Narrator Antero Mertaranna and A-type Wonderful, Lions, wonderful! -song exceeded two million streams. In honor of that, Mertaranta was surprised by C More before the match between Finland and France.
Commentator Antero Mertaranta was surprised by C Morella in the studio broadcast of the World Hockey Championships before the Finland-France match.
C More’s studio host Teemu Niikko showed the camera a board with a mysterious dark figure in the middle of hockey sticks.
Niikko asked Mertaranna, who was sitting in the commentary room, if she knew which painting it was.
– You know that my eyepieces are so minus two that I can see something up to there. That resembles something like a bump, but I don’t know what it is, Mertaranta was amazed.
Niikko revealed that A-type and Antero Mertaranna’s 1999 single Ihanaa, Leijonat, ihanaa! has crossed the two million mark in the streaming service.
– That is, the golden limit. Congratulations, Niikko congratulated.
The song once sold platinum. Mertaranta had a story to tell about it.
– Oh thank you! Back in 1999, when we went to pop a platinum record, the (A-type) guys drove it around Kaivopuisto in a limousine. A person from Meikälä came with an old tractor from home to pick up a platinum record.
– Greetings to the boys. All the money is gone. I hope you too, Mertaranta sculpted.
Next, Mertaranta told how it feels to be a singer with a gold record.
– Of course, it feels like honey. This has nothing to do with being Turkic, but it feels like honey when you actually become a singer with a gold record.
– There is so much musical background that I dare to walk with my head held high, even though I have done all the stunts in the world.
Yleisradio’s director is behind the song Anssi Nyberg. Nyberg has told For Länsiväylä (you switch to another service) that in his time he had collected the commentary clips of Mertaranta and that he had thought about the musicians, Janne Kettusen and Torsti Spoof with, could you make a song out of them.
– It was not long ago when I had sent “Antsa” stuff to the boys and a real disco jingle had been made for the counter ball.
Nyberg revealed to the newspaper that Mertaranta, who was working at Yleisradio at the time, alienated the public significantly more than now.
– Antsa told me very seriously that this would not be played anywhere.
– Antsa has a love-hate relationship with it, Nyberg told Länsiväylä a year ago.