Alert icon
We're changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters.  Learn more  Dismiss

JUDY COLLINS - "Marieke" by Jacques Brel 1980

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
18,516
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Apr 30, 2009

Judy Collins performs the Jacques Brel song, "Marieke" with the Hamilton Place Orchestra in a 1980 concert from Ontario, Canada.

Category:

Music

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 7 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (37)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Her performance is breath taking.

  • I suppose the accent critics would prefer Jacques Brel croaking this to an ethereal voice from an incredibly beautiful woman.

  • Collins exposed us to a beautiful songwriter. Her accent is not relevant to the greater point of showing us this brilliant singer-songwriter,  Stop being petty and count your blessings!

  • Least ways, to all those who thought her French was bad, it's better than it was in the late 60's early 70's when she first recorded it.

  • The Flemish are the people from Flanders, their language is Dutch. We speak the same language in Flanders as in Holland, yes.

    Zonder liefde, warme liefde waait de wind de stomme wind, en schuurt het zand over mijn land, mijn vlakke land, mijn Vlaanderenland. Nice how Brel writes about the love between two people and reflects this on the land they live in. Nice rendering by Collins, and both her Dutch and French are charming.

    Speaking from Ghent, Belgium (in French: Gand), hello to the world!

  • Judy Collins takes it away - as usual! This is a haunting tune - the music is gorgeous. This makes me lonely for - and miss terribly- my late great freind Betty Rhodes who sang this like no other - chanteuse extrodinaire. Betty Rhodes bade us farwell in 1988 and left many song in our hearts.

  • sing the fucking song!!!

    oh...ok, dont.

  • @leoantonio11 Hi again. Thanks so much for your language history. I never knew that and now I do feel more educated about our european relatives. BTW Judy Collins is great too even though her dutch and french are not. Cheers,Peter

  • hi strafrag 1: well, your observation is one that could be explained in a five-page exposé or in a few sentences: let's go for option 2:

    officially the languages in belgium are dutch, french and german. earlier we used to call it flemish, to distinguish it from the dutch spoken in the netherlands; but since about fifteen years, our language is officially called dutch. the difference between the two types of dutch is like between american english and uk english (roughly speaking).

  • @leoantonio11 I think it's Flemish, not Dutch. They are very similar,no?

Loading...

Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more