Aznavour on an open thread

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The great Charles Aznavour, master of the chanson, passed away today. It’s a personal loss. Aznavour has been so much a part of the landscape of my life. I feel his passing most acutely.

La Boheme remembers Toulouse-Lautrec’s Montmartre, where painters could rarely afford to eat – but where art and love were enough to sustain them.

An ode to simpler times “when I was starving and you posed nude,” it is also a lament for the loss of youth.

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“When, on a random day, I go for a walk to my old address,” sings Aznavour, “Montmartre seems sad and the lilac trees are dead.”

Such was the song’s popularity that he recorded versions in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English and German.

https://youtu.be/JomPbQL1Z0s

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5 years ago

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guymacher
guymacher
5 years ago

Aznavour not only sang a song, he acted it. Very sad he is gone.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago

During the German occupation of France during World War II, Aznavour and his family hid Jews and “a number of people who were persecuted by the Nazis, while Charles and his sister Aida were involved in rescue activities,” according to a statement issued in 2017 by the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin. In that year he and Aida received the Raoul Wallenberg Award for their wartime activities. “The Aznavours were closely linked to the Missak Manouchian Resistance Group and in this context they have offered shelter to Armenians, Jews and others at their own Paris flat, risking their own lives.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aznavour#World_War_II

vercingetorix
vercingetorix
5 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

It has always been inexplicable to me why Pétain wasn’t executed after the liberation 1945, while many other traitors were…..

Maranatha
Maranatha
5 years ago

”Que est si triste Venice”,…….and all the music at the same time…
Sad.
People like you never die.

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

Pamela, stunning as always…..

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

I never heard of this guy and no wonder.

I heard him sing and sorry, he’s a good singer but not a great singer. Kind of corny, if you ask me. Typical of French people and their choices of singing and even humor. Jerry Lewis won a couple of comedy awards from the French.

I was not surprised. Not that I didn’t find him funny, but it was kid humor that had me laughing as a teen.

British people have also a weird sense of humor. I don’t really find it funny. Like letting in Moslems but that’s another story. Weird, from people that gave us the suave James Brawn.

lucifer69
lucifer69
5 years ago

Tell me, why are you telling us this?
Probably to show your cultural ignorance!
Dommage.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago
Reply to  lucifer69

There was a raidio host a long time ago. A guy kept calling to play this certain singer.

This radio host would never play it because he said the guy could never sing. He would say the guy sang FLAT. I finally heard the guy sing one day.

And you know what? The radio host was right! The guy can’t sing. He sang FLAT!

This guy sings FLAT!! But there was something about Frank Sinatra. I bought his greatest hits album. This guy didn’t sing FLAT!

You wanna be famous in America?? Don’t SING FLAT!! Some guys got it and some don’t, OK??

lucifer69
lucifer69
5 years ago

My friend, if your norm is flatness , just go to the opera. They dont sing FLAT there and its a differnt kind of art.
However, if you know Aznavour or Celentano or Zuccero, Patricia Kaas , great singers as well as jazz singers do not necessarily have to fill your standards.
For Charles and the ones above, hundreds of millionsof people in the world cannot be wrong and you right.
Feeling is important when you make music and flatness is possible if it gives you the right feeling the singer wants.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago
Reply to  lucifer69

All i know is I don’t care for his singing. If you and the entire universe like him, well good for you.

lucifer69
lucifer69
5 years ago

Thanks.

Reagan_ConservativeUSA
Reagan_ConservativeUSA
5 years ago

“I never heard of this guy”
Then you need to get out more, read, listen, and study.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

I heard of Edith Piaf when they said Madonna was another Edith Piaf. There are many singers out there that should be stars or have one hit wonders, at least.

I want to Tell Simon to make a greatest hits off his talent show. I would buy it. Some of them sing just as good as any super star.

Many local talent shows produce outstanding singers that are just as good and polished as any stars out there.

Karen Clarkson (you never heard of her right?) sings a better rendition of Shake It Off then Taylor Swift.

I like Joe Louis Walker. Never heard of him too, right?

Reagan_ConservativeUSA
Reagan_ConservativeUSA
5 years ago

I don’t care about your hurt feelings. You seem to have something up your @ss about the late great Mr. Aznavour. Smells like a troll with a motive.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

I don’t care about my hurt feeling either. LOL!!

Long live Joe Louis Walker.

Exuperancia Pérez
Exuperancia Pérez
5 years ago

Thank G’d he left lots of recordings of his unique singing talent which are the best testimony of his art.

vercingetorix
vercingetorix
5 years ago

Un grand chansonnier français/arménien nous a quittés………
A great french/armenian singer has left us……
People like him cannot be replaced.

vercingetorix
vercingetorix
5 years ago

May his soul find shelter with all the souls of those armenians killed by the muslim Ottoman Empire 103 years ago!

lucifer69
lucifer69
5 years ago

Charles, you gave us your best. RIP.

durabo
durabo
5 years ago

Charles Aznavour and Edith Piaf are France’s immortal artistic icons.

Rick Reynolds
Rick Reynolds
5 years ago

Never heard of this singer today, thanks for introducing him to us, totally amazing, my kind of music.

Joy Daniels Brower
Joy Daniels Brower
5 years ago

Pamela, what an absolutely wonderful tribute to the great Charles Aznavour!! It just hit me that the first time I ever heard of him was more than 40 years ago from my first (and worst!) husband who lived in France for several years and absolutely loved les chansonniers!! He bought a couple records (the old 33 rpms!) of Aznavour and his greatest hits and played them often. A good memory (I loved those songs and that great singer!!) from a bad marriage!!

And I loved the clips on YouTube of Aznavour and Liza Minnelli – what a wonderful talent in her day!! What you brought to this site reminds he – in a way – of what you did with and for the late great Leonard Cohen; and it was YOU who really introduced his music and his artistic presence to me and, I would imagine, many others as well. Thank you (again) for your wonderful understanding and love of the eternal popular music genre!! I know many others have been entertained and enlightened by your presenting only the best of the best!!

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