Marieke by Jacques Brel (Sung by Elly Stone)

"Marieke" from the film "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris". (1975)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Jacques
• brel
• elly
• stone
• mort
• shuman
• musical
• paris
• video

[MJames2700]

@Hillels2 -- I love Jacques Brel is Alive and well...., and was once cast in it but was unable to fulfill the performance. ELLY STONE is amazing. Friends of mine who saw the show when it debuted in America said Elly Stone "had no life" performing 8-10 shows a week for 7 months and that the emotion and demand of her performances all but killed her. I THANK Ms. Stone and Mr. Blau for bringing Brel to English. I will never get tired of listening to it.

[Brelfanlongtime]

Obviously you think that if you say it often enough it will come true!

[ffvsartoris]

what ever would we have done without Elly.... and even more... what would Brel have done? She created a repeatable variorum edition... something one can only dimly appreciate now that it is gone...

[jmtrapp]

Saw her in concert and fell in love with her voice and delivery and that was before I knew she starred in "Jacque Brel....". Saw her many times after that including in "Jacque Brel..." Stopped singing and became a director or so I read years ago.

[puppyshoes]

I loved the movie, but in all fairness that song is a love song about Flanders. Brel had written and sang a song called "Les Flamandes" which was considered an insult. Brel and Jouannest wrote "Marieke." They were hoping that the people of Flanders would like Brel again.

[IsadorkaDuncan]

This is the cast that I've seen the play with once upon a time at the Alley theater in Houston :) so to me this IS the original version and love the voices.

[KathlynB]

@EveSimone I am working on it! Just added Wilhelmina Cord, so search for Wilhelmina Cord Elly Stone and you'll find it. I will add more as I get them done. I love that album, have had it for many years and it is about time I got the songs off into digital form.

[purveyor24]

I know you people have never heard of Phil Marcus Esser, but this american put on the best musical production of " Jaques Brel is alive and living in Paris" for the average citizen who didn't know they could be entertained for 3 hrs by some "French" guy. Thankfully Phil was a local guy, with a great ensemble, great compositions, great cast and most of all "a great idea", in Detroit, at Mercy College, in dinner theatre format. Phil was an original proponent of the heart of this city.

[cagervin]

I don't know...I like this song but it's nothing like the original. In the original version there is almost a kind of psychic fear of being traped forever between Bourg and Ghent. Does love-past loves lead to more life across the barren field of remose in front of us or does it trap us? And there is the correlation of the Dutch chorus to French lyric-the Flemish chorus seems to almost threaten and challenge the French.  Not the same song

[goblinonacloud]

@Hillels2 I agree totally..

[goblinonacloud]

Brel loved Elly's voice doing his music. He said once that she should have been French. Very high praise from him indeed..

[TheWein13]

After many years of futile attempts, I was finally able to find a good quality cd of Jacque Brel is alive.....and so on. It remains glorious after all these years. The production is a rare treat.