Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 2, 1995 TAG: 9503020072
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: HELSINKI, FINLAND LENGTH: Short
That's not exactly Elvis Presley's way of saying ``It's Now or Never''; it's the Latin equivalent. The King's hits have been reissued, in Latin, on a compact disc to mark his 60th birthday.
``Latin is an eternal language, so what better way to immortalize a legend?''said Finnish university Professor Jukka Ammondt, who put out the CD with Finland's Eurovision choir.
The idea to sing Elvis in Latin came to Ammondt in a dream.
``I was going through a bad patch and began dreaming a lot about Elvis,'' Ammondt said. ``Elvis was always my teen-age idol and he symbolized freedom.''
Ammondt, 50, teaches literature at the University of Jyvaskyla, 165 miles north of the Finnish capital.
Ammondt's CD includes: ``I Surrender'' - ``Nunc aeternitatis''; ``Can't Help Falling in Love'' - ``Non adamare non possum''; and ``Love Me Tender'' - ``Tenere me ama.''
by CNB