Pump it!!!

December 27th, 2009 at 11:17pm

I am pretty sure most of you must have heard the sound track “Pump it ” by Black eyed peas. More so, you might have heard some variant of the track! When I first heard this song from the Black Eyed Peas, i was like…hmm.. i have heard that tune some where!

So, being curious, I did some search on wikipedia on this song… and was presently surprised with the history of the song… Its based on a Greek song called Misirlou.

Further digging brought up this site : http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/297. The author has nicely documented the history of this song. There have been so many different versions of this song – starting from the 1930’s!  Check out the progression:

• Michalis Batrinos – Mousourlou (cir. 1930)
• Danai – Misirlou (cir. 1947)
• Seymour Rexite – Miserlou (cir. 1950)
• Rabbi Abulafia – Misirlou (cir. 1951)
• The Cardinals – Misirlou (1955)
• Korla Pandit – Misirlou (1958)
• Enoch Light – Misirlou (1959)
• Martin Denny – Misirlou (1960)
• Dick Dale – Tribal Thunder (1993)

In addition to the above, this musical note has been used in various other recordings and sound tracks! No wonder, we have heard that track before! :)

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