Thursday, October 29, 2009

Maria Madelena - Maria taikka Leena


I couldn't resist the temptation to put Maria Magdalena to follow Jesus Christ, like, as we have been told, she did in real life. Frederik (yes, HIM again!) recorded "Maria taikka Leena" (Maria or Leena) in 1979 on his "Tsingis Khan" -album. The original song was called "Maria Madelena" and it was one of the lesser hits (1977) for our old friend from Mozambique, Afric Simone. This was the third Afric Simone -cover from Frederik, and one more was to come. The afro-disco song - which is not of religious nature - was once again written by Afric himself in collaboration with Stan Regal.

p.s. I'm on holiday trip for a week, so no finnpicking for a while.

Here's the pair:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Arrowman said...

This month was total failure, but I now have travelled thruogh your blogs from the beginning up to this...
Couple of last months was perfectly working, and this (October 2009) only handfull of songs was working, luckily for me, these songs were familiar to me, so I don't need to beg you.....