Who makes your heart sing II

Michel Simon and Serge Gainsbourg sing l'Herbe tendre

French text:

D'avoir vécu le cul
Dans l'herbe tendre
Et d'avoir su m'étendre
Quand j'étais amoureux
J'aurais vécu obscur
Et sans esclandre
En gardant le coeur tendre
Le long des jours heureux
Pour faire des vieux os
Faut y aller mollo
Pas abuser de rien pour aller loin
Pas se casser le cul
Savoir se fendre
De quelques baisers tendres
Sous un coin de ciel bleu
Pas se casser le cul
Savoir se fendre
De quelques baisers tendres
Sous un coin de ciel bleu.

Vague approximation: Because I lived with my ass in the young grass, because I knew to lie down when I was in love, I managed obscurely, without scandal, keeping my heart gentle during the happy days. Old age must be reached slowly, nothing abused to get that far, no balls-breaking business. Have the wisdom to give some tender kisses under a corner of the blue sky.

It's amazing how difficult it is to translate properly something this simple. Beginning with the tense. In French there's an ambiguity--it could be a description of wisdom applied or of wisdom one has FAILED to apply. English doesn't do past infinitive...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg

(I helped making the video: I'm prejudiced).

Sentimental journey, the lead singer killed himself a decade ago (he had very good reasons). He used to be a friend of mine : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTVYWl64M1Q

Again : a Dutch one (but lyrics in English) - hope this one does show across the pond.

Same artist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERWW1oV_RQ8

You did a vid for Peter Gabriel?! You cool, cool person, you.

I like Herman very much. And what a great face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTTAPCUtbc8

You're a garden gnome when the bullet hits the bone? Say what? ;-)

> 4: I merely helped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zFsy9VIdM

No, I never met them. Looks like Tina Weymouth isn't having a good time, doesn't it? Maybe she was just totally concentrated though.

nice

And as an Alice addict I obviously can't miss out on Jefferson Airplane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl89g2SwMh4

By the way, apparently it's Albert Hofmann's birthday today - or yesterday, depending on time zone. Enjoy, but don't get stuck.

dance

> 8 / 10: Lovely jubbly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyGOBGwnKYQ

Sunday night mary magdalen thoughts....

http://youtu.be/wP0pFH_EiTo

Super sexy song.

Mina: L'importante è finire

A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English King Richard III.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDqqFWvwJJw

Or there's the video version, impressive, but audience laughter an intrusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZtkmHXhF74

I played this over and over when i lost someone i loved, it found me again just.

http://youtu.be/5cqy4-vCo0M

America's first couple (ie, during the last millennium, of course):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnV60-TKiyw

Aaron Neville and some others singing Kurt Weill's Oh Heavenly Salvation

Aaaaaaand... a picker-upper for the lovelorn!

Aaron Neville ~ Everybody Plays the Fool (1991)

Rock it!

(Touchstone: Bulleh Shaah)

Thank you, Lola. I play Wah Wah Ramz on a sunday morning if i have guests around, it gets them out of bed. For gentler guests i use Morning Has Broken.

I'm feeling nostalgic, I guess (both the singer and the woman you see in that video used to be friends of mine):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuqRmDholXI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU

Don't take me very seriously though - I don't. ;-)

Le texte est plus que poignant... Je n'aurais pas pu mieux traduire, et pourtant c'est telment simple!

I came across a weird piece of music, and thought of you guys...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4BJ3wng6Mk

Ritus, by Wolf Janscha, performed by Supersonus, the European Resonance Ensemble

So great.

Marc Almond, What makes a man a man (original song, Charles Aznavour, "Comme ils disent", 1972).

Found again--a lost song by Kurt Weill, previously only remembered by Lotte Lenya:

“Lied vom weissen Käse” (“Song of the White Cheese”), sung by Ute Gfrerer and accompanied by Shane Schag.

Lucero - muy simpatico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPbfnsue56E

Very nice!

Imanol Lertxundi and chorus: Udaberrian Txoriak (Like the Birds In Spring) (1953)

"The anchovies will come when there are some; we’ll make money next year."

Ha.

Iggy Pop - Isolation (1987)

Love Randy Newman.

Randy Newman - Stay Away

Death haunts me... life frightens me...

Colette Magny - La mort me hante

Maybe there's a theme, maybe there isn't...

Nimrod Workman: Oh Death (1983)

ok there's a theme

Boyd Rivers: You Got to Take Sick and Die (1978)

Olga Demeter-Charskaya performs her own composition with sister Nina, in the late 1980s when they were around 70-80 years old--but FIERCE!

Цыганская чечётка / Gypsy step

I am reminded of my grandmother, in her 70s, tangoing imposingly up and down the living room with my little brother while I played Albeniz's Tango in D on the piano.

Have you seen this one (Marta Gonzalez, New York City Ballet)?

https://youtu.be/owb1uWDg3QM

That brought tears to my eyes. Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnFYR8oHLy0

Listen to the Reed Flute (from the Mahnawi of Rumi), sung by Ayeda Husain Naqvi

This is wonderful--the entire album of Joseph Kosma's songs issued on Decca in their "Entartete Musik" series (dedicated to the music proscribed by the Nazis as "degenerate"):

The channel is the baritone singer's own:

Kosma : Les Feuilles Mortes

Carco's louche characters poeticized but without sentimentality:

Jésus la Caille - Bonjour Paris

Jésus la Caille est un garçon
qu'on prend souvent pour une fille
qu'on prend souvent pour une fille.
On dit de lui: Qu'elle est gentille!
Qu'il a du charme à sa façon!
Filles, garçons vont bien ensemble
ce qui manque à l'un, l'autre l'a.

Jesus-la-Caille is a boy who's often taken for a girl... they say of him: How cute is she! He's charming in a way... Girls, boys go together well, what one lacks the other has...

This chap deserves more love... check out the wooden musical computer, girls and boys! :)

Célestina

bye bye...

Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love

>53 LolaWalser: :-(

:'-(

>56 LolaWalser: I love the subtitles: "SINGING IN GERMAN"!

hello!!

>58 millie52:

What up, Millie?

>57 MyopicBookworm:

Ha, really? Aww... here's my quick 'n' dirty translation:

It'll be all right again
Even if it doesn't seem so
These past times have been very
Difficult

It'll be all right again
The pain will subside
And you will see
It'll be all right again
It'll be all right again

Everything tanked
Massively
It was, honestly,
The bottom

Sometimes we're up and sometimes down
Take it as it comes
In life as in long distance running
Don't give up

repeat 1 & 2nd

Asmahan -- Ya Habibi Taala (Come my darling)

English translation:

http://www.arabicmusictranslation.com/2007/05/asmahan-come-my-darling-ya-habibi-...