Monday, December 24, 2012

A veritable Christmas present

How do you explain a young Chinese girl that decides to do a cover of an old Odessa Jewish gangster song? Here is the original...

5 Comments:

Blogger The back of the hill said...

The same way you explain this: "katyusha".

Strange days indeed, most peculiar, mama.

December 26, 2012 2:01 PM  
Blogger e-kvetcher said...

Yeah, but at least the katyusha madness was not sung in russian - and it is a fairly popular song. The odessa gangster song is relatively obscure...

December 26, 2012 2:53 PM  
Blogger The back of the hill said...

Good points. Especially as Russian is an extremely hard language for speakers of most East-Asian languages.

December 27, 2012 1:07 PM  
Anonymous Nechama said...

Да....много она на себя взяла....

January 17, 2013 4:19 PM  
Anonymous e-kvetcher said...

Nechama, you're a very funny lady :)

Интересно какой именно отходняк популярен в её синагоге?

January 18, 2013 2:15 PM  

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