The STRANGE things I hear when DXing

[SomeRadioGuy]

I tuned the dials late at night last week and ran across the fairly common KSJX 1500 San Jose, about 2000 miles away from my McGrath, Alaska QTH. What caught my ear was what they were airing.

It was a Vietnamese song and while I didn't understand one iota of what they were saying, I recognized the melody immediately.... they were singing a vietnamese language version of the 1959 hit "Love Potion #9" by The Searchers... and I happened to be recording!

Here's the audio:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTgUZ45Eu8N9vh45oi1dV64TQXCeS22V/view?usp=sharing

 

[MarioMania]

Nice Catch

 

[Mitch Brewer]

Very nice from 2000 miles. That song would be Chỉ Riêng Mình Ta by Nguyen Hung from 1998. A most awesome Viet version of an American song. Vietnamese make really great covers of old songs, I guess there was an American influence there at one time or another.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Very nice from 2000 miles. That song would be Chỉ Riêng Mình Ta by Nguyen Hung from 1998. A most awesome Viet version of an American song. Vietnamese make really great covers of old songs, I guess there was an American influence there at one time or another.

Yeah, ive heard some others.... when i heard this i said "wait a sec.. i know this song" and took me about 5 seconds when i heard that whole melody to figure it out

 

[Dondd]

I tuned the dials late at night last week and ran across the fairly common KSJX 1500 San Jose, about 2000 miles away from my McGrath, Alaska QTH. What caught my ear was what they were airing.

It was a Vietnamese song and while I didn't understand one iota of what they were saying, I recognized the melody immediately.... they were singing a vietnamese language version of the 1959 hit "Love Potion #9" by The Searchers... and I happened to be recording!

Here's the audio:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTgUZ45Eu8N9vh45oi1dV64TQXCeS22V/view?usp=sharing

FYI, the Clovers were the ones that scored the first chart hit of Love Portion No. 9 in 1959.
The British Invasion's Searchers covered it in 1964.

 

[Dondd]

The other night, I caught a Mexican station on 1000 AM here in central Texas near Austin.
It was playing music.
The song sounded familiar. Robby Dupree's Steal Away from 1980.
However, it wasn't the original. It was a Mexican version. Very interesting.

 

[davideduardo]

The other night, I caught a Mexican station on 1000 AM here in central Texas near Austin.
It was playing music.
The song sounded familiar. Robby Dupree's Steal Away from 1980.
However, it wasn't the original. It was a Mexican version. Very interesting.

Actually, if they were playing the "hit" version, it was from spain.

My first internship in Mexico in 1963 included helping put together the"bilingües 7-90" or "the "7-90 bilinguals" where we'd edit the US hit in English and the Latin American hit in Spanish of the same song so that they sort of alternated verses in each language. A lot of the hits that were big in the US got Spanish versions, although this declined by the 70's when there were more and more original songs in Spanish and translating US songs was not as popular.

By the mid-70's doing Spanish language covers was pretty much over. Much more common were songs by Italian and French and Portuguese/Brazilian artists done by the original artist but in Spanish.

 

[radioman148]

The other night, I caught a Mexican station on 1000 AM here in central Texas near Austin.
It was playing music.
The song sounded familiar. Robby Dupree's Steal Away from 1980.
However, it wasn't the original. It was a Mexican version. Very interesting.

I'm guessing XEOY Mexico City.