Dick Dale: Misirlou

Remarks:

I love this song, but then I am a sucker for horns. Dick Dale recorded it in 1962 but it is now probably best known in America as the song that opens Quentin Tarantino’s film “Pulp Fiction” (1994). But even in 1962 Dick Dale was covering a yet older Lebanese song that his uncle played, which in turn came from a Greek song of 1927!  You can hear the song still in Greece, the Middle East and at Jewish weddings. There are even Ladino (Jewish Spanish) lyrics for it. The Beach Boys did a lame version of it.

See also:

• The original Greek song
• Dick Dale performing it in 1963
• As sang by Connie Francis in 1965 – American
• As sang by Glykeria, a Greek singer from the 1980s
• Giota Nega – another Greek version