My high school yahoo group has become active now. A few members were fished out of Orkut and added to the list. There was a mention of a song called 'Malaika' in one of the emails. Boney M seemed to have done a cover version of this number. The song itself was in Swahili and I could find both these versions on YouTube.
Sometime back, after seeing the song's reference in the book 'Snow', I searched for the song called 'Roberta' and found that song as well on YouTube.
Actually I had first searched on Google and the first hit took me to Peppino Di Capri's home page. There I came to know that he had actually performed as the opening act during Beatle's first live show in Rome ! How great is that !!
Anyways Roberta, an Italian number, and a few other songs were available on his web site but unfortunately my browser refused to play any of the songs - even from home.
I had given up on finding that song, when I happened to search on the tube and found it there.
Anyways, both these songs, though being in different languages, seemed to be having a similar kind of spirit - nice, soft numbers. In fact the place where Angleique, the signer, goes Malaiiiiiiiiiikaaaaaaa and point where Peppino goes Robertaaaaa seem pretty much same !
Which I found pretty interesting.
See if you can listen to these songs on the tube. Let me know what you think.
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