Saturday, April 10, 2010

An Italian '60es song translated into English

I thought the original was the English version, but it is the other way around! [source]

''In 1966 Italian pop singer Adriano Celentano had a hit with his own composition, the ecologically-themed "Il ragazzo della via Gluck" (translates as The Boy from Gluck Street). In January 1966 he entered it into the Sanremo Music Festival
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The English version "Tar and Cement" has lyrics by Americans Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance.'' [video]

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