"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a 1953 novelty song,
with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. It was written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans.
The lyrics humorously refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul.
The song's original release, performed by The Four Lads, was certified as a gold record. Numerous cover versions have been recorded over the years, most famously a
1990 version by They Might Be Giants."
Big Muffin Serious Band
"Big Muffin Serious Band, a ukulele-based music performance group from New Zealand, released a cover on their LP
"Jabberwocky Goes To Town" in 1987."
Muppets
"In Season 2, Episode 4 (U.S. release October 12, 1997)
of the television series Muppets Tonight, portions of the song were performed by
a quartet of rats in kaftans and fezzes."
"Guitarist Trey Anastasio has teased the song on numerous occasions with Phish and with his own band, Trey Anastasio Band."
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"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."
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mesa, isis, surreal
All could recite/perform this
From early ages
Verbatim
They'd take turns.... sometimes
Then sing "the hoodoo bash" by Unholy Modal Rounders
Without missing a step.
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Down at the station at one in the morning
There's a trainload of strangers that just hit town
One has a top hat and one has a falcon
And although they just arrived they know their way a—round
Out to a house at the edge of the town
They're bringing Thunderbird wine and a pound of hash
Come on along if you're one of the people
Because we're gonna to get the spirit down at the Hoodoo Bash
All the wizards from the south
Came up special for the big turnout
Golden Blossom, Singing Bear
They're going to have a party and they just don't care
Fasten your seat belts, let down your hair
Because tonight is the night we've been waiting for
People in trances and African dances
Another kind of life is waiting behind that door
We got supplies that will last for a week
So there ain't nothing can stop us until we crash
When we have kids, we will tell them the story
'Bout the night we got the spirit at the Hoodoo Bash
Magic mushrooms from Singing Bear
Indian visions that'll curl your hair
And Golden Blossom said she'd make
Her dandelion wine and morning glory tea
Tell all your friends that you're gone out of town
And be prepared to go out of your natural mind
We're gonna rise when the sun's going down
When the spirit starts to hit you'll never know what you'll find
you're afraid, then you better stay home
'Cause there's no turning back once the dice are cast
Lovers and strangers will all go thru changes
When they get the good, old spirit down at the Hoodoo Bash.
Track #
13."Hoodoo Bash" (Antonia [Duren]) – 3:32
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Moicy!
Population: 15.66 million
The city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. Byzantium was founded on the Sarayburnu promontory by Greek colonists, potentially in the seventh century BC.
For nearly sixteen centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in 330 AD, it served as the capital of four empires:
the Roman Empire (330–395), the Byzantine Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922)
It was instrumental in the advancement of Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times, before the Ottomans conquered the city in 1453 and transformed it into an Islamic stronghold and the seat of the last caliphate"
The first known name of the city is Byzantium
(Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion),
the name given to it at its foundation by Megarian colonists around 657 BCE.
Megarian colonists claimed a direct line back to the founders of the city,
Byzas, the son of the god Poseidon
and the nymph Ceroëssa."
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"Istanbul's historic peninsula was settled as far back as the 6th millennium BCE.
That early settlement, important in the spread of the Neolithic Revolution from the Near East to Europe, lasted for almost a millennium before
being inundated by rising water levels.
The first human settlement on the Asian side, the Fikirtepe mound, is from the Copper Age period, with artifacts dating from 5500 to 3500 BCE"
"A 1942 wealth tax assessed mainly on non-Muslims led to the transfer or liquidation of many businesses owned by religious minorities.
The US-incited. and state-sanctioned
1955 Istanbul pogrom,
in which hundreds of Greek men, women and children were attacked and raped and dozens murdered, led to the emigration of most of the remaining Greeks in Istanbul.
Government persecution of Greeks and religious minorities, especially Christians, intensified through the 1960s as part of the process of Turkification.
Further mass expulsions of Greeks took place in 1964–1965.
As a result of these policies, the Greek population of Istanbul decreased
from 110,000 in 1919 to 2,500 today "
Counter-Guerrilla
(Turkish: Kontrgerilla) is a Turkish branch of Operation Gladio,
a clandestine stay-behind anti-communist initiative
backed by the United States as an expression of the Truman Doctrine.
The founding goal of the operation was to erect a stay-behind guerrilla force to undermine a possible Soviet occupation.
* The goal was/is oil, oil, power, oil.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_pogrom
