2020.09.27 14:22
https://youtu.be/3Gjd7xZmLLc?list=RD3Gjd7xZmLLc
Damia - Sombre Dimanche Gloomy Sunday French version.mp3
https://youtu.be/b2KGRC-FKtA
Juliette Gréco - Bonjour Tristesse (Remastered).mp3
https://youtu.be/PSGKFXz6ZLs
Juliette Gréco - Coin de rue.mp3
https://youtu.be/n9Sfx3c7fR0
Juliette Gréco - Les feuilles mortes - Paroles (Lyrics).mp3
https://youtu.be/biBWXbRMexI
Juliette Gréco - Romance.mp3
https://youtu.be/LcEKzT8EJm4
Juliette Gréco - Sous le ciel de Paris ( 1951 ).mp3
I felt vaguely, perhaps trying not to bring to my consciousness level, these days, but deep inside my heart, I started to feel such sadness to notice so many peoples I loved dearly disappearing one after one quietly through these many years like pretending not to hurt me much. But I know my heart gets empty much faster than I wished all along whenever I should send loved one, fully aware of my turn sooner or later, and helplessly filling with such emptiness and sadness.
Recent news on Juliette Greco, my most beloved Chanson singer since my high school days, who passed away last week on age 92 brought so many memories back in my younger days and made me recognize not a single singer, indeed, remained no longer but all gone now to join to the rest deep in my memories.
Indeed, I encountered Chanson for the first time in my high school days and Juliette Greco was the first one, before Edith Piaf or Yves Montand, to make me fall in love with chanson. Especially those 5 songs Greco sang- Romance, Sous le Ciel de Paris, Coin de rue, Les Feuilles Mortes, and Bonjour Tristesse - remained my most favorite Chanson together with Damia’s Sombre Dimanche (Gloomy Sunday French version) all my life.
I decided to put off all the works, three more reviews of the manuscripts for the journals I had to finish this week, all day today, Sunday, listening to those favorite chansons I neglected through years, especially those few, again, again, and again, with special permission by my wife and in case any who wishes to share such gloomy Sunday with old chansons, I humbly include/attach them as below to enjoy together.
Gloomy Sunday,
BB Lee
P.S. By the way, many would remember ‘Gloomy Sunday’ as a signature song for Billi Holiday but I learned this song as a chanson, sung by Damia, for the first time through a 45-rpm donut disc record I found at 동대문 시장 when I was in the first year at the high school and listened all day and all night and eventually the disc was completely worn out to replace with regular LP disc. But I didn’t know then it was more well known as ‘Suicide Song’ among Europeans and composed by a Hungarian composer.
2020.09.27 14:40
2020.09.27 15:50
"봄은 돌아와 꽃은 피어도/그대 가버린 쓸쓸한 방안에...."로 시작되는
글루미 산데이는 첫줄부터 일제하에서 상처받은 이 땅의 젊은이들을
매혹시켰다. 휘가로의 문은 방음을 위해 두꺼운 나무로 되어 있었다.
그문이 잠깐식 열릴때마다 노래가 밖으로 새어 나왔는 데, 그때마다 늘
다이마의 글루미 산데이가 흘러 나왔다. 이 노래는 나중에 적성국 노래라고
해서 .. 금지되고 말았지만, 이때 당시 휘가로의 추억에 대해 명동백작 이봉구
는 다음과같이 묘사 했다.
"다미아(Damia)의 노래가 명동거리 다방에서 울려나오기 시작한 것은 1930년대
후반기였다. 1938년경, 우리는 명동의 휘가로에서 다미아 의 샹송을 듣고 흥분했다.
진종일 비가 쏟아지는 어두운 날, 흐느껴 울부짖는 듯한 다미아의 노래는 고전음악감상애
점잔을 빼고 있는 나를 완전히 흔들어버리고 말았다. 더욱이 다미아의 글루미 산데이는
무서운 노래였다. ...... 어두운 일요일은 첫줄 부터 상처받은 이땅의 젊은 정신, 보헤미안
들을 사정없이 매혹 했다. 아침부터 밤중까지 연속해 듣고 함께 소리처 불렀다."
- 한국 근대사 산책, 제9권, 강준만 지음에서
Damia 어두운 일요일
*비데오 바로 아래 오른쪽끝에 < 사인을 클릭 하시면 해설이 자세히 나옵니다.
2020.09.27 18:42
What an ignorance, I had, Dr. Ohn, to make me feel embarrassed! I had no idea that this song was also popular in Korea among the intellectuals in '30 era.
Good to know more about the Korean side of the story involved in this gloomy song, Dr. Ohn, thanks.
The sad part of the story was the composer himself as well as suicide by jumping from the building to kill himself later besides so many young people with despairs.
BB Lee
2020.09.29 14:30
Dr. Ohn, based on your comment on '휘가로' and '명동백작 이봉구' I looked through Korean Google as you previously recommended and I became so nostalgic with more story along '명동' as the center of Korean(?) Bohemians we roamed around in 예과시절. Indeed, many old photos brought such fresh memories including the street where 'Alliance Française' located- I went to the evening class to study French given by 서울대 불문과 이휘영 교수 and his junior associate 김붕구교수 for full one year soon after I get in the premed school - and the 다방 쎄씨봉 named after the chanson C'est Si Bon we spent so much time near to 국립극장. Yes, we enjoyed 명동 so much including the song C'est Si Bon sung by Eartha Kitt (https://youtu.be/NWCo5ex40IQ) way before we got Yves Montand's 'C'est Si Bon'(https://youtu.be/RjqlLgycDRs).
Good old days!!!!
BB Lee
P.S. I attach the lyrics of C'est Si Bon as below;
C'est si bon
De partir n'importe où
Bras dessus, bras dessous
En chantant des chansons
C'est si bon
De se dire des mots doux
De petits riens du tout
Mais qui en disent long
En voyant notre mine ravie
Les passants dans la rue nous envient
C'est si bon
De guetter dans ses yeux
Un espoir merveilleux
Qui donne le frisson
C'est si bon
Ces petites sensations
Ça vaut mieux qu'un million
C'est tellement, tellement bon
(C'est bon, c'est bon)
Mmm, c'est bon
Voilà, c'est bon
Les passants dans la rue
Bras dessus, bras dessous
En chantant des chansons
Quel espoir merveilleux
Mmm, c'est bon
Je cherche un millionnaire
Avec des grands "Cadillac car"
"Mink coats"
Des bijoux jusqu'au cou, tu sais?
Mmm, c'est bon
Cette petites sensations
Ou peut-être quelqu'un
Avec un petit yacht, no?
Ah, c'est bon
C'est bon, c'est bon
Vous savez bien que j'attendrais
Quelqu'un qui pourrait m'apporter
Beaucoup de "loot"
Ce soir? Demain? La semaine prochaine?
N'importe quand
Mmm, c'est bon, si bon
Il sera très. Crazy, no?
Voilà, c'est tellement bon!
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I would like to share the Lyrics of Gloomy Sunday as below together with the story on Wikipedia
Lyrics
Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless
Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless
Little white flowers will never awaken you
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts of ever returning you
Wouldn’t they be angry if I thought of joining you?
Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy is Sunday, with shadows I spend it all
My heart and I have decided to end it all
Soon there’ll be candles and prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep, let them know that I’m glad to go
Death is no dream, for in death I’m caressin’ you
With the last breath of my soul, I’ll be blessin’ you
Gloomy Sunday
Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep in the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope that my dream never haunted you
My heart is tellin’ you how much I wanted you
Gloomy Sunday
Wikipedia
“Gloomy Sunday” is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933, as “Vége a Világnak” (“End of the world”).
It became well known throughout much of the English-speaking world after the release of a version by Billie Holiday in 1941. Lewis’s lyrics referred to suicide, and the record label described it as the “Hungarian Suicide Song”. There is a recurring urban legend that claims that many people committed suicide with this song playing.
Press reports in the 1930s associated at least 19 suicides, both in Hungary and America, with “Gloomy Sunday”, but most of the deaths supposedly linked to it are difficult to verify. The urban legend appears to be, for the most part, simply an embellishment of the high number of Hungarian suicides that occurred in the decade when the song was composed due to other factors such as famine and poverty. No studies have drawn a clear link between the song and suicide.
The BBC banned Billie Holiday’s version of the song from being broadcast, as being detrimental to wartime morale, but allowed performances of instrumental versions. However, there is little evidence of any other radio bans; the BBC’s ban was lifted by 2002.
BB Lee