"She throws her arms around me like a circle round the sun"

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 at 00:00

"If he asks you was I laughing / If he asks you was I laughing / If he asks you good buddy was I laughing / Tell him I was crying tell him I was crying"

"Sydän kylmä voi olla kun jää"

Korobeiniki

"Wuf!"

"The look in your eye beats the morning on May"

"Tell me the first token / that passed between you and me"

"Sitkva vut'khar da itskina, sitkva vutkhari (...ganriskhda gadga ganzeda)"

"You privatize away what is ours, what is ours" * Billy Bragg: Thatcherites * lyrics by Billy Bragg, music trad. * produced by Grant Showbiz * released on Aug 12th, 1997

Alice Babs: Visa från Älvdalen (aka Gammal fäbodpsalm / Gammal fäbodpsalm från Dalarna) * trad. * accompanied by Nils Lindbergs Orkester * arranged and directed by Nils Lindberg * recorded between Sep 11th - 14th, 1974, released later in 1974 * footage shot near Siljan in Dalarna during the 1980's * uploaded by Ensaligblandning on Dec 18th, 2009

"Twas on a sunny morning / the brightest of the year / when Johnny came to my town / a Union volunteer" * Johnny Is My Darling (American variation of the traditional Scots song) & Hungarian folk music * footage from the film Még kér a nép, directed by Miklós Jancsó, released on Mar 9th, 1972

Miklós Jancsó 1921 - 2014

"...and now I am sick / and my days are over..:" * Peter O'Toole & Richard Harris: Carrickfergus * trad. * footage from the 2000 Heineken Cup Final at Twickenham Stadium, London on May 27th, 2000 (shot before the match) * uploaded by Conor Ryan on Jun 24th, 2011

"Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä..." * Kivikasvot: Musta joulu * trad. / incl. various (or sort of) Christmas carols * arranged by Pentti Lasanen * released in 1971

"Ei ahdista taakka, ei kiristä vyö / jos poikkeat taas talohon" * Ansa Ikonen & Tauno Palo: Kulkurin valssi * music trad. & by J. Alfred Tanner, lyrics by J.A. Tanner & Mika Waltari * the song recorded originally in 1926, by Ansa & Tauno in 1974 (conducted by George de Godzinsky), renewing their performance from the 1941 film Kulkurin valssi

"If fortune should ever favour me / ? if I should have money in store / I'll come back and I'll wed the sweet lassie I left / on Paddy's Green..." * T.T. Oksala: Shamrock Shore * trad. * arranged and produced by T.T. Oksala * released in 1988

Gute Nacht (composed by Adolf Eduard Marschner in the mid-1800's, lyrics probably trad.) * performed by an unidentified sextet of "graduates", incl. choirmaster Matti Ranin (as Kaarlo "Kalle" Härkönen) * footage from the film Katupeilin takana (directed by Toivo Särkkä, premiered on Nov 4th 1949)

Matti Ranin 1926 - 2013

"Nyt meillä nähdään nykyajan voitto / radiosta raikaa maailman soitto / korvessa kaukaisessa / pirtissäkin pienoisessa" * Tatu Pekkarinen: Laulu radiosta (trad., lyrics by T. Pekkarinen) \ released in 1929