Linguaphile wrote:Thanks for posting that one! What's funny is that even though it's the "standard Finnish folk melody" (or what I will always think of as "Veljo Tormis's Laulusild melody", LOL), for some reason what it also reminds me of is the soundtrack to the Georgian-Estonian movie Mandariinid:
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and while the music for that soundtrack was written by a Georgian composer and I don't know whether or not he had any intention of making it sound Estonian at all or purely Georgian (and anyway that's not Finnish), if he did I think he did it brilliantly, because it sounds Georgian but also sounds like it could (almost) work as a melody for either Estonian or Finnish folksongs too. (And if he didn't, well, then never mind. But they go nicely together.)
Wow, that does sound very familiar! Like these guys could at any time start singing along with it:
https://youtu.be/XRdCsEVFd4IBy the way, this reminded me of the first song in Frozen:
https://youtu.be/1TXc2JbCjmwThe moment I heard the first notes of the men's song (0:50), I knew I had heard it before. That didn't make any sense of course because I was quite sure the song had been composed for the movie, but it was so familiar I couldn't help but wonder how I could've managed to hear it before it had been made!
But then, suddenly, I realised it: it's the theme song of a Finnish cooking show from the 1970s-1990s.
https://youtu.be/572VhrmihwAThe song is apparently called "Finnish Whistler" and it was made by Roger Whittaker, a British singer-songwriter and musician.
I know the rest of the songs do not match, but I can't be the only one who can hear the similarity, right?
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