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Keywords: Zorbas Blues, music licensing, tv music, royalty free music downloads, download music, music wav, flash music, royalty free music download, film music, business music, royalty-free music, stock music downloads, commercial stock music, stock music library, corporate music, royalty free sounds, royalty free sound, independent music, company music, royalty free music, website music, royalty free background music, background music, royalty free music library, stock music sound effects, license music, stock music loops, world music, music for tv, royalty-free songs, corporate space music, radio sweep, tasteful stock music, Greek, Blues, Jazz, Minor, Doric, Grecian, Greek, Hellenic, Homeric, Ionic, Virgilian, academic Zorbas "Zorba's dance" is a song by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis It is based on two traditional Cretan songs, "Armenohorianos Syrtos" and "Kritiko syrtaki", composed by Giorgis Koutsourelis The song featured in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, for which Theodorakis wrote the soundtrack, and become extremely popular around the world It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas in Greece and elsewhere, and exists as a kind of trademark of Greece It is also known as "Sirtaki", which is a version of the traditional Greek hasapiko "butcher's" dance, choreographed by Giorgos Provias
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass recorded a version of the song as "Zorba the Greek" for their 1965 album Going Places Issued as the B-side of the group's "Tijuana Taxi" single, the song reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
The song was featured, among others, in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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