Description: Zorbas Blues, European Music, Greek Traditional, music wav, tv music and stock music
Keywords: Zorbas Blues, music wav, tv music, stock music, background music, corporate music, cheap royalty free music, independent music, commercial stock music, royalty-free songs, company music, production music, stock music clips, royalty-free production music, websites music, royalty-free stock music, royalty free background music, music loops, royalty free audio, royalty free sound, stock music library, download music clips, royalty free music, royalty free music loops, television music, music licensing, cheap production music, royalty free music downloads, stock music sound effects, flash music, maypole music, corporate video production companies, embedded music library, 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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