Description: Zorbas Blues, European Music, Greek Traditional, royalty-free stock music, stock music clips and music for tv
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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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