Word: skokian
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...Sleeps Tonight" (The Tokens) from the South African chant "Wimoweh" "Mack the Knife" (Bobby Darin) from the German song "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill "My Way" (Frank Sinatra) from the French song "Comme d'habitude" by Jacques Revaux and Claude François "Skokian" (The Four Lads) from the Zulu song by August Msarurgwa "Strangers in the Night" (Frank Sinatra) from the German song by Bert Kaempfert "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Dusty Springfield) from the Italian song "Io Che Non Vivo" by Pino Donaggio and Vito Pallavicini...
...Some tunes wore their otherness proudly. It was hard to ignore that Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" was Spanish or that "Sukiyaki" by Q (Kyu) Sakamoto was Japanese; those were the languages the tunes were sung in. Even a few translated songs had the novelty of distance and difference - "Skokian," for instance. As I recall the English lyric, it wore its ethnographic condescension jovially: "Oh, far away in Africa,/ Happy happy Africa,/ They do a bingo-bongo-bingo/ In hokey-smoky-Skokian...
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