The Sky is Closed. -- Giota Lydia

 This is one more of my favorites -- I spent the past few months deep in the YouTube mines, trying to relocate and re-excavate this.  The plot is as follows: a fellow is on a binge, sitting at the glory table between barrels #2 and #3, and clearly not at his chippiest.  The Theordarakis tune starts with a drum roll, and like a Quaker in a meeting house moved by the spirit, the squiffed dud feels compelled to stand up and  dance. 

This alone would be a great few minutes of video, but it gets better.  The camera cuts to a woman in her bedroom who is listening to the same song on a 78 rpm single and, by pure coincidence, feels compelled to drink and dance.  The rest of the video cuts back and forth between her subdued and depressed dancing and his wild and crazy antics (and note, at 1:59, the dirty looks from the bandleader right after our friend tosses a shot glass).

The fellow who posted this, whose birth name probably was not Gollum534, notes that he does not think that the woman who is singing really is Giota Lydia, instead he feels that it is an actress lip-syncing to her recording.  I agree, and hope to post a link to young Giota sometime in 2023.

This is from the movie "Betrayed Love".  


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