and simple lyrics. The refrain uses Tarzan's cry as a melodic line. The song was re-recorded and released in 1993, and has been covered by several artists throughout the years. The song was written by Maurizio Bassi and Naimy Hackett, and released in 1985 as the lead single from Baltimora's debut album Living in the Background. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God." Tarzan Boy" is the debut single by Italian-based act Baltimora. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.