Monday, 4 June 2012

Gearchangeski

AVI emails me to inform me of the passing away of Eduard Kihl, dubbed Russia's Laughing Policeman.

The song in the embedded video starts in C, and shifts up a crisp, tidy and pre-announced semi-tone after 52 seconds, after 1 min 25 and again after 2 min 5 (thus arriving at D sharp). Then at 2 min 24 they do something clever and end up in C again. In terms of sheer professionalism, it's up there with Andy Williams' Sleighride:

1 comments:

Tim Almond said...

He recently made a cameo appearance in Family Guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6qmHFANduM&feature=fvwrel