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  • AndoAndo South Bend, INModerator Gallato RS-39 Modèle Noir
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    Argh, three posts in one sitting... Someone throw something at me.

    Agent: fado is a seriously cool music. Do you know any Italian or Spanish? My Italian is excellent, and I'm finding (duh) the Portuguese getting easier the more I read it. Cristina Branco's CD's often come with English translations. Her husband and guitarist, Custodio Castelo, is flat-out magnificent. Excellent composer and player. Don't get Branco's latest, "Ulysses." Get "Sensus" instead. You won't regret it.
  • JackJack western Massachusetts✭✭✭✭
    Posts: 1,752
    Ando wrote:
    I was in a library in rural Louisiana a few weeks ago and found some sheet music of songs by Noel Coward. Evidently, from a musical called "Bitter Sweet," there is a tune called "Zigeuner." It's a valse, copyrighted 1929. The lyrics go:

    ZIGEUNER
    Words and Music by Noel Coward

    Once upon a time, many years ago
    Lived a fair princess, hating to confess
    Loneliness was torturing her so

    Then a gypsy came, called to her by name
    Woo'd her with a song, sensuous and strong
    All the summer long her passion seemed to tremble like a living frame

    *refrain*
    Play to me beneath the summer moon
    Zigeuner! Zigeuner! Zigeuner!
    All I ask of life is just to listen to the songs that you sing
    My spirit like a bird on the wing
    Your melodies adoring, soaring
    Call to me with some barbaric tune
    Zigeuner! Zigeuner! Zigeuner!
    Now you hold me in your power
    Play to me for just an hour
    Zigeuner!

    Bid my weeping cease, melody that brings
    Merciful release, promises of peace
    Through the gentle throbbing of the strings

    Music of the plain, music of the wild
    Come to me again, hear me not in vain
    Soothe a heart in pain, and let me to my happiness be reconciled

    *refrain*

    If anyone's interested (sorry I don't have the verse chords here) these are the chords my old fake book has for the refrain...

    Eb |Bb7 Eb6 | B7 |Bb7 |
    B7 |Bb7 |Eb |Eb6 |
    Eb |Eb |Bb7 |Eb Adim|
    Bb7 | Bb7 |Eb C#dim|Bb7 |

    Eb |Bb7 Eb6 | B7 |Bb7 |
    B7 |Bb7 |Eb |Eb6 |
    Eb |Abm(maj7)| Eb |Ddim Db7 |
    B7 |B7 |Eb |Eb |

    I think there was a bit of a fad around then for gypsy-themed tunes; one of Bix records has a vocal version of 'Gipsy' credited to Malneck/Signorelli/Gilbert (sample: "Gipsy, you have no destination, Gipsy...throughout the land of Romany you caravan..."). To me most of these tunes remind me quite a bit of 'Shine': though the music often holds up, they're long on stereotype.

    Best,
    Jack.
  • AgentAgent New
    Posts: 7
    Ando wrote:
    Cristina Branco's CD's often come with English translations. Her husband and guitarist, Custodio Castelo, is flat-out magnificent. Excellent composer and player. Don't get Branco's latest, "Ulysses." Get "Sensus" instead. You won't regret it.

    Thanks for the recommendations Ando! I shall point the right names in the right direction.
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