Comments on: Fly Air Canada

By: Socrat

Socrat — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:04:18 +0000

Hey people Im the boy who is singing the song but it was before 10 years ago Im Bulgarian but the lyrics is not bulgarian.I remember that when I was recording this song the producer tells me that it have to be a sad song because the boy in the song is lost his parents and now he wanna find them:) I was surpised when I saw the advertisement because nobody tells me anything :X but anyway Im glad that you like it it will be great if after 10 years I finally understand for sure the lyrics of this song When the chorus is singing is english,but i dont know for sure which is the language from my part I thought that is japanese but obviously its not.Im from Plovdiv this city is in Bulgaria not Hungary :X:X:X

By: j

Wed, 13 May 2009 05:44:28 +0000

anyone know where to download a ringtone with the same version that is on the commercial??

thanks

By: rolf

rolf — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:19:33 +0000

I thought Plovdiv is in Bulgaria, never mind, the voices are beautiful. The tune in general has a ‘Asian’ influence and the language could be Japanese. I have heard Japanese children sing and the soloist is convincing. Oh well, i did enjoy it. All in all lovely music to soothe a aching Soul.

By: marilyn

marilyn — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:50:16 +0000

That's pretty neat P. Traum! I had no idea, but the Wiki has all sorts of info on this Voyager Interstellar Record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record. I'm going to have to look into this record and see what other music might be out there representing our planet!

By: P. Traum

P. Traum — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:55:34 +0000

The song was also chosen to be included on the Voyager Interstellar Record, a collection of music compiled for a special LP that was attached to the Voyager space craft. The record came with instructions (in a scientific/mathematical coded language) that it was hoped could be deciphered by any advanced intelligent civilization that might find the probe billions of years from now, when the Voyager probe had traveled outside our solar system. Presuming the aliens of the future had ears – or the alien equivalent – with which to listen, they could hear a representative, multicultural sample of Earth’s music from the record. I think it was a project of Carl Sagan’s.

By: Pvt.Parts

Pvt.Parts — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:12:41 +0000

It was all made in Hungaria, but theses were song from all kind of languages.

By: billy

billy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:27:54 +0000

I also read it may be hungarian. wikipedia says of Hughes de Courson: “He had help recording this piece from Plovdiv’s Children’s Choir, of Hungary”

By: marilyn

marilyn — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:14:22 +0000

Thank you for the info Bruce!

By: Bruce Mannheim

Bruce Mannheim — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:27:01 +0000

The song is in Quechua, sung (in 1960) by y young girl from Huancavelica. It appears on John Cohen’s wonderful collection, *Mountain Music of Peru*, Smithsonian Folkways 40020 (disc one, cut 2).

Regards,

Bruce Mannheim
Professor of Anthropology
University of Michigan