Talk:Bimbo Jet

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This page is relevant since Bimbo Jet has popularized a song to the extent that it is widely known in popular culture. A song that has been featured in the movies Police Academy. When I travelled in Europe during Octuber of 2007, I heard it three times in Spain and Germany and was very surprised a wiki page did not exist. I decided to create this page as the song is experiencing a rebirth of popularity.

As part of my research for creating this page, I was very surprised to discover that Bimbo Jet's song, El Bimbo, was actually created three to four years earlier by Ahmad Zahir, a very little known fact by the larger of society. I feel it is important for other people to step up and improve the catalog of knowledge surrounding Bimbo Jet and their songs El Bimbo and La Balanga.

While El Bimbo as a song probably deserves it's own page, I will watch this page develop and hope somebody takes that effort. I should mention that the original Ahmad Zahir version is featured in the recent film, The Kite Runner.

Tim Legg Dec 17, 2007