Çoban Yıldızı
| "Çoban Yıldızı" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Timur Selçuk | |
| Released | 1975 |
| Genre | Instrumental |
| Length | 3:12 |
| Composer | Melih Kibar |
Çoban Yıldızı is an instrumental Turkish melody composed by Melih Kibar in 1975.
In 1975, TRT, the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation ordered a jingle for the coming Eurovision Song contest national finals. (see Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975). Melih Kibar then working with Timur Selçuk composed the melody and named it Çoban Yıldızı. (In Turkish, Çoban Yıldızı means "shepherd's star" and it actually refers to the planet Venus.) He submitted his composition to Timur Selçuk. Timur Selçuk, arranged the melody and played it during the national contest. In an interview Melih Kibar said that during the first performance of the melody he was studying for his finals in the university.[1] The melody immediatelly became very popular and some people even mistook it for one of the contestants. (Actually it was an instrumental and had no chance to be a contestant.) In the following years TRT used this jingle for the Eurovision national contests. The melody was included in Melih's album Yadigar in 2001.[2]
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