Welsh Band Pays Tribute to Samoa for Jumping the International Dateline
Howl Griff (Photo Credit: DanD Photography, www.howlgriff.com)
When Samoa jumped over the international dateline at the end of 2011, Howl Griff wrote a song about it. At the stroke of midnight of this year, a Samoa radio station played it, thus making the song “International Dateline” the first song played in 2013.
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