All summer, we talk about a great love song every day. Tuesday, July 11, one of the rare happy love songs from the author of “Ne me quitte pas”.
“My night, my thirst, my hunger / My day, my dawn, my bread” : all this says the same thing, a sequence of 45 synonyms – shall we say – that Jacques Brel addresses to the woman he loves. And since 1958, when this song was released, many lovers sing it or recite it to the person of their heart.
And it is quite possible that it is even one of Jacques Brel’s songs which, without being a hit, was most often learned by heart. And with all the more emotion as it is a happy love song…
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
Jacques Brel, Litanies for a return, 1958
Barbara, Litanies for a return, 1961
Jacques Brel, Do not leave me, 1959
Jacques Brel, Matilda, 1963
Jacques Brel, Song of Old Lovers, 1967
Jacques Brel, The city fell asleep, 1977
Jacques Brel, The first names of Paris, 1961
Jacques Brel, When we only have love, 1956
Yael Naim, Camelia Jordana, Nolwenn Leroy, When we only have love, 2015
Jacques Brel, Litanies for a return, 1958
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