Don't know if the Yanks or Aussies know of this tradition, but the Europeans have got to be familiar with it... The music you regularly hear on holiday that would never under any circumstances, be heard the rest of the time... In Turkey, I heard a dance music edit of Smoke on the Water... Share any other horrors...
Not on holiday, but I've heard a pan pipes of 'Light my Fire', and seen a wonderfully erotic version of 'Imagine' by a Japanese lass who had a cracking voice, but obviously no understanding of the words she was singing. Mind you, given 'Imagine' is overrated tat, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it, and hoped Lennon spun in his grave a little.
A Korean dude singing Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" without the slightest bit of soul or talent. The best part was he had on sunglasses, rolling his head around and pretty much aping Stevie's mannerisms. "Vey superstiah.....wrie on warrrrr.....sara mara baruhhh......"
I had a really good night in an Edinburgh club back in 1999/2000 (New Years Eve) rockin' out to the Proclaimers' I Would Walk 500 Miles...I hadn't heard that one in years.
I used to like to razz my parents when they had the local "old folks" music station on in the car. They'd call classic rock all sorts of awful names and say how much they hated it, then they'd put on their elevator music channel and it was all orchestral versions of classic rock! Yep, that's a McCartney song. That's Light my Fire. That's California Dreamin'. Etc. Etc.
