Mr. Fasano’s English Class

The Irish pop group Divine Comedy recorded a song based on “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” Here’s a snippet from the song. Give it a listen.

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A couple of months have passed since the “Once” duo of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won Oscars for their song “Falling Slowly” from John Carney’s independent hit of last summer. Now they have a brand-new track for another movie, which again is a bittersweet boy-meets-girl foreign movie.

The song is called “One More Word” and it’s from the independent Israeli movie “Strangers“, which was well received at Sundance in January. From what I’ve read the film goes for the docu-style urbanity of Once, but with an original twist: an Israeli Romeo meets a Palestinian Juliet. My understanding is that the duo recorded the song in Prague two weeks before the Academy Awards.

Hear it here:

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