Every day in January brings a new tra la la song.  Yesterday was a little too country for comfort, so it’s time to get funky.

The Great Deltas Tra La La La La

Come on now. Tra la la now. Open a bottle of Trah Lah Lah and enjoy the funk.

Today’s Tra la la song is from Patsy Cline.  A little bit of country music and a heavy emphasis on a triangle.  Tra le la le la *ding* triangle.

I know the Trah lah lah can lead to many shenanigans, but try not to get caught in any love triangles this year.

Okay, so it’s actually January.  But a bit of Trah Lah Lah can make any month feel like spring. ;D

Today’s Tra la la song is sung by Julie Andrews. The Lusty Month of May from Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot.

Admittedly, I’m much more familiar with Vanessa Redgraves’ Lusty Month of May in the film adaptation. I love how Camelot is an idylic place full of sexy 60s-styled maidens. Unfortunately, they cut the tra la la’s. So Julie Andrews version it is. In case you want to throw back though, here’s the clip from the movie:

Every day in January brings us another tra la la tune to sing while we drink our Trah Lah Lah wines.   And there are only 38 cases left in our January offer for UK residents looking for a bit of Trah lah lah, O’Syrah and Proprietor’s Reserve.   Act fast!

Today’s a beautiful R&B single.  Pat Boone sings Tra la la la la la la la la la la.

Now, as is the case with many of Boone’s hits, it was a cover of a song performed by African American artists.  So Dot (the label) would put out Boone’s version as the more approachable (whiter?) face of R&B.

Here’s the original recording of Tra la la by the Griffin Brothers feat. Tommy Brown (a lot of places say “the Griffin Brothers” but the vinyl in the youtube video just says “Griffin Brother”.. will investigate).  Enjoy!

Tra la la la la la la la la la

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.

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?

 

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It’s the holiday season and we’re happy to see lots of people are opening O’Vineyards wine with their friends and family.  It’s always heart warming to know that we could play a small part in celebrating the best moments of your lives!

Chocolate and O’Vineyards Tasting

O’Podium on Christmas Eve

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It’s hard to link directly to specific reviews on Naked Wines, but our UK customers have been enjoying the wines for the holidays too!

And a whole bunch of people will be opening the Proprietor’s Reserve 2006 on New Years Eve at La Barbacane, a michelin star rated restaurant in the medieval castle of Carcassonne.  The wine has been selected for a pairing with “poularde de Bresse en deux cuissons, le suprême poché aux truffes et langoustines, la cuisse confite, purée de cerfeuil tubéreux purée de cerfeuil tubéreux et salsifis au jus, une sauce, un jus”.  Should be a delicious main course on a mouth watering  275€ St Sylvestre menu.