Description: Zorbas Blues, European Music, Greek Traditional, stock music library, royalty free sounds and royalty free music download
Keywords: Zorbas Blues, stock music library, royalty free sounds, royalty free music download, royalty free music downloads, website music, royalty free music library, royalty-free songs, independent music, television music, music for tv, stock music sound effects, buyout music, royalty-free music, music licensing, stock music loops, music for videos, tv music, music for film, royalty free audio, stock music downloads, corporate music, royalty free sound, company music, background music, royalty-free song, flash music, stock music tracks, royalty free mp3, music library, real time theme music, music and production, music for websites, 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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