Halloween Lips or Lips of Desire?

Source: http://vi.sualize.us/view/kallini2002/cb417e230b3928e3620ba56436f5c793/

Tino Rossi \”Besame Mucho\” 1945

Kaliente

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWEOBWiD42o&feature=related

Americo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKNm3B0Ss4

Source: http://thumb2.visualizeus.com/thumbs/08/10/02/

The Song

The cry of the wife of the Greek in Southern Italy that has to emigrate to feed his family. A song in mixed Italian and Greek lingo of Southern Italy.

Writer & composer:                   Franco Corgliano.

Orchestration:                       Savvas Savva

Artist:                                     Lenia1

CD:                                         My musical voyages.

source: http://static.open.salon.com/files/woman-smoking1259336894.jpg 

Love & Tobacco. A Perfect reason to quit smoking.

“I tampakera”
Music: Iosif Ritsiardis
Lyrics: M. Traiforos, G. Giannakopoulos

I came across this song, as I usually come across anything.  I stumble upon it.  I loved it.  It took me awhile to discover the lyrics translation and now I love the song even more.

The first clip is my favourite:

Fritzilia Martha (Such drama & agony in her performance!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phnfVQD2z0o&feature=related 

Oleg Pogudin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa-P3ZFYv3k&feature=related

Μαρινέλλα – Η ΤΑΜΠΑΚΙΕΡΑ (English Subtitles)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63_NKnUUneg

Lyrics

Why did you give me this cigarette case?

Since you have thought slyly about me

And basically you want to keep me away

Why did you give me this cigarette case?

And basically you want to keep me away

Why did you give me this cigarette case?

I should not have taken your cigarette case

Because I see it and fall into deep melancholy

And I even think about quitting smoking

So that I can send you away from my mind for just a second

And I even think about quitting smoking

So that I can send you away from my mind for just a second

You never let me see a happy day

And you always liked to torture me

And maybe you gave me this cigarette case

So that smoking would also turn into nightmare for me

And maybe you gave me this cigarette case

So that smoking would also turn into nightmare for me

And now with autotranslator (try to make sense out of it!!!)

Τι μου τη χάρισες αυτή τη ταμπακέρα
αφού για μένα πονηρά έχεις σκεφτεί
κι αφού στο βάθος θέλεις να με κάνεις πέρα
τι μου τη χάρισες την ταμπακέρα αυτή;

Ποτέ δε μ’ άφησες να δω μιαν άσπρη μέρα
και σου γουστάρει πάντα να με τυραννάς
κι ίσως μου χάρισες αυτή την ταμπακέρα
για να μου γίνει και το κάπνισμα βραχνάς.

Την ταμπακέρα σου δεν έπρεπε να πάρω
γιατί τη βλέπω και βαθιά μελαγχολώ
μέχρι που σκέφτομαι να κόψω το τσιγάρο
για να σε διώξω μια στιγμή απ’ το μυαλό.

What gave me a cigarette roller

after this evil for me because you think too deep in

You want to do beyond

what gave me the cigarette roller that?

Never leave me to see an white day

and still likes you tormenting me

and perhaps I gave this to my cigarette case

made and smoking nightmare.

The cigarette case you should not get

why I see and deeply sadden to think

that to quit smoking in order

to chase away a moment from your mind

David Bisbal – Bulería

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTm-Q43ZQek&feature=channel

Note: Since I don’t speak Spanish, the translation is done with the online translator, so it is lame, my apologies.

Edith Piaf – Sous le ciel de Paris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOXzGtlLGgw

Mireille Mathieu – Der Pariser Tango

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78a2NYmgGZI&feature=related

Das ist der Pariser Tango,

Monsieur,

ganz Paris tanzt diesen Tango,

Monsieur,

und ich zeige ihnen gern diesen Schritt

denn ich weiß sie machen mit.

Tango

Pariser Tango

ich schenke dir mein Herz beim Tango

die Nacht ist blau und süß der Wein

wir tanzen in das Glück hinein

Bei diesem Tango.

Pariser Tango

Ich wünsche mir

es bleibt noch lang so

ein Leben lang so schön wie heut’

mit dir und mir für alle Zeit.

Pariser Tango, Pariser Tango

In einem kleinen Cafe

nah bei den Champs Elysees

da spielt Robert schon seit Jahren

Schlager

die nie welche waren.

Er hat sie selber gemacht

aber man hat nur gelacht

dann spielte er ein Lied

und es geschah ein Wunder:

Das ist der Pariser Tango,

Monsieur,

ganz Paris tanzt diesen Tango,

Monsieur,

und ich zeige ihnen gern diesen Schritt

denn ich weiß sie machen mit.

Bei einem Tango

Pariser Tango

ich schenke dir mein Herz beim Tango

die Nacht ist blau und süß der Wein

wir tanzen in das Glück hinein

Bei diesem Tango.

Pariser Tango

Ich wünsche mir

es bleibt noch lang so

ein Leben lang so schön wie heut’

mit dir und mir für alle Zeit.

è l’eterna dolce storia dell’amor.

For my Italian friend and for everybody else who loves…  Music, at least!  Should I not I forget him by now?  But then again, why? Love is beautiful, even though it is still unrequited.

Canzone da due soldi

Why did I not pick Italians singing this song?  Well, I don’t know, you can go ahead and listen to different singers and make your own choice.  After all, anything we come across with is just an opportunity to go in a certain direction.

I love this song and found a very good link with the lyrics and translation into Russian.

http://blog.meta.ua/~Fiva/posts/@50998/comment/@2073049/#see_2073049

The rest is up to you, guys, whatever language you speak.  Hopefully, you don’t speak just ONE.

Nelle vecchie strade del quartiere più affollato,

verso mezzogiorno, oppure al tramontar,

una fisarmonica e un violino un pò stonato

capita assai spesso d’ascoltar.

 

Accompagnano

un cantante d’occasione,

che per poco o niente

canta una canzon.

 

È una semplice canzone da due soldi

che si canta per le strade dei sobborghi

e risveglia in fondo all’anima i ricordi

d’una dolce e spensierata gioventù.

 

È una semplice canzone per il cuore,

poche note con le solite parole,

ma c’è sempre chi l’ascolta e si commuove

ripensando al tempo che non torna più.

 

Si vede aprire piano pian

qualche finestra da lontan,

c’è chi s’affaccia ad ascoltar

e sospirar.

 

È una semplice canzone da due soldi

che si canta per le strade dei sobborghi,

per chi sogna, per chi spera, per chi ama,

è l’eterna dolce storia dell’amor.

 

Il suo motivo all’indoman,

seicento orchestre suoneran.

Vestito di mondanità,

ovunque andrà.

 

Ma la semplice canzone da due soldi

finirà per ritornare dove è nata,

per la strada, su una bocca innamorata

che cantando sogna la felicità.

I decided, at least for a while, to follow Goethe’s advice.

Quote of the month.

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Making a list:

Ö        A Little Song

Ö        A Poem

Ö        A Picture

Ö        A Few Reasonable Words

I love songs and I will start with Batuka“Dame Fuego”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6kHDBqpVCA

A little analysis.

A song with lyrics already contains a poem, because that is what lyrics are.  Lyrics contain a few reasonable words, or so I hope.  This particular song is in Spanish, that I don’t speak, but I have an online translator.  Translations more often than not are lame or sound quite lame.  But I am trying to extract the reason or meaning, or at least remember a few Spanish words.

A word for today.

“Dame fuego, dame el fuego de tu Corazon”

(Give me fire give me the fire of your heart)

One thing is missing – a Picture.  Or is it?  The video clip is a picture, so homework is done.

Don’t ask me, if I am nuts.  Because the answer is… I will give you multiple choice

1. Yes
2. No
3. Maybe
4. Does it matter?
5. All of the above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Onq-86O84