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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Don't Tell Those One-Worlders

... But we got a lot of individual countries in this-here world!  Case in point:
It's a 1979 CD.  Its contents:

01. Austria (Land der Berge, Land am Strame) (1:33)
02. United Kingdom (God Save the Queen) (1:17)
03. Western Germany (Deutchland uber Alles) (1:37)
04. France (La Marseillaise) (1:42)
05. Italy (Inno di Mameli) (1:47)
06. Russia (Hymn of the Soviet Union) (2:20)
07. USA (The Star-Spangled Banner) (1:34)
08. Israel (Hatikvah) (1:15)
09. Belgium (La Brabanconne) (1:03)
10. Japan (Kimi Go Yo Wa) (1:00)
11. Norway (Ja vi Elsker dette Landet) (1:08)
12. Australia (Waltzing Matilda) (1:50)
13. Sweden (Due Gamia, du Fria) (1:16)
14. Spain (Marcha Real) (0:59)
15. Netherlands (Wilelmus van Nassouwe) (1:23)
16. Finland (Friedrich Pacius) (1:03)
17. Switzerland (Rufst du mein Vaterland) (1:17)
18. Denmark (Kong Kristian Stod ved hojen Mast) (1:14)
19. Turkey (Independence March) (1:19)
20. Canada (O Canada) (1:24)
21. Czechoslovakia (CSSR) (1:32)
22. Bulgaria (BLR) (1:12)
23. Hungary (MLR) (1:46)
24. East Germany (NDR) (1:17)
25. Poland (PLR) (0:46)
26. Roumania (RSR) (1:17)
27. Yugoslavia (SFRJ) (0:43)
28. Albania (1:15)

As you might infer, time has affected the accuracy of this presentation.  For example:  Track 20 gives "CSSR" as a denotation of Czechoslovakia.  I bet that stands for the "Czech Socialist Soviet Republic."

And since 1979, there's been a sort-of regime change in Olde Englande, so the noun in Track 2's  title is wrong ...

Have a listen.  I hope any overseas listeners will tell us their opinion of the performance of their own country's song.


How's that for a wild and weird bunch of nationalistic mortals!?!
  

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