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This thread was created to give a tribute to a country. I think it can be cool and we can also learn a lot of things in this thread (culture,music, etc).
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Last edited by Lebasketball; 09-10-2017, 08:47 AM.
A Greek international legend Nana Mouskouri has carried the love of Greece in her heart and all over the world. Here one of her biggest hits: "White Rose Of Athens" to the ravishingly beautiful city of Athens.
And since we are at it, another song dedicated to Athens; "Athina man amou" (Athens My Love) here by Bessy Argiraki
The song is by, strangely enough, an Emirati singer called Hussain al Jasmi with young Egyptian kids and praise of progress in Egypt. This is a new release in 2017
and who doesn't remember with nostalgia what Dalida the Egyptian-Italian singer said about Egypt "Helwa Ya Baladi" (meaning beautiful my country)
Here also a touching contemporary cover by Lina Sleiby
I try to avoid national anthems as they are too nationalistic. I will make one exception though, "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" written in the many languages of South Africa
Talking about America, Josh Gracin, a contestant in The American Idol later released "My Favourite State of Mind" in which he praises American features
Hawaii's got big breaks,
Michigan Great Lakes,
Colorado snowflakes,
Georgia peaches
Louisiana hot food,
New York attitude,
Florida beaches
Tennessee whiskey,
Baby, are you with me?
Texas chili,
Virginia pines
It's hard to beat that California sunshine
Baby, you're my favorite,
Favorite state of mind
This is a tribute to a lot of historical data. I never know a song that contains so much naming of ... almost everything contemporary really
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
by BILLY JOEL
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE the last verse always disappoints me how he skips quickly over the 70's and 80' having paid o much attention to the 50's and 60's
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