For my wife and Deb: Elvis sung in Latin

[thewayne]

News of the Weird first noted Professor Jukka Ammondt of the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland in 1995, and apparently his twin passions (Elvis Presley and Latin) have only grown stronger since then. He performs Elvis' songs in the "dead" language that's far from dead in Finland -- a country that features a regular radio newscast entirely in Latin (drawing about 75,000 listeners), according to an October BBC dispatch from Helsinki. Among the Ammondt-Presley standards: "It's Now or Never" ("Nunc hic aut numquam") and "Love Me Tender" ("Tenere me, suaviter"). [BBC News, 10-24-06]

I wonder if the station steams broadcasts...

Comments

[wuglet.livejournal.com]

There is also a Finnish broadcast in Latin by YLE, Nuntii Latini.

A lot of Finns are crazy about Latin. ^^

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Cool, I'll have to tell my wife!`