WHEN WILL THE Waltzing Matilda has become a Spanish sensation?
The catchy unofficial Aussie national anthem has become somewhat of a sensation in Spain since it was chosen by a mobile telephone company to promote its new summer tariff plan, then featured in their advertisement in the break of the televised Champions League soccer grand final watched by millions across Europe recently. The accents on the advertisement are strange and the video clip is downright wacky but online chat rooms and talk back radio in Spain has been inundated with debates about “Billy-bongs” and “Kooly-bar trees” and speculation about what it was that a man put into a “ta-ka” bag. Executives from Orange telephone network in Spain said the song – sung by school children from Disney World in Florida known as the Countdown Kids – was chosen because it summed up the mood of fun and sun and summer. “We listened to quite a variety of songs both from Spain and abroad to accompany this spot,” an Orange spokeswoman in Madrid said yesterday. “From the moment we heard the song Waltz
he catchy unofficial Aussie national anthem has become somewhat of a sensation in Spain since it was chosen by a mobile telephone company to promote its new summer tariff plan, then featured in their advertisement in the break of the televised Champions League soccer grand final watched by millions across Europe recently. The accents on the advertisement are strange and the video clip is downright wacky but online chat rooms and talk back radio in Spain has been inundated with debates about “Billy-bongs” and “Kooly-bar trees” and speculation about what it was that a man put into a “ta-ka” bag. Sources: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25643333-663,00.
DON’T be surprised as you walk down a street in Spain to hear someone humming or even singing the words to Waltzing Matilda. The catchy unofficial Aussie national anthem has become somewhat of a sensation in Spain since it was chosen by a mobile telephone company to promote its new summer tariff plan, then featured in their advertisement in the break of the televised Champions League soccer grand final watched by millions across Europe recently. The accents on the advertisement are strange and the video clip is downright wacky but online chat rooms and talk back radio in Spain has been inundated with debates about “Billy-bongs” and “Kooly-bar trees” and speculation about what it was that a man put into a “ta-ka” bag. Sources: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25643333-663,00.
