Thursday, November 6, 2008

Neil Young in Hungarian

This is an excellent cover (and in Hungarian no less) of Pocahontas at the Hétrétország Festival 2005. I couldn't figure out what the band's name was or other information from Youtube, but Youtube lists the title of the song as NYS - Merített dal /Pocahontas, and the tags list the following words which may or may not be the band members: Huzella Rátóti Tóth Sülyi Sétány. Anyways, if you follow the link on the page, and find the English link, you get to a page with the following information: Neil Young Sétány (Neil Young Walkway) is the invention of a Hungarian coach of four': Peter Sülyi - the famous lyricist with the Hungarian rock group Omega - has translated Neil Young's songs into Hungarian, and three good friends perform them: Peter Huzella, who started in the Kalaka ensemble, Zoltan Rátóti, who -after several theatres - now plays in the Hungarian National Theatre, and Istvan Tóth, the founder of the Hetret ensemble. Awesome!



Here they are performing My My, Hey Hey at the Hétrétország Festival. These guys truly rock! It's funny, they don't translate "hey hey, my my" into Hungarian, I gues those don't really count as English words (same with "rock and roll" which makes more sense at least).

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