The Mr. Trololo video is sweeping the inter tubes and should be watched if you haven’t already seen it. According to Pravda, yes that newspaper, this is a video of the Soviet era performer Eduard Khil singing “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home” . Khil, interviewed in the Christian Science Monitor, said:
On the phone, he explained that the reason the iconic song has no lyrics is that the original ones, about a cowboy riding the range while his wife sits at home knitting socks, were banned as “too naughty” by Soviet censors of the day.
“A theme like that was unacceptable, so we decided to sing it without any words at all,” he said. “So, in this case, I was an instrument rather than a singer.”
This is very silly indeed. Is that guy wearing a wig?
Things I’ve learned:
1. There were Russian cowboys riding the range.
2. Knitting is fraught with sexual undertones of which I’m innocently unaware. Unstable Isotope doesn’t knit. Should I be relieved, or disappointed?
What will Glenn Beck think of this?
Glenn Beck will want that wig.
Funny. And even funnier, the comment by Free Radical. Ha!
Did Ed Sullivan find this guy, or was he an interlude singer on Lawrence Welk?
Free Radical–be disappointed, and stay intrigued, that gal is downright trainable I hear. I don’t know if she’ll have time for that talent:).