Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

In short, the story of the creation of the song is as follows: in 1933 it was written by a Hungarian composer and pianist with a simple Hungarian named-familia Rezső Seress, on the verses of the Hungarian poet László Jávor. The song was called "szomoró vasárnap". In the 1935-36s, it was translated into French, Russian and English. Among her performers, Billy Holliday, Sarah Vogan, Rey Charles, Lidia Lanch, Elvis Costello, Serge Ginsburg, Byork, Kronos Quartet, Sarah Brightman, Portishead, Mark Almond and, of course, Diamanda Galas.

This song was written in 1933 in the city of Budapest by two young people, poet Laszlo Yavor and a self-taught musician cutting Shelesh. Szomoró vasárnap, or Gloomy Sunday, which is called suicide anthem.

For some time, the authors unsuccessfully tried to sell their creation to recording companies, but everyone refused to publish this song because of its "oppressive gloom".

When the song was recorded, it instantly gained unprecedented popularity. But ... already in the first year of its rental, 120 suicides were committed, which were somehow connected with Szomoró Vasárnap. For example: a man left a cafe in which the musicians at his request performed Szomoró Vasárnap, and knocked out their brains. In the pocket of a shoemaker who committed suicide, they found a lyrics. The young mistress of the store committed suicide, at her feet lay a plate with a recording of a song, etc.

Shortly before writing Gloomy Sunday, her author of the cut parted with his girlfriend. After the recording of the song, they reunited, and after a while, when it already seemed that their life was getting up, the girl was found dead. She accepted the poison, in her hand there was a suicide note: "Szomoró vasárnap."

When in 1936 the song was released in English, BBC, as well as the American broadcasting network banned its rotation and distribution. Later, the unrest of her subsided, and the Air Force decided to scroll on the air of the instrumental version of Gloomy Sunday, which was then published on the record. This plate played in a rick in the apartment of a lady, poisoned by a shock dose of barbiturates.

In America, records of this song have not been published for a long time.

The cutting of Sheresh committed suicide in 1968 to the sounds of Gloomy Sunday.

In 1999, the film Gloomy Sunday, or "Song of Love and Death" was shot in Germany.