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I’m spending the night in Bangkok tonight and heading to Phuket in the morning. Thought it fitting to post this video from the musical CHESS.
“One Night in Bangkok” is a song originally sung by Murray Head on the 1984 concept album for the musical Chess. Its music was composed by former ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with lyrics written by Tim Rice. The song was released by Byte Records.
The release topped the charts in many countries, including West Germany, Switzerland and Australia. It peaked at #3 in both Canada and the United States, and at #12 in the UK.
The song is mainly a pop song, though at the time it could also have been classed as belonging to the dance music genre. The choruses (variations on the phrase “One night in Bangkok…”) were sung by Swedish artist Anders Glenmark. The verses could be described as a spoken rap by Head, a sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek denunciation of the city’s moral corruption and comparative glorification of the intellectual purity of chess: e.g., “the queens we use would not excite you.”
The song’s lyrics contain a number of Bangkok-related references, among them the “muddy old river” (the Chao Phraya River), the “reclining Buddha” (the Wat Pho statue) and Yul Brynner (who played the King of Siam in The King and I).
Lyrics after the jump (more…)
This is so bad on so many levels. That is not Nelly rapping on the verses either, right? Wow. FAIL. You know if you are respitting a line from Lil Mama, something is wrong.
