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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 Ne Me Quitte Pas English Subtitles Posted by: lightning494
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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Jacques Brel La Chanson de Jacky English Subtitles Posted by: lightning494
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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Charles Aznavour La Mama English subtitles Posted by: lightning494
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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Jacques Brel L'Ivrogne English Subtitles Posted by: lightning494
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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Jacques Brel Le Moribond English Subtitles Posted by: lightning494
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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Edith Piaf La Foule English Subtitles Posted by: lightning494
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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Claude François Comme D'Habitude My Way English Subtitles Posted by: lightning494
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 Comme Ils Disent French & English subtitles Posted by: lightning494
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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Ernie Kovacs Miklos Molnar Howdee Dee Dee Show Posted by: lightning494
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 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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Jacques Brel Une Isle English subtitles Posted by: lightning494
Video duration: 212 seconds Dream of an island paradise by a very overworked and overstressed performer. From Sa Dernière Tournée. Related: 60s, aznavour, bob, brassens, brel, chanson, cohen, dylan, edith, island, jacques, leonard, marquesas, piaf, polynesia, sailing |
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