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Spotlight Song #1: Hasselhoff's Looking for Freedom
Choral Fixation
English - November 11, 2020 01:17 - 28 minutes - 20.3 MBMusic Commentary Music Society & Culture a capella carollers carols choirs choral choral fixation choral music chorale chorus classical music Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This episode, we’re doing a deep dive on a song that means a lot to Germans who remember the heady days of reunification in 1989. If you want to do your own exploration of the earworm that may* have ended the Cold War, check out:
David Hasselhoff - Looking For Freedom Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/h2f9dumn8DM (We’re listening to this at 9:10 in the episode)David Hasselhoff - Looking For Freedom Live in Berlin (1989): https://youtu.be/dYVi7n7aoB4 (Starting at 14:52 in the episode)David Hasselhoff & André Rieu - Knight Rider Theme Song & Looking For Freedom: https://youtu.be/BSeWA8f0Qv0 (We start watching this at 23:16 in the episode)
Special thanks to Aaron P for listening and giving feedback. Much appreciated.
* It absolutely did not.