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Thread #92033   Message #4013694
Posted By: rich-joy
14-Oct-19 - 10:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Ja helo helo malenka jako sa tabe pasu
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ja helo helo malenka jako sa tabe pasu
There are now many variants of this song on YT, (and some are, naturally enough, more to my taste than others!)

The Yale Slavic Chorus has used it as a "Calling On" song after interval and there is also a version from an all-male ensemble from Montpellier.
However, I have now located the version from which I first learnt this holler - as detailed in my post above of 06June2006 - by seminal group, The Pennywhistlers, from their 1967 LP :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t07L_dGvJWA

The Pennywhistlers, founded in the US by the wonderful Ethel Raim, influenced so many ‘western’ singers to vocally explore Eastern European folk music (witness the now widespread Macedonian "Shto Mi E Milo"!) - I am just one grateful recipient - and still a fan, some 50 years on!!

Cheers!
Rich-Joy
(Down Under)