QUAND LES ROSES

SALVATORE ADAMO

COMPOSITEURES: SALVATORE ADAMO; OSCAR SAINTAL & JOSEPH ELIE DE BOECK

PAYS: ITALIE+BELGIQUE

ALBUM: MES PREMIERS SUCCESS AU QUEBPEC

RECORD: DISQUES BACKSTAGE

GENRE: CHANSON FRANÇAISE

ANNEE:2020

 

       Salvatore Adamo, né le 1er novembre 1943 à Comiso en Sicile(Italie), est un chanteur et auteur-compositeur italo-belge.

      Il acquiert la nationalité belge lors de sa naturalisation au début de l'année 2019.

          Salvatore est le fils de Concetta et Antonino Adamo. En 1947, son père part travailler em Belgique dans les mines, accompagné de sa famille qui s'installe à Jemappes(Mons). Entre 1950 et 1960, la famille Adamo s’agrandit de sept enfants. À l'âge de 13 ans, le jeune Salvatore est victime d'une méningite qui le contraint à vivre une longue hospitalisation à Louvain. Son père quitte aussitôt son emploi de mineur et la famille s'installe alors à Bruxelles. Dix mois plus tard, enfin guéri, Salvatore reprend sa scolarité, et suit ensuite ses études de mathématiques, avant d'entrer à la faculté afin de devenir journaliste.

Quand les roses fleurissaient, sortaient les filles

On voyait dans tous les jardins danser les jupons

Puis les roses se fanaient, rentraient les filles

Pour passer dans leur doux écrin le temps des flocons

 

C'était charmant

C'était charmant

C'était charmant, le temps des roses

Quand on y pense, paupières closes

 

Mais les roses d'aujourd'hui sont artificielles

Et les filles vont cueillir des fleurs, été comme hiver

Elles ne supportent plus l'ennui, ces demoiselles

Elles se griment le corps et le cœur et vont prendre l'air.

YESTERDAY I HAD THE BLUES

HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES

SONGWRITER: HUFF GAMBLE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: I MISS YOU

LABEL: EPIC RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1972

 

       Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American soul and R&B vocal group. One of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s, the group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the middle of the 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976, although they performed and recorded until Melvin's death in 1997. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International. The remaining members of the Blue Notes have reunited for Soul Train Cruises in 2013, 2015, and 2017.

         I Miss You (later reissued as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) is the debut album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, released on Philadelphia International in August 1972. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff.

          The album title was changed from I Miss You to Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and given a new cover after the success of the single "If You Don't Know Me by Now". The group's roster for this album is Lloyd Parks, Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin, Lawrence Brown and Bernie Wilson. The album was arranged by Bobby Martin, Norman Harris and Thom Bell.

        The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2010 by Big Break Records.

Yesterday, yeah, I had the blues

I couldn't win, all I did was loose

But now I got everything

You made my poor heart sing

Cause I got you baby

Oh yes I do

Yesterday, yesterday, I had to cry

Oh lord, the pain was so bad, I wanted to die

But now it's just a memory

You made my poor heart sing

I'm so glad I got you baby

Oh yes I am

You fill, you fill, you fill my heart

With so much joy

I can tell, I can tell by the way you make, you make me feel

Hey, hey

You said it, I said it, over and over again

That this love we have

Has got to be for real

Yesterday I had the blues

I was a sad and lonely fool

But now I got everything

Made my poor heart sing

I'm so glad I got you baby

You came inside of my heart

And started a spark

Of love burning so hot

You said it, and I said it, over and over again

That this love we have

Has got to be for real

Yesterday I had the blues

Yesterday I had the blues

But those sad days are all over

Yesterday I had the blues

Yesterday I had the blues

But those blues, I don't see no more

Yesterday I had the blues

Yesterday I had the blues.

THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE

ROBERTA FLAKE

SONGWRITER: EWAN MACCOLL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: FIRST TAKE

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1969

 

          Roberta Cleopatra Flack(born February 10, 1937) is an American singer. She is known for her Nº 1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", "Feel Like Makin' Love"; and "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway. Flack is also noted for her influence on the subgenre of contemporary R&B called quiet storm, along with her interpretations of songs by various songwriters, such as Leonard Cohen and members of The Beatles.

             Flack was the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won in 1973 and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" won in 1974. Only U2 and Billie Eilish have repeated this feat.

          "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 folk song written by British political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who later became his wife. At the time, the couple were lovers, although MacColl was still married to his second wife, Jean Newlove. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk singers and became a major international hit for Roberta Flack in 1972, winning Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Billboard ranked it as the number one Hot 100 single of the year for 1972. 

The first time ever I saw your face

I thought the sun rose in your eyes

And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave

To the dark and the endless skies, my love

To the dark and the endless skies

 

And the first time ever I kissed your mouth

I felt the earth move in my hand

Like the trembling heart of a captive bird

That was there at my command, my love

That was there at my command, my love

 

And the first time ever I lay with you

I felt your heart so close to mine

And I knew our joy would fill the earth

And last 'til the end of time my love

And it would last 'til the end of time

 

The first time ever I saw your face

Your face, your face, your face.

COME SEE ABOUT ME

THE SUPREMES

SONGWRITER: HOLLAND-DOZIER-HOLLAND

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO

LABEL: MOTOWN

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1964

 

           The Supremes were an American female singing group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, the Supremes were the most commercially successful of Motown's acts and the most successful American vocal group, with 12 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Most of these hits were written and produced by Motown's main songwriting and production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland. At their peak in the mid-1960s, the Supremes rivaled the Beatles in worldwide popularity, and it is said that their breakthrough made it possible for future African American R&B and soul musicians to find mainstream success. Billboard ranked The Supremes as the 16th greatest Hot 100 artist of all time.

           Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown, the original group, were all from the Brewster-Douglass public housing project in Detroit. They formed the Primettes as the sister act to the Primes (with Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks, who went on to form the Temptations). Barbara Martin replaced McGlown in 1960, and the group signed with Motown the following year as The Supremes. Martin left the act in early 1962, and Ross, Ballard, and Wilson carried on as a trio.

      During the mid-1960s, the Supremes achieved mainstream success with Ross as lead singer and Holland-Dozier-Holland as its songwriting and production team. In 1967, Motown president Berry Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, and replaced Ballard with Cindy Birdsong. In 1970, Ross left to pursue a solo career and was replaced by Jean Terrell and the group reverted to being The Supremes again. During the mid-1970s, the lineup changed with Lynda Laurence, Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene joining until, after 18 years, the group disbanded in 1977.

          The song became third of five consecutively released Supremes songs to top the Billboard pop singles chart in the United States(the others are "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Stop! In the Name of Love" and "Back in My Arms Again"). It topped the chart twice, non-consecutively, being toppled by and later replacing the Beatles' "I Feel Fine" in December 1964 and January 1965. The BBC ranked "Come See About Me" at number 94 on The Top 100 Digital Motown Chart, which ranks Motown releases by their all time UK downloads and streams. 

I've been crying

'Cause I'm lonely (for you)

Smiles have all turned to tears

But tears won't wash away the fears

That you're never ever gonna return

To ease the fire that within me burns

 

It keeps me crying baby for you

Keeps me sighin' baby for you

So won't you hurry

Come on boy, see about me

(Come see about me)

See about your baby

 

I've given up my friends just for you

My friends are gone

And you have too

No peace shall I find

Until you come back

And be mine

No matter what you do or say

I'm gonna love you anyway

 

Keep on crying baby for you

I'm gonna keep sighin' baby for you

So come on hurry

Come on and see about me

(Come see about me)

See about your baby

 

Sometime's up

Sometime's down

My life's so uncertain

With you not around

From my arms you maybe out of reach

But my heart says you're here to keep

 

Keeps me crying baby for you

Keep on, keep on crying baby for you

So won't you hurry

Come on boy, see about me (come see about me)

See about you baby (come see about me)

You know I'm so lonely (come see about me)

I love you only (come see about me)

See about your baby (come see about me)

Hurry, hurry.