Description: Zorbas Blues, European Music, Greek Traditional, royalty-free stock music, download music clips and music library
Keywords: Zorbas Blues, royalty-free stock music, download music clips, music library, download stock music, production music library, royalty-free production music, stock music, royalty free mp3, royalty free music download, royalty free music, stock music tracks, music for videos, world music, music licensing, commercial stock music, websites music, royalty free music library, royalty free sounds, royalty free music loops, buyout music, stock music sound effects, stock music clips, music for video, download music, business music, cheap production music, royalty-free music, commercial music, royalty-free song, royalty free music for websites, music publishers, music library license, 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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