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  • Tribute to a country ! Explain why ?

    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.

  • #2
    This is a great idea. Countries are very deserving and some of the best songs are written about homeland.

    Here is actually a song called "Homeland". It is by Irish country singer Derek Ryan.

    The singer chooses beautiful green scenery from his beautiful country with beautiful people, beautiful nature and beautiful music

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    • #3
      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

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      • #4
        A tribute to Egypt and its future.

        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

        Last edited by worldbasketball; 12-19-2017, 06:28 PM.

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        • #5
          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

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          • #6
            Tribute to Austria - "Edelweiss"

            Here a sweet sweet version by Nataly Dawn

            Edelweiss is a white flower found high in the Alps

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            • #7
              This Land Is Your Land, probably one of the best songs written about America. It is by the very enigmatic Woodie Guthrie.

              Here a modern version by My Morning Jacket



              It was used believe it or not for an ad for The North Face brand

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              • #8
                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

                LOL

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                • #9
                  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

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                  • #10
                    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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