LA PALOMA ADE

MIREILLE MATHIEU
COMPOSITEURES: CHRISTIAN BRUHN & GEORG BUSCHOR
PAYS: FRANCE
ALBUM: LA PALOMA ADIEU
RECORD: PHILIPS RECORD
GENRE: FOLKLORIC
ANNÉE: 1973
 
     Mireille Mathieu, née le 22 juillet 1946 à Avignon(Vaucluse), est une chanteuse française de variétés.
     Issue d'un milieu modeste, Mireille Mathieu commence sa carrière en 1965 et connaît son premier grand succès en 1966 avec Mon credo. Se façonnant un répertoire regroupant environ 1.200 chansons, interprétées en de nombreuses langues, elle devient une figure de la chanson française à l'échelle internationale.
      Parmi les chansons les plus connues de son répertoire figurent La Dernière Valse, La Paloma adieu, Paris en colère, Une histoire d'amour, Pardonne-moi ce caprice d'enfant, Bravo tu as gagné, Acropolis Adieu, Mille colombes, Santa Maria de la Mer
Wenn rot wie Rubin die Sonne im Meer versinkt
Ein Lied aus vergangener Zeit in den Herzen klingt
Das Lied, es erzählt von einem
Der ging an Bord
Und da sagte er zur Liebsten ein Abschiedswort
 
„Weine nicht, wenn ich einmal nicht wiederkehr'
Such einen andern dir
Nimm es nicht so schwer
Und eine weiße Taube fliegt dann zu dir
Bringt einen letzten Gruß übers Meer von mir“
 
La Paloma, ade (La Paloma, ade)
Wie die wogende See
So ist das Leben ein Kommen und Gehen
Und wer kann es je verstehen?
La Paloma, ade (La Paloma, ade)
Wie die wogende See
So ist das Leben ein Kommen und Gehen
Und wer kann es je verstehen?
 
Sie sah
Jeden Morgen fragend hinaus zum Kai
Sein Boot, „La Paloma“
Es war nie mehr dabei
Und eine weiße Taube zog übers Meer
Da wusste sie, es gibt keine Wiederkehr!
 
La Paloma, ade (La Paloma, ade)
Wie die wogende See
So ist das Leben ein Kommen und Gehen
Doch wer kann es je verstehen?
La Paloma, ade (La Paloma, ade)
Wie die wogende See
So ist das Leben ein Kommen und Gehen
Doch wer kann es je verstehen?

LOVE ME TENDER

ELVIS PRESLEY
SONGWRITERS: ELVIS PRESLEY & VERA MATSON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LOVE ME TENDER
LABEL: ANCIEN PRODIGE
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1956
 
              Elvis Aaron Presley(January 8, 1935– August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to both great success and initial controversy.
        Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage him for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA Victor single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. Within a year, RCA would sell ten million Presley singles. With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records, Presley became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll.
             In November 1956, Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender. Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He held few concerts, however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, Aloha from Hawaii. Years of prescription drug abuse and unhealthy eating habits severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42.
       Love Me Tender is an EP by Elvis Presley, containing the four songs from the motion picture of the same name. It was released by RCA Victor in November 1956. The EP peaked at #9 on Top Pop Albums chart with sales of over 600,000, as well as making it to #35 on the singles chart. It was simultaneously certified Gold and Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on March 27, 1992
Love me tender, love me sweet
Never let me go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so
 
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfilled
For my darling I love you
And I always will
 
Love me tender, love me long
Take me to your heart
For it's there that I belong
And we'll never part
 
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfilled
For my darling I love you
And I always will
 
Love me tender, love me dear
Tell me you are mine
I'll be yours through all the years
'Til the end of time
 
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfilled
For my darling I love you
And I always will.

A THOUSAND MILES

VANESSA CARLTON
SONGWRITER: VANESSA CARLTON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LEGALLY BLOND
LABEL: A & M RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2001
 
          Vanessa Lee Carlton(born August 16, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing in New York City bars and clubs while attending college. Three months after recording a demo with producer Peter Zizzo, she signed with A&M Records. She began recording her album, which was initially unsuccessful until Ron Fair took over.
         Her debut single, "A Thousand Miles," reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002. Her debut album, Be Not Nobody, followed and received a platinum certification in the United States. Her subsequent albums, Harmonium(2004) and Heroes & Thieves(2007), failed to match the commercial success of the first. She produced a fourth album, Rabbits on the Run(2011), independently before seeking a record label to release it. Carlton released a Christmas EP titled Hear the Bells in November 2012, and released her fifth studio album, Liberman, on October 23, 2015.
    Legally Blonde: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2001 film Legally Blonde, starring Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Luke Wilson and Victor Garber. It was released on July 13, 2001, by A&M Records.
       The album was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Original Score.
Making my way downtown
Walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound
 
Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making a way through the crowd
 
And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder
 
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight
 
It's always times like these when I think of you
And wonder if you ever think of me
'Cause everything's so wrong, and I don't belong
Living in your precious memory
 
'Cause I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder
 
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
Oh, 'cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight
 
And I, I don't wanna let you know
I, I drown in your memory
I, I don't wanna let this go
I, I don't
 
Making my way downtown
Walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound
 
Staring blankly ahead, just making my way
Making a way through the crowd
 
And I still need you
And I still miss you
And now I wonder
 
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass us by?
'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you, oh-oh
 
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you
If I could just hold you tonight. 

SO LONG, FAREWELL

JULIE ANDREWS
SONGWRITERS: RICHARD RODGERS & OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE SOUND OF MUSIC
LABEL: ARGYLE ENTERPRISES INC.
GENRE: SOUNDTRACK
YEAR: 1965
 
          Dame Julie Andrews DBE(born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards. Andrews was made a Disney Legend in 1991, and has been honoured with an Honorary Golden Lion as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2000, Andrews was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts.
              Andrews, a child actress and singer, appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend(1954). Billed as "Britain's youngest prima donna", she rose to prominence starring in Broadway musicals such as My Fair Lady(1956) playing Eliza Doolittle and Camelot(1960) playing Queen Guinevere. On 31 March 1957, Andrews starred in the premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's written-for-television musical Cinderella, a live, colour CBS network broadcast seen by over 100 million viewers. Andrews made her feature film debut in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins(1964) and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. The following year she starred in the musical film The Sound of Music(1965), playing Maria von Trapp and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
            The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and, together with the children, finds a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis.
           Filming took place from March to September 1964 in Los Angeles and Salzburg. The Sound of Music was released on March 2, 1965, in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. Although initial critical response to the film was mixed, it was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office film after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing Gone with the Wind—and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries. Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286 million.
        The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Wise's second pair of both awards, the first being from the 1961 film West Side Story. The film also received two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. In 1998, the American Film Institute(AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the fifty-fifth greatest American film of all time, and the fourth greatest film musical. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
There's a sad sort of clanking
From the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too.
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping up to say cukoo!
Cukoo! Cukoo!
Regretfully they tell us
But firmly they compel us
To say goodbye to you.
So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Goodnight
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Adeiu
Adeiu Adeiu
To yieu and yieu and yieu
So long
Farewell
Au 'voire
Aufwiedersehn
I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye
Goodbye!
I'm glad to go I cannot tell a lie
I flit I float
I fleetly flee I fly
The sun has gone to bed and so must I
So long Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Goodbye—
Goodbye...
Goodbye...
Goodbye...
Goodbye...