Today’s tra la la song comes from Russia with love.   Excuse the poor quality of this recording.  You can hardly tell the chorus is tra la la.

The Red Elvises must have had a bit too much Trah Lah Lah before performing the song, because normally the lead vocals are a dude on this song and the girl does the chorus. So this is a fun role reversal. 🙂 Enjoy.

A new tra la la song for every day in January!  And today, UK readers of this blog can actually grab a mixed case with a couple bottles fo Trah Lah Lah wine at an incredibly discounted price.

Thursday, I posted the wildly popular Ding Dong Song by Gunther and the Sunshine Girls.  But the truth is that song’s famous chorus “Ooh, you touch my tra la la/ ahh my ding ding dong” comes from another song!

Here is the original Tra la la song by the Dutch band Phil & Company.

 

Have I blown your mind?! So boys can sing Tra la la like Gunther and girls can sing tra la la like Phil.  Ding dang dong.

Stay tuned for more exciting trah lah lah music history. ;D

Every day in January promises another Tra la la song to sing when you drink a bit of our Trah Lah Lah wine. But yesterday’s ding dong song was so over the top ridiculous, I feel like we should get back to something more serious.

Today’s song is from Bizet’s opera Carmen. The first bit is dancing and instrumental, but the Tra la la’s come in around the 2:00 mark. And once they start, they don’t stop.

That’s Agnes Baltsa singing “Les tringles des sistres tintaient”. Since nobody knows what the heck a sistres is or what it would sound like when it taintaients, it’s often called the “Gypsy Song”. A sistre is a type of percussive instrument like a tambourine that has sort of small metal rods that will clink together. Tintaient is a form of past tense for light ringing/jingling (like when you ring a bell without letting the clapper hit the side of the bell).

The more famous performance of this song is probably Maria Callas, but then you don’t get to see video of them dancing around tensely to the instrumental. I have to make choices!

Anyway, if you’re too serious to ask people to touch your tra la la, your ding ding dong, then you can sing some operatic Tra la la’s from Carmen instead.

We’re posting lots of songs about tra la la, and encouraging you to sing them after drinking a bit of Trah Lah Lah wine. While today’s song is embarrassingly cheesy, I’d be remiss to ignore it.

I vaguely remember the first time I saw this music video. I believe it was in college, before YouTube. So you had to find a quicktime video or download it on kazaa. 2004 was so recent, how can I be so nostalgic already?

Well, when you see the glint in Gunther’s eye, you understand the true meaning of nostalgia. Enjoy this absurdly over the top Eurodance classic “Ding Dong Song” by Gunther and the Sunshine Girls.

And now you know why I snicker every time somebody asks to taste my Trah Lah Lah. However I should take a moment to deny rumors that we’re working on a cuvée Ding Ding Dong.

Here’s a 78 recording of LaVern Baker (I think with her backing band The Gliders) performing Tra la la. Just one more song you might sing if you and your loved one have a bit of trah lah lah wine this year.

If you like this song, you might want to check out Tweedlee Dee and Bop-Ting-A-Ling. LaVern Baker was sort of a fan of onomatopoeia.

Alright. it’s January 2012. I’m full of ideas and energy.  I just finished up the Trah Lah Lah 2010 blend (it’s awesome) and I want to celebrate that.  So I’m going to post songs with a lyric like Trah Lah Lah or Tra la la or Tra Lee Lah or whatever until I run out of songs.  Feel free to contribute your own favorites by email or in the comment section.

Here is the first TRAH LAH LAH January post!

Gene Kelly and Oscar Levant perform Tra La La in the film adaptation of An American in Paris

How much Trah Lah Lah do you have to drink before you start tap dancing?

 

My friends with a B&B in Pieusse just made a great music video to represent their lodging and the feeling of staying in a small town near Limoux.

It’s got me thinking about doing my own video in this music video or movie teaser style.  I looked back on 2011 to see what other music videos and wine themed teasers were catching my attention.  Here are the top three:

Maison Laurent, Pieusse – Meu Images

Maison Laurent Chambres D’hotes, Pieusse, France from meu images on Vimeo.

 Zenithude, Bourgogne – Aurelien Ibanez of Bourgogne Live

La Clef des Terroirs, France – Dahu Production

La Clef des Terroirs | Film sur le vin en biodynamie from Univers Ditvin – Dahu Production on Vimeo.

 Will I make a vineyard music video?

So the question now is … should I make a music video for O’Vineyards or Love That Languedoc?  I really like the idea.  I’d be proud to have a cool video like the ones above.  But I’m not sure it’s the best way for me to spend my time this winter.  Other projects take precedence for now.  But still… I’d like to do it.  I also wish I had one of these camcorders.  /drool

As ridiculously happy as I was when one Japanese customer paired my wine with AC/DC’s “Let There Be Rock”, I was more than a little surprised to see the band was actually teaming up with a winery in Australia to release some AC/DC wines.

You Shook Me All Night Long Moscato

Soon, wine rockers around the world will be able to get a taste of the Barossa and Coonawarra regions of Australia with clumsy names like “You Shook Me All Night Long Moscato” and “Highway to Hell Cabernet Sauvignon”.   I’m sad that people won’t need to pair my wine with AC/DC anymore (assuming they’ll pair AC/DC music with AC/DC wine from now on).  But on the other hand, I could never pull off the sleeveless hard rock thing.

Hopefully fun gimmicks like this can get some decent wine into the hands of people who normally wouldn’t be drinking wine.

AC/DC can be a gateway wine for people. 🙂