Thank you very much...

More "folk music" from France:


o_O

In the room of the "bar-tabac"(1) of the "rue des Martyrs" (a well-known street in historical, central Paris)
There are night-girls waiting for the day selling pleasure
Drunkards that let their mind out at the bar
That slowly slip down the counter
Down to the floor...

(1) a "bar-tabac" is a bar/pub that also sells cigarettes.

François Hadji-Lazaro is the lead singer, composer, and as his name indicates, a French artist :cool:

For those who read French:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Hadji-Lazaro
 
AlainK said:
... ...They're cool people when you know them. Embracing and kissing each other on the cheeks with family and friends, like in Sicily... ...
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Like in Greece, too!
Have you ever been to Greece?
 
AlainK said:
... ...Among the best French artists, Claude Nougaro. Born in Toulouse, a typical south-west Catalan accent.
1987, "Nougayork"
But one of my favourite songs of his is probably "Toulouse"
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Love the French language!
I like these two songs very much!
Thanks for posting!
 
my nellie said:
I used to laugh all the time... now I seldom smile...
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I remember an old blues song by Big Bill Broonzy that said something like "now, get a smile on you face, and keep it everyday..."

Must have two reccords featuring this song somewhere down in my garage somewhere.

(...)

Found them again! (with lots of other vintage records :D )

 
AlainK said:
I remember an old blues song by Big Bill Broonzy that said something like "now, get a smile on you face, and keep it everyday..."
Must have two reccords featuring this song somewhere down in my garage somewhere.
(...)
Found them again! (with lots of other vintage records :D )
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Thank you for posting!
This is the blues that I love!
But, no smile for me since yesterday... Really I love Dolores and her unexpected pass away did make me feeling deeply sad.
On the other hand this was an opportunity for you to search and find beloved and perhaps forgotten music records, Alain.
 

If there was wall between the Balkans and the rest of Europe (what a joke!), we wouldn't be the free, happy, creative, friendly Europeans that we still are.
 
AlainK said:
If there was wall between the Balkans and the rest of Europe (what a joke!), we wouldn't be the free, happy, creative, friendly Europeans that we still are.
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:)

I can call this Greek soul....

... ...Πήρα από τα μάτια σου λίγο μαύρο χρώμα
κι έβαψα τα ρούχα μου μάνα μη με δεις
A little bit of black color I collected through your eyes
and I painted my clothes, so you don't see me mother

... ...Είναι τα τραγούδια μας ηφαίστεια που καίνε
σώματα κι αγάλματα βγάζουνε φτερά
Volcanoes burning our songs are
Bodies and statues are making wings
 
....Or is it blues?
Performing at The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a stone theatre structure located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens. The building was completed in 161 AD and then renovated in 1950.
 
Well, it has this feel that can be related to blues, although it can't be blues the way it was born in north America.

We also have singers and musicians who have this kind of feel, most of them from eastern Europe or Armenian background (we're a nation of immigrants), like Michel Jonasz or Charles Aznavour (Aznavourdjian: he pretended that his father was so drunk when he went to the declare him that he missed the last part of the name, but I tink it's a legend)

Smthg like:
"I'll wrap my heart in foil paper
My phone number to a dead line
My love songs will stay there in my piano
I would have thrown the key of the piano into the water
I'd go and see the kings of the flea-market
Sell my heart for a few pence
You knew so well how to listen to me
That my life stopped
When you left me....
I wanted to tell you that I'm waiting for you
And never mind if I lose my time
etc..."

(Michel Jonasz's uncle was a cantor in Hungary. Michel started his career singing in a night club down the road where I live ;) )


La Bohème:

 
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"La mamma" is felt to refer to by most French people as a refernce to Italy (which is stated in the lyrics).

Yet, the melody is more related to Spanish, Andalucian music (Gypsy music), and it also has actually an Eastern European (Yiddish, Gypsy) feel.

See for instance this song, sung by a famous queen of the night in the 1970s, Régine. She owned several night clubs and had a few hits in French like "Les petits papiers" (Serge gainsbourg):


(Sounds a bit cheesy now, my version is much better :cool: but the lyrics are great)

Back to "Mamma": "Régine", like most French people, is of foreign origins, Polish Jew in her case, which no one ever ever thought of, and even less meant to reproach her with. People here just don't care, and when artists draw from their cultural background, we applaud because they bring us new blood, new inspiration. They just add to our common history.

Her version of this famous yiddish song is perhaps the one I prefer. It has this feel Aznavour also has:

 
It's Friday.....


I'll soon be forty-seven......


I enrolled @WeeMac in Kindergarten at Noon......


Until we meet again, stay gigolo, me..... ;)

 
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