It was a no #1 hit in Japan in 1966cubanoid wrote:The Spotnicks
It sounds very Finnish, ja?
Does anyone know what is this song, who played it, when, and in which album?
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- KVRAF
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
It sounds very Finnish, ja?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4536 posts since 17 Jun, 2013 from very close to Paris, France
And the version in the MP3 song I had upload, which begins for two seconds with the noise of a train is now also totally found: it was the version by Hideki Matsutake (who was also Isao Tomita's engineer and sound designer of Yellow Magic Orchestra) in the album "Orient Express" in 1982.
Thanks a lot to everyone!
Thanks a lot to everyone!
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- KVRian
- 1224 posts since 2 Dec, 2008 from Finland
:P
Iskelmä style. "No one misses me, the wind of the autumn is my companion.. Driver of the chariot, don't haste, one cannot escape their fate"
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- KVRAF
- 1987 posts since 29 Apr, 2010 from NYC
lol...i actually had no idea. i put the word out on facebook (i have a lot of music friends). i think though in the end one of my friends identified it with the soundhound app.BlackWinny wrote:Wahooooo!!!!
Karelia from David Palmer!
YEAH !!!!
A great thank you, chaosWyrM!!!
Did you know the song or have you made a search?
https://www.soundhound.com/
i think she even got the correct version as the answer to the search but couldnt read it because it was in japanese.
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- KVRian
- 1224 posts since 2 Dec, 2008 from Finland
I thought that Olavi Virta's recording from '58 would have been the earliest, but no. Having looked further into it, it was a translation and adaptation of a russian romance song called Ямщик, не гони лошадей (something like 'Coachman, spare the horses') that was made in 1910s and is apparantly still popular over there as well.
That's not the oldest recording, I have no idea what is, but a nice sounding interpretation still. Goes to show where that balalaika type of tremolo thing comes from, too.
In iskelmä music (a sort of finnish umbrella genre for that kind of dance music I posted earlier) the tune known as 'Ajomies' is a standard type of thing, hence the many interpretations found even in YouTube. Considering its russian roots, it's quite apt to name the instrumental 'Karelia' referring to a region that is now a part of Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia). 'Ajomies' however is more direct translation of the original song.
That's not the oldest recording, I have no idea what is, but a nice sounding interpretation still. Goes to show where that balalaika type of tremolo thing comes from, too.
In iskelmä music (a sort of finnish umbrella genre for that kind of dance music I posted earlier) the tune known as 'Ajomies' is a standard type of thing, hence the many interpretations found even in YouTube. Considering its russian roots, it's quite apt to name the instrumental 'Karelia' referring to a region that is now a part of Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia). 'Ajomies' however is more direct translation of the original song.