LETKIS
Created on 22/05/2004Latest update on 07/09/2020
Artist: Ronnie Kranckin Orkesteri
Author: Rauno Lehtinen
Label: RCA (Finland)
Year: 1963
Finnish line dance craze based upon a local folk dance. The steps were adapted from the Madison, the Conga and the Bunny Hop as demonstrated in Dick Clark's American Bandstand tv-show a couple of years earlier. Released in some 92 countries in at least as many different versions.
Covers:
- 1963:
Vostok All Stars [studio band with author Rauno Lehtinen on sax; version re-released internationally as Letkiss under band name Finnish Letkiss All-Stars]
- 1963:
Wild Ones [Swedish band recording in Finnish]
- 1964:
- 1964:
Joe Loss [in March Of The Mods (Finnjenka Dance)]
- 1964:
Gudrun Jankiss [as Letkiss]
- 1965:
Crazy Finns [idem, also for export reasons]
- 1965:
Stig Rauno [idem; n°1 NL]
- 1965:
- 1965:
Trea Dobbs [top 10 NL as Ploem Ploem Jenka]
- 1965:
- 1966:
Pat Aulton Mob [as theme for Aussie TV pop show]
- 1967:
- 1970:
- 1977:
- 1996:
- 2000:
