My first song scorecard for the iPhone Ocarina: Bunkócska. In spite of the Hungarian title, this is a Russian revolutionairy song with a folklore tune, but I couldn’t find the original title originally called ‘Dubinushka’ (Дубинушка, meaning ‘little club’ – thanks, Kálmán). Alas, the Hungarian variant only barely resembles the Russian original. Here is a link to the ‘conventional’ (Hungarian) notes and lyrics

What the hell is that, you might find yourself asking. Well, I have no recording of the above song, but to get an idea what an iPhone Ocarina is and why it is going viral, you can watch this dude:

P.S.: If you only see some empty space here, then you’re probably viewing this post with the Google Chrome browser – which seems to have a problem with Youtube videos. Which happens to be another Google product. Ironic, isn’t it?

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Haec perscriptio imissa erat: Friday, November 21st, 2008 @ 23:51. Posita est sub indice: Ceterum censeo. Responsa ad perscriptionem per cursus RSS 2.0 potes sequi. Responsum potes relinquere, aut connectere de pagina electronica propria.

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Lyrics in Russian with English tranliteration & translation:
http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/dubinushka.htm

Notes and lyrics (English transliteration and translation only):
http://www.kaikracht.de/balalaika/english/songs/dubi_not.htm

As MP3 (different versions):
http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/mp3/proletariat-01/Dubinushka.mp3
http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/dubina.mp3

And here an archive recording on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeLxsBpzYDg

November 23rd, 2008 at 23:47

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