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Oh, Canada! The Four Lads, with Istanbul {Not Constantinople}, 1953. Thanks to the Lads for clearing everything up!

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Istanbul (Not Constantinople) [They Might Be Giants / Four Lads] DEEP COVER 

From The Vault ... March 30, 2011

A Deep Cover is a cover song so well known, most people don’t know it’s a cover. Such is the case for this This Might Be Giants classic. Originally done by the Four Lads,

Bir İstanbul Şarkısı

                    Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - Four Lads  

Istanbul was Constantinople 

Now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople 

Been a long time gone 

Old Constantinople’s still has Turkish delight 

On a moonlight night 

Every gal in Constantinople 

Is a Miss-stanbul, not Constantinople 

So if you’ve date in Constantinople 

She’ll be waiting in Istanbul 

  Even old New York was once New Amsterdam 

Why they changed it, I can’t say 

(People just liked it better that way) 

  Take me back to Constantinople 

No, you can’t go back to Constantinople 

Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople 

Why did Constantinople get the works? 

That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’ 

  Istanbul 

Istanbul 

  Even old New York was once New Amsterdam 

Why they changed it, I can’t say 

(People just liked it better that way) 

  Take me back to Constantinople 

No, you can’t go back to Constantinople 

Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople 

Why did Constantinople get the works? 

That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’ 

  'Stanbul

Söz : Jimmy Kennedy

Beste :  Nat Simon

                               Parçayı seslendirenler

The Four Lads (12 Ağustos, 1953) Orijinal versiyon

Edmundo Ros (1953)

Bing Crosby ve Ella Fitzgerald düeti (1953)

The Duke’s Men of Yale (1953’ten başlayarak canlı performaslarda)

Frankie Vaughan (1954)

Caterina Valente (1954)

Renato Carosone

Darío Moreno (1954, Fransızca)

Jacques Hélian ve orkestrası (1950s, “Istamboul” adıyla Fransızca)

Lou Busch (“Joe Fingers Carr & his Ragtime Band” adı altında)

Ota Čermák (1959)

Santo & Johnny (1962)

Bruno & the Gladiators (1963)

Bette Midler (1977) konser albümü “Live At Last” ta.

Harvard Din & Tonics (1979)

They Might Be Giants (1990)

Lee Press-on and the Nails (1998).

Belmont Playboys (1999) “Istanbul” adıyla enstrümantal

Ac Rock (1999) Acapella versiyonu, “Istanbul” adıyla.

Oscar Aleman (2005) “Estambul” adıyla enstrümantal

Ska Cubano (2006)

PJ Harvey (2011) “Let England Shake” adlı parçasının içinde kullandı.

Terrance Zdunich (2011) şarkıyı “Baş belası Rus, Kont Tarakan” adıyla söyledi.

Sevinç Tevs (1970, “İstanbul” adıyla Türkçe)

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They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)