Hesrd on American car radio, a sorta reggaefied version of the Volga Bostmen song ( what I used to know as the Yo Heave Ho song). Any ideas who it might be?
Yo! Heave ho…
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There you go? I had thought I had it on an ill-advised e-music purchase of a Molotov Jukebox LP, but I didn’t. But happy to search and found this.
Nice work, Retro. A quick look at Spotify shows that it is an evergreen that has been covered many times.
From Glenn Miller’s tasteful arrangement
to The Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAtK-qv3FpQ
And then there’s Manuel Doloroso’s Mexo-German version. I think that sleeve is more vulgar than Volga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovt_NALCpxo
Fess up! Who’s got a copy of that one? Bought no doubt in a fleamarket in Tijuana?
Just read that the Glen Miler version was a US Number one in 1941.
Here is a rather bizarre version in Chinese.
And a beautifully delicate jazz version by the late, great Jan Johansson.