Gloomy Sunday by Alan Moores

Gloomy Sunday by Alan Moores (aka blinddrunkal)
A couple of months ago I asked my friend Alan (blinddrunkal)a favor: to sing this sad song for me as i'm completely incapable to produce any descent sound.
Alan did this beloved cover of the song and i did the video.
Little boy acting is Kptmiki's son , Hector
"Gloomy Sunday" (from Hungarian "Szomorú vasárnap")is a song written in 1933 by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress, in which the singer mourns the untimely death of a lover and contemplates suicide.
There have been several urban legends regarding the song over the years, mostly involving it being allegedly connected with various numbers of suicides, and radio networks reacting by purportedly banning the song. However, most of these claims are unsubstantiated.
It is also rumored the music played without lyrics will put the listener into a deep sleep and induce vivid dreams and nightmares. The nightmares usually consist of falling or flying sensations.
In 1968, Rezső Seress, the original composer, jumped to his death from his apartment.
Artists who have recorded or reinterpreted the song include:

1935: Pal Kalmar (this is by many considered the original and "the granddaddy of them all)
1935: (UK): Paul Robeson (released in the US in 1936; Desmond Carter lyrics)
1935: Pyotr Leschenko (in Russian, under title "Mratschnoje Woskresenje")
1936: Damia (in French, under the title "Sombre Dimanche", recorded on February 28, lyrics by Jean Marèze and François-Eugène Gonda, music by Rezső Seress)
,Hal Kemp, Paul Whiteman , Billie Holiday, Mel Tormé ,Ricky Nelson, Eila Pellinen (in Finnish), Sarah Vaughan, Lou Rawls. Carmen McRae. Genesis (US), Ray Charles ,Lydia Lunch, Elvis Costello & the Attractions,
Associates, Marc and the Mambas, Swans Way , Peter Wolf , Christian Death, Serge Gainsbourg, Diamanda Galás , Sinéad O'Connor , Sarah McLachlan, Mystic, Marianne Faithfull ,The Smithereens, Björk , Kronos Quartet , Sarah Brightman, Heather Nova, Branford Marsalis, Marc Almond

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Music

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• Gloomy
• Sunday
• Rezső
• Seress
• Szomorú
• vasárnap
• cover
• alan
• moores
• blinddrunkal
• Hungarian
• suicide
• song
• collaboration
• urban
• legends

[orionedwin]

What an original and beautiful creation!

[lemonostiftis]

can't but thank you much for the kind words

[IIEleniII]

Beautiful done

[lemonostiftis]

thank you my friend

[RepeaterPeter]

sovietmarxist - he he

[lemonostiftis]

cheers mate

[exsasman]

and your's is??? stick with the little girl videos, then!

[sovietmarxist]

horrible singing

[sonnenberg]

"The image is a pure creation of the mind. It can not be born of a comparison, but from drawing together two distant realities. The more the ties between these two realities are distant and right, the stronger the image will be."

Jean-Luc Godard from JLG/JLG

[lemonostiftis]

big thanks once more my friend Bill. it's nice having your support