WTF!?!
Loreena Mc Kennitt's song "Sacred Sabbath" sounds to be cover of Boney M's "Rasputin"? Pretty much only piece of melody that is not included is the chorus-line Ra-ra-Rasputin, but otherwise it's very much alike.
Album cover tells a lengthy story of melody being found on a CD presenting spanish shepherd music from years 1100 - 1200. But I have a wild guess whoever put out that CD had been listening to Boney M (or it could be Boney M's composers had been listening to spanish shepherd music from 1100 - 1200 tales - if Beatles was covering russian and Simon & Garfunkel suoth-american folksongs and credited them as their own, it's possible). To my ear it's more mocking-slavic than meditterranean melody, but on the other hand I'm not expert on real folk music of either, just slightly more used to hearing slavic as well as mockingly slavic melodies.
Album cover tells a lengthy story of melody being found on a CD presenting spanish shepherd music from years 1100 - 1200. But I have a wild guess whoever put out that CD had been listening to Boney M (or it could be Boney M's composers had been listening to spanish shepherd music from 1100 - 1200 tales - if Beatles was covering russian and Simon & Garfunkel suoth-american folksongs and credited them as their own, it's possible). To my ear it's more mocking-slavic than meditterranean melody, but on the other hand I'm not expert on real folk music of either, just slightly more used to hearing slavic as well as mockingly slavic melodies.