Never on a Sunday.

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People sing it, whistle it as they walk along the street in Piraeus. In English it’s the film and song Never on a Sunday, the much sanitised, processed and diminished version of the gutsier Greek original, “Ta pedia tou Peria”. When I was in Piraeus a week or so ago a group of bazouki players were playing the song in the square outside a Church and a hesitant young woman sang. She was a shy young thing but she let it rip when she got to the best bit and the crowd of elderly people watching joined in and there was dancing. Melina Mercouri "Never On Sunday" on The Ed Sullivan Show