FOR ME... FORMIDABLE

CHARLES AZNAVOUR

COMPOSITEURES: JACQUES PLANTE & CHARLES AZNAVOUR

PAYS: FRANCE

ALBUM: FOR ME... FORMIDABLE

RECORD: BARCLAY

GENRE: CHANSON

ANNÉE: 1963

 

        Charles Aznavour (en arménien: Շառլ Ազնավուր), né sous le nom de Shahnourh Vaghinag Aznavourian (en arménien: Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնաւուրեան) le 22 mai 1924 à Paris et mort le 1er octobre 2018 à Mouriès(Bouches-du-Rhône), est un auteur-compositeur-interprète, acteur et écrivain franco-arménien.

        Au cours de sa carrière musicale, commencée dans les années 1940, il a enregistré près de mille deux cents chansons interprétées en plusieurs langues: en français, anglais, italien, espagnol, allemand, arménien(Yes kou rimet'n tchim kidi), napolitain(Napule amica mia), russe et sur la fin de sa carrière en kabyle. Il a écrit ou coécrit plus de mille chansons, que ce soit pour lui-même ou d'autres artistes.

       Il est l'un des chanteurs français les plus connus en dehors du monde francophone, décrit comme «la divinité de la pop française» par le critique musical américain Stephen Holden.

       En parallèle de son parcours musical, Charles Aznavour mène une carrière d'acteur, apparaissant dans soixante-trois longs métrages ainsi que dans des téléfilms.

       Sans renier as culture française, il représente l'Arménie dans plusieurs instances diplomatiques internationales à partir de 1995a et obtient la nationalité arménienne en 2008.

You are the one for me

Formidable

You are my love, very

Véritable

Et je voudrais pouvoir un jour enfin te le dire

Te l'écrire

Dans la langue de Shakespeare

 

My daisy

Désirable

Je suis malheureux

D'avoir si peu de mots

À t'offrir en cadeau

 

Darling I love you, love you

Darling I want you

Et puis c'est à peu près tout

You are the one for me

For me, for me, formidable

 

You are the one for me

Formidable

But how can you see me

Si minable

Je ferais mieux d'aller choisir mon vocabulaire

Chérie, pour te plaire

Dans la langue de Molière

 

Toi, tes yeux, ton nez, ta bouche

Adorables

Tu n'as pas compris

Tant pis

Ne t'en fais pas et

Viens-t'en dans mes bras

 

Darling I love you, love you

Darling I want you

Et puis le reste on s'en fout

You are the one for me

For me, formidable

 

Je me demande même

Pourquoi je t'aime

Toi qui te moques de moi et de tout

Avec ton air canaille

Canaille, canaille

How can I love you.

LA DANSE DE ZORBA

DALIDA

COMPOSITEUR: MIKIS THEODORAKIS

PAYS: FRANCE

ALBUM: LE VISAGE DE L’AMOUR

RECORD: ORLANDO PRODUCTIONS

GENRE: POP

ANNÉE: 1986

 

           Le visage de l'amour est le dernier album de Dalida sorti un an avant sa mort. C'était aussi son premier album à être réalisé au format CD. Le nom "Le visage de l'amour" est habituellement utilisé par Dalida pour décrire son public et ses fans, il a été repris par le grand artiste français Charles Trenet qui a décidé d'écrire une chanson pour Dalida portant ce nom. C'est finalement devenu le nom de son dernier album.

         Dalida n'a pas fait la promotion de l'album comme elle le faisait pour ses précédentes sorties, n'apparaissant que pour une semaine de promotion à la télévision française. Par la suite, l'album n'a pas été classé lors de sa sortie, mais a été classé juste après la mort de Dalida en 1987, entrant dans le top 20 pendant 2 semaines. L'album est une collection de chansons plutôt moroses à tristes tout en contenant un numéro de danse appelé "Mama Caraibo" et qui a ensuite été ignoré par Dalida elle-même qui n'aimait pas la qualité de la chanson. Deux singles de l'album étaient déjà sortis et fortement promus en 1985 mais n'ont pas réussi à se classer. Deux autres chansons sont sorties et mal promues lors de la sortie de l'album mais l'ensemble du projet a été un peu négligé car Dalida a tourné et sorti le film le plus important de sa carrière, une photo du réalisateur égyptien Youssef Chahine intitulée Le sixième jour. Ce film a reçu d'énormes critiques positives de la part des critiques de cinéma du monde entier, louant la performance de Dalida, mais le film n'a pas été un succès commercial. Néanmoins, ce film reste une preuve solide du talent d'actrice de Dalida et un excellent ajout à son héritage.

Oh l'Égypte, le pays est mon pays natal

C'était un pays cosmopolite

Il y avait beaucoup d'italiens, beaucoup de grecs

 

Là-bas, Zorba dans son pays

S'élance, il danse le Sirtaki

Déjà, la joie conduit ses pas

Viens, il nous tend les bras

 

Si tu veux couvrir de rose

Tout ce que tu vois en gris

Si tu es vraiment morose

Viens danser le Sirtaki

Si tu veux que disparaissent

Tes soucis et tes tracas

Si tu cherches ta jeunesse

Viens danser avec Zorba

Viens danser pour qu'on oublie

Que le jour se lèvera

 

Le vent d'orient vient d'apporter

Des notes qui flottent au ciel d'été

Déjà je sens que cet air là

Va soulever nos pas

 

Là-bas, déjà, la nuit descend

Les jours sont courts pour les amants

L'été va bientôt nous quitter

Il faut en profiter

 

Si tu es celui qui vole

Au temps des instants d'oubli

Qui se méfie des paroles

Viens danser le Sirtaki

Si tu es celui qui pense

Au milieu de ses tracas

Aux bateaux qui se balancent

Viens danser avec Zorba

Si tu es celui qui vide

Le bonheur jusqu'à la lie

En se moquant bien des rides

Viens danser le Sirtaki

Si tu es celui qui ose

Être fier d'un cœur qui bat

En regardant une rose

Viens danser avec Zorba

Viens danser avec Zorba

Viens danser avec Zorba.

FOR THE LOVER THAT I LOST

SAM SMITH

SONGWRITERS: SAM SMITH; MIKKEL STORLEER ERIKSEN; TOR ERIK HERMANSEN & JAMES NAPIER

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LOVE GOES

LABEL: CAPITOL

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2020

 

        Samuel Frederick Smith(born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. They rose to prominence in October 2012 after being featured on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart. Smith was subsequently featured on Naughty Boy's "La La La", which became a number one single in May 2013. In December 2013, they were nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2014 poll, winning both.

        Smith's debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in May 2014 on Capitol Records UK. The album's lead single, "Lay Me Down", was released prior to "La La La". The album's second single, "Money on My Mind", became Smith's second number one single in the UK. The third single, "Stay with Me", was an international success, reaching number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, while their singles "I'm Not the Only One" and "Like I Can" reached the top ten in the UK. The album won four awards, at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

          For Smith's and Jimmy Napes's song "Writing's on the Wall", the theme for the James Bond film Spectre(2015), Smith won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Smith's second studio album, The Thrill of It All, was released in November 2017 and debuted atop the UK and US album charts. The lead single, "Too Good at Goodbyes", reached number one in the UK and Australia and number four in the US. They released the single "Promises" with Calvin Harris, which peaked at number one in the UK. Smith released "Dancing with a Stranger" with Normani in 2019, which reached the top ten in the UK and the US and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards, and followed it by releasing a string of commercially successful singles "How Do You Sleep?", "To Die For", and "I'm Ready" with Demi Lovato; all of which feature on Smith's third album, Love Goes.

        Love Goes is the third studio album by English singer Sam Smith. It was released on 30 October 2020 through Capitol Records. The album was originally planned to be titled To Die For and was due for release in June 2020 but was delayed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Smith also felt it was insensitive to use the word "die" due to what many people were going through. The album won a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Music Artist category in April 2021.

Hmm

Think about your lips and the way they kiss

There's so much I really miss about you

Sitting on the beach, you were still in reach

And I haven't felt free without you

 

All of the memories feel like magic

All of the fighting seemed so sweet

All that we were, my love, was tragic

And you're the last thing that I need

 

So I lay a dozen roses for the lover that I've lost

I stand by all my choices, even though I paid the cost

Oh, all those nights, the lows and highs, I share them all with you

So I lay a dozen roses, I lay them there, I lay them there for you, mm

 

You've been on my mind, every single night

I can't visualize life without you

I've been tryna go a week without losing sleep

But there's something that I need to go through

 

All of the memories feel like magic

All of the fighting seemed so sweet

All that we were, my love, was tragic

And you're the last thing that I need

 

So I lay a dozen roses for the lover that I've lost

I stand by all my choices, even though I paid the cost

Oh, all those nights, the lows and highs, I share them all with you

So I lay a dozen roses, I lay them there, I lay them there for you, oh, oh

 

So I lay a dozen roses for the lover that I've lost

I stand by all my choices, even though I paid the cost

Oh, all those nights, lows and highs, I share them all with you

So I lay a dozen roses, I lay them there, I lay them there for you.

KING OF PAIN

STING

SONGWRITER: GORDON SUMMER

COUNTRY: U. K.

WHERE?: VIÑA DEL MAR

ALBUM: ALBUM’S FOURTH SINGLE IN THE UK

LABEL: A & M

GENRE: NEW WAVE

YEAR: 1993

 

        Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984. He launched a solo career in 1985, and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.

       As a solo musician and a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take", three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2019, he received a BMI Award for "Every Breath You Take" becoming the most-played song in radio history. In 2002, Sting received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording. In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music. He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017.

"King of Pain" is a song by English rock band The Police, released as the final single from their fifth and final studio album Synchronicity(1983). Written by the band's lead singer and bassist Sting as a post-separation song from his wife, "King of Pain" conjures up symbols of pain and relates them to a man's soul. A&M Records released "King of Pain" as the album's fourth single in the UK, while in many other countries it was released as the second single.

       The song received acclaim from music critics, many of whom praised Sting's lyrics and cited the song as a highlight from Synchronicity. It reached Nº 3 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in October 1983, and Nº 1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart for five weeks in August 1983. In the United Kingdom, it reached Nº 17 in January 1984.

       Multiple artists have covered "King of Pain". Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette covered the track for her MTV Unplugged album (1999) and released it as the second single from the album.

There's a little black spot on the sun today

It's the same old thing as yesterday

There's a black hat caught in the high tree top

There's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a little black spot on the sun today, that's my soul up there

It's the same old thing as yesterday, that's my soul up there

There's a black hat caught in a high tree top, that's my soul up there

There's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop, that's my soul up there

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall, that's my soul up there

There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall, that's my soul up there

There's a blue whale beached by a springtide's ebb, that's my soul up there

There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web, that's my soul up there

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out

There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt

There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed

There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread

There's a red fox torn by a huntmen's pack, that's my soul up there

There's a black winged gull with a broken back, that's my soul up there

There's a little black spot on the sun today

It's the same old thing as yesterday

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

King of pain

King of pain, king of pain, I always be king of pain.