It’s a beautiful, traditional Romanian pan pipe folk tune.  But for me – and lots of others – it is memorable and haunting for another reason.

Like Lonnie Donegan, Eddie Cochran was another artist who deeply influenced the young Beatles, back in the the 1950s. Cochran was an American rock pioneer,

Beatles!  Some 30 years on I’m re-reading the excellent “Shout! – The True Story of The Beatles” by Phillip Norman.  Still have my original hardcover

I first heard this 1990’s swinging wonder on ABC 774’s breakfast radio a few years ago.  Based on the audio-only, I thought the