Half a Century Late, I Discovered This Haunting Voice

[bitflipper]

Hard to imagine this melody is 300 years old. You don't need to speak French to figure out what it's about.

For bonus points, guess which 60's pop song is based on it.

 

[57Gregy]

Beautiful.

Got a hint of 'I Can't Help Falling In Love With You' in the melody.

Googled it, answer appears later.

[Salvatore Sorice]

39 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

Beautiful.

Got a hint of 'I Can't Help Falling In Love With You' in the melody.

Googled it, answer appears later.

Agree on 'I Can't Help Falling In Love With You' but the other parts are foreign to me - but they are beautiful. A little "Ave Maria" in there?

[Shane_B.]

Reminds me of the origins of Love Me Tender by Elvis. The music is near identical, but the lyrics are quite different. My brother found a 78 of Elvis' Love Me Tender at a yard sale one time. He framed it and has it hanging in his music room. It's not worth anything, but it's kind of cool to have Elvis on 78.

 

[Rain]

I remember seeing her on TV often and hearing her on AM radio when I was growing up in Quebec. She was quite popular and well respected as an artist. 

 

Amusingly, I've had that song stuck in my head for the last two weeks because I happened to watch the 66 Batman movie, and the song is performed by Julie Gregg during a scene. I am forever partial to Julie Newmar as Catwoman but Lee Meriwether was easy on the eyes in that dress...

 

[Notes_Norton]

Thanks. I hadn't even thought of her in years. Brings back a good time in my musical journey.

[bitflipper]

Yep, it's the Elvis tune Can't Help Falling in Love - but with cooler chords. There are couple vids on YT with her performing Plasir d'amour with Joan Baez, one of which shows the latter clearly struggling with the guitar chords.

[Shane_B.]

15 hours ago, Rain said:

Amusingly, I've had that song stuck in my head for the last two weeks because I happened to watch the 66 Batman movie

I knew I had heard that song somewhere but couldn't remember. I thought it was just because the melody is so similar to Can't Help Falling In Love With You. 

Now I want to watch a double feature of that and Munster Go Home. They go very well together.

Back in my oldies band days we did Can't Help Falling In Love With You. The rhythm guitar players wife's name was Shirley. We always changed it from "like a river flows, surely to the sea ..." to "... Shirley to the sea.". They never picked up on it, but the rest of us got a laugh out of it in a corny kind of way. She passed away a quite few years ago and he passed away a few months ago. Fond memories of a better time.

I say "oldies band days" but since moving back to NJ and helping my brother again with his business, I'm revisiting a lot of my old haunts working on machines part time for him. We do POS systems and Copiers. Every one of the bars and legion halls I've been to that still have bands said people just want to hear 50's, 60's, and 70's. I could call up the guys that are left from my old band, have a couple practices, and be playing out next weekend. Funny how it all comes back around.