Arjun's Blog! » pump it http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog A blog about the happenings around me! - arjun prabhu Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:35:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pump it!!! http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2009/12/27/pump-it/ http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2009/12/27/pump-it/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:17:03 +0000 Arjun http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/?p=619 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:

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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