A catchy tune to perk you up on this overcast day
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September 13, 2011 at 11:14am
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I find the North Korean version much more appealing.
Me too! Last time Lou Bondi posted part of it on his blog (I never knew such song existed…never heard it before). Needless to say, I was gobsmacked! However, I didn’t find the full N Korean version.
Please can someone post it on youtube or something?
Yes we did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IKcMI_a9A
Hudu pacenzja u ifgaw f’demmkom 2’23”-2’27”
…that sums it up, Dom.
Daphne, please.
Dan mazokizmu.
Ma taghmlu xejn mal-parrot Mintoff…
Kemm jaghmluli dwejjaq is-songs illi jfakkruni f’ dawk iz-zmenijiet tal-biza’.
Growing up in Paola, we used to hear this song every day, if not every hour.
I remember hearing it over a PA whilst Lorry Sant held a corner meeting right outside our home while we hid indoors praying that no harm would come to our family and our house since Lorry Sant was very provocative in his words against “dawk il-hodor Nazzjonalisti”.
These are the memories which I can never shake off. They keep on hounding me. I try to laugh at some things, like this song but I still can’t see any humour in those days.
Who’s singing? Is it Ray Azzopardi?
It’s the late Tony Gauci.(Il-Kalendarju)
Its a certain Tony Gauci, who was known as il-Kampanjol.
He opened a restaurant in Birzebbugia of the same name, on a plot of land requisitioned from some unfortunate family ‘for housing’. For a time, countless MLP families went there to enjoy indifferent pizza washed down with even more vin tres ordinaire and listen to this poor arse singing .
It was a sort of Labour Mecca.
They made his fortune. He died last year.
His sisters, Sulli and Sunta, are spinsters who have always kept themselves to themselves and still live in Zurrieq.
Tony wasn’t a bad sort. He just was a product of the times. Very MLP, and very untalented, but he milked his crowd with this song.
Jigiferi tas-song tralalalal xi haga .. qalb ta’ kampanjoooool…..? Ha! Dik niftakar il-casette tapes taghha. Ghedtilkom li jien mill-qiegh tal-working class.
These clips give me a horrible sense of deja vu.
Last time I heard this was over thirty years ago. Gives me the creeps.
Please Daphne, don’t do this to me. I can’t handle memory lane. Like Lomax, I grew up in Paola where we had Lorry Sant’s, Censu Moran’s and Mintoff”s canvasers running round intimidating people. A bad, bad time.
On Xandir Malta they played nothing but that and Warda Kanta tearjerkers.
Super One is doing the same thing, except for the fact that the traditional party tunes are played as background during the party bulletins read by Manuel Cuschieri or Ray Azzopardi.
I have vivid memories of an MLP banner in Paola “Lorry Sant xewka f’sorm il-PN”.
For years, I had to walk underneath it, to get to the school bus pickup point. My own personal “Bongu Malta Socjalista”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC8139GehZc&feature=related
As far as I recall the North Korean version was sung when President Agatha Barbara made a state visit to North Korea. Veru tal biki that such a partisan song was played during a state visit.
Some things are best forgotten.
Does anyone remember the clips of Labour crowds singing this song being aired on Xandir Malta on election day?
Very true: Ma taghmlu xejn mal-perit Mintoff.
No work, no jobs, no opportunities and no feckin chance of importing anything or getting a bank loan. Now let us have the same lyrics with Zeppi Muscat.
ma rajtuhomx l-igradwati il-krema tal-futur ikkantaw lill-gonzi u lill-partit nazzjonalista jew fejn tridu inhom tiftakru fejn jaqblilkom dan il-bierah kien mhux tletin sena ilu.