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Serge Gainsbourg Brigitte Bardot Bonnie and Clyde English
Posted by: lightning494
Video duration: 251 seconds
Story of America's most romanticized depression era (1930's) criminals made even more glamorous by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. Thanks to Ema of Rennes, France for help with this translation.
Related: american, bardot, bonnie, brigitte, chanson, clyde, crime, gainsbourg, robbery, serge
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Jacques Brel La Chanson de Jacky English Subtitles
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Video duration: 193 seconds
From 1965, just after the peak of his career, Jacques envisions his future and recalls his past. In his childhood days he was called Jacky, a little fellow who wished he could be one of those people who gets by on good looks-- handsome and stupid at the same time. The facial expressions that go with this are epic.
Related: 60s, aznavour, bob, brassens, brel, chanson, childhood, cohen, dylan, edith, insecurity, jacques, leonard, piaf, youth
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Jacques Brel Ne Me Quitte Pas English Subtitles
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Video duration: 227 seconds
Early performance of Brel's most often covered song, known in English by Rod McKuen's adaptation "If You Go Away." English subtitles are a literal translation of the lyric as Brel intended it. Not a love song, Brel tells us, but a song of lacheté, weakness, though most would disagree.
Related: 60s, aznavour, bob, brassens, break, brel, chanson, cohen, dylan, edith, jacques, leonard, love, piaf, romance, up
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Edith Piaf La Foule English Subtitles
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Video duration: 173 seconds
Piaf found the music for this song in Peru when on tour and had the songwriter Michel Rivgauche write French lyrics for it. She performs it with passion and total identification, as if it she were living it. Thanks to Ema of Rennes, France for
help with this translation.
Related: 50s, chanson, edith, france, french, monnot, montand, moustaki, paris, piaf, waltz, yves
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Jacques Brel Le Moribond English Subtitles
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Video duration: 178 seconds
1961 Song about a dying man's farewell to his friend, his priest, his unfaithful wife and her lover. Mawkishly adapted by Terry Jacks in English as Seasons in the Sun, widely covered by indies and punk bands in America and the UK, notably Kurt Cobain's Nirvana, Pearls before Swine, Blink -182.
Related: 60s, aznavour, bob, brassens, brel, chanson, cohen, death, dylan, edith, infidelity, jacques, leonard, love, marriage, piaf
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Jacques Brel L'Ivrogne English Subtitles
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Video duration: 232 seconds
Brel delves into the psychology of an alcoholic with this dramatic portrayal of self-hatred, social rejection and alcohol abuse.
Related: 60s, alcoholism, aznavour, bob, brassens, brel, chanson, cohen, dylan, greco, jacques, joni, juliette, leonard, mitchell, piaf
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Claude François Comme D'Habitude My Way English Subtitles
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Video duration: 241 seconds
The original of the American hit song My Way words by Paul Anka, covered by Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley was this French song about a relationship gone wrong, deteriorated into pretending. Words and music by Gilles Thibault, Jacques Revaux and Claude François, 1968.
Related: 60s, anka, chanson, claude, comme, dhabitude, elvis, frank, françois, love, my, paul, pop, presly, sinatra, way
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Charles Aznavour La Mama English subtitles
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Video duration: 229 seconds
Aznavour's moving portrait of the deathbed scene of a beloved Italian mother combines realism, sentiment and religion to make one of his most enduring songs. This performance from his later years seems to be the most intense. Aznavour was the only French chansonnier to be played by Bob Dylan, who knows no French, on his Theme Time Radio . Ray Charles covered this song in the US.
Related: aznavour, brassens, brel, chanson, charles, cohen, death, dylan, jacques, joni, leonard, mitchell, mother, music, paul, simon, world
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Ernie Kovacs Miklos Molnar Howdee Dee Dee Show
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Video duration: 340 seconds
Fans of the 1950's Howdy Doody Show, one of TV's earliest children's shows--
http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=WJ-IPX pvRaU
will appreciate this satire by '50s comic genius Ernie Kovacs
Related: 50s, childrens, doody, ernie, howdy, hungarian, kovacs, show, sketch, spoof, tv
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Charles Aznavour Comme Ils Disent French & English subtitles
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Video duration: 290 seconds
In 1972 Charles Aznavour stunned France with this realist chanson about a transvestite dancer, his gay life and sad loves. It has since then become a classic, sung in English as " What Makes a Man a Man."
Posted with French and English subtitles for educational purposes. Thanks again to philipechek of YouTube and Paris for consultation and background information about this song.
Related: 70s, aznavour, brassens, brel, chanson, charles, cohen, dylan, gay, homosexual, jacques, leonard, paul, piaf, simon, transvestite
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Georges Brassens Il N'y a Pas D'Amour Heureux English Subs
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Video duration: 154 seconds
"Poem by Louis Aragon set to music and performed by Georges Brassens. This song was recently used as the finale to the camp murder mystery Eight Woman and performed by Nina Simone on her final album, A Single Woman."
Related: 60s, aragon, brassens, brel, chanson, cohen, divorce, georges, jacques, leonard, love, music, nina, sadness, simone, world
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Charles Trenet La Mer English subtitles
Posted by: lightning494
Video duration: 183 seconds
The source for Bobby Darin's 1960 hit Beyond the Sea was a song by the archetypal French chansonnier Charles Trenet, La Mer, written in 1945. What it lost in poetry when it washed up on American shores, it gained in swing, and was a long standing hit on both continents. #2 on the list of 100 Les Plus Belles Chansons after Brel's Ne Me Quitte Pas
Related: 40s, aznavour, beyond, bobby, brassens, brel, chanson, charles, darin, jacques, piaf, sea, swing, the, trenet
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