Wow thanks for not only a great story, but introducing me to such a great song...I didn't know it. Interesting how Kenny Ball and HIS Jazzmen (me and Kirk always take the piss out of that, stressing HIS Jazzmen, not YOUR Jazzmen or MY Jazzmen, they are ALL his and his alone! ;-)) also did another foreign cover, Suki Yaki, which I know better...pop charts seemed strangely more international in the 50's & 60's despite the cold war. Strange how Gangnam Style was made out to be so unusual, when even when I was a kid songs with foreign languages sometimes made the charts, and even Japanese songs back then in the US/Europe, which I find pretty incredible.
Listening I got quite tearful, and it's not even my story! I can just imagine that beaming out on shortwave, I might try and find a recording since with the choir and phasing/skywave shifts that must've been special.
Song reminds me of my favourite Russian song from Cherubashka, Goluboy Vagon (sp?) - Голубой Вагон ?, which I think means (light?) blue train car, but oddly the first word has a queer meaning too apparently?
Anyway this is Gena the Crocodile singing it at the end of a film I have seen, it's quite odd, I think it's based on an old folk song, it gives me a similar feeling, wistful, happy yet sad, what the Portuguese call Saudade?
I've played it on the podcast and read out the translation of the lyrics...it's from 1974. Very popular in Japan and Finland because the SoyuzMultFilm got translated into those languages and shown there...
no subject
Listening I got quite tearful, and it's not even my story! I can just imagine that beaming out on shortwave, I might try and find a recording since with the choir and phasing/skywave shifts that must've been special.
Song reminds me of my favourite Russian song from Cherubashka, Goluboy Vagon (sp?) - Голубой Вагон ?, which I think means (light?) blue train car, but oddly the first word has a queer meaning too apparently?
Anyway this is Gena the Crocodile singing it at the end of a film I have seen, it's quite odd, I think it's based on an old folk song, it gives me a similar feeling, wistful, happy yet sad, what the Portuguese call Saudade?
I've played it on the podcast and read out the translation of the lyrics...it's from 1974. Very popular in Japan and Finland because the SoyuzMultFilm got translated into those languages and shown there...