Nobody's Business but the Turks'

[drpaisley]

On March 28, 1930, the capital of Turkey was officially renamed Istanbul Sooooooo.....

Well, poop on a stick, as Conbarbie would say. YouTube doesn't seem to have the original video for "Istanbul, not Constantinople" anywhere, so here's the Tiny Toons version.


Edit: Saved by Smofbabe! Here is the original in all its glory! Thanks!

Comments

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

Don't know whether it's the original, but Vimeo has a version, plus MTV Europe has a live version by the boys.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Oh gods -- I am old enough that the original used to play on the radio when I was a kid. I even know parts of the words from then.

[tully01.livejournal.com]

Here's the original from The Four Lads, ca. 1953.

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

LOL, if you left a girl in Constantinople, she'd be real frikkin old by now.