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"Calcutta" stayed atop the US pop chart for two weeks while the album, with its combination of easy listening tunes and covers of then-popular rock singles, charted at #1 for two weeks, [1] spending three months on the chart. At the time "Calcutta" reached #1, Welk, who was 57, became the oldest artist to have a number one pop single in the U.S.
An accompanying music video for the song was produced in 1998. It shows Jakobsen clad in a kurta, pagri and dark glasses, driving the streets of Calcutta in an Austin FX4 as he collides with pedestrians and debris, steals the lunch of an unsuspecting restaurant customer, steals a newspaper in a similar manner and hangs outside his taxi window in roller skates as various engine parts are ...
In its review on January 12, 1959, Time magazine called this album, "An infectious musical dialogue between two of the sassiest fancy talkers in the business. C. & C. give slick and witty readings to a selection of retreads — 'On a Slow Boat to China', 'You Came a Long Way from St. Louis' — and introduce a punchy, potential hit named 'Calcutta'.
The following is a list of songs written about Kolkata or Calcutta, the capital city of West Bengal province of India: "Hymn for Kolkata" – by The Geek's Guitar [1] "Ami Miss Calcutta" – sung by Aarti Mukherjee in Basanta Bilap (1972) film "Kolkata" – sung by Nachiketa Chakraborty in Ei Besh Bhalo Achhi (1993) album
Song of Kali is a horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1985.It was the winner of the 1986 World Fantasy Award. [1] The story deals with an American intellectual who travels to Calcutta, India, where he becomes embroiled in mysterious and horrific events at the centre of which lies a cult of Kapalikas that worships Kali.
The song in Nepal Bhasa also gained fame because it was played in London during the state visit of Nepalese Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana to England in 1850. [2] [3] It was first recorded on gramophone disc by maestro Seturam Shrestha in Kolkata in 1908. A movie of the same name and based on the story of the song was released in 1995. [4]
The Hits is a compilation album by Swedish Eurodance artist Jonny Jakobsen.It was published by Warner Bros. Records in 2007.. Although released under the pseudonym of Dr. Bombay, the album also features a number of tracks released by Jakobsen as Dr. Macdoo as well and, despite being a compilation, features two song that have not appeared on any of his previous studio albums.
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.