Boney M.’s Ra Ra Rasputin has been a dance-floor classic since 1978, but the song has found an unexpected second life in the age of memes. What began as a disco tribute to Grigori Rasputin, the ...
The song came from the streets of Ottoman Istanbul. Katibim is an 18th or 19th-century Istanbul urban folk song known as Uskudara Gider Iken The melody spread across Balkans, Middle East, and South ...