My father — who reads the Corner — writes:

The best Romanian song is titled, very appropriately, “Romania.” The version that everybody knows is by Lebedeff, the great Jewish Romanian singer (long dead). The lyrics consist primarily of one word, “Romania,” although it does have breaks in it for rapid-fire segments (as in Largo al factotum in “Figaro”). It is very evocative and could compete with Ma Ia Huu (or whatever its name is).