The Historama
Alex Ben-Arieh
P.O.Box 32128
Tel Aviv, Israel 61321
Phone: +972-547-680-086
Fax: +972-3-546-1971
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The Historama Alex Ben-Arieh P.O.Box 32128 Tel Aviv, Israel 61321 Phone: +972-547-680-086 Fax: +972-3-546-1971 |
| Israeli '80s and '90s Music |
| Israeli new wave, synth-pop, Julio Iglesias-style '80s Latin music and good time rock n' roll pieces, with lyrics translated below.
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Song Title: Goodbye Adolescence Hello Love [live] ("Lehitraot Neurim Shalom Ahava") Musician: Mashina Video: original music video of the studio recording from the 1994 album "Goodbye Adolescence, Hello Love" - a very good original version of the live piece here on mp3 Year Released: (1994) 1995 Credits: lyrics and music by Yuval Banai and Shlomi Brakha Website: www.mashina.com Comments: Originally released during the Oslo peace process, when the new and unexpected process brought an avowed enemy to be a sudden peace partner, and was still accompanied by terror attacks. The song captures modern mores of the '90's, with the aura of exuberance punctuated by mourning. This live version was recorded during the band's announced final concerts before breaking up - and just a few months short of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. The opening is delivered in the style of a newscast, with similar figures of speech, by Yosi Banai - the lead singer's (Yuval) father. Hear the song! |
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It was a very rainy day and the team lost "He was crazy", said an experienced politician "Tens of people were killed - tens of people", concluded the television announcer "Let's hope there will be quiet. And now the commercials." A woman, very pretty, I close with the switch With an arrow in the heart begins the black night I can't stop moving even when the music's over Something in my life is going to change Above the neon lights, above the concrete city, I see an angel And he says to me "Take the 1990s" It was a very rainy day and the team lost "He was crazy", said an experienced politician "Tens of people were killed", concluded the television announcer "Let's hope there will be quite. And now the commercials." A woman, very pretty, I close with the switch With an arrow in the heart begins the black night I can't stop moving even when the music's over Something in my life is going to change Above the neon lights, above the concrete city, I see an angel And he says to me "Take the 1990s" We returned from Haifa with our faces in our hands The enemy's no longer frightening, he's just dependent on mercy Tomorrow will be clear, hoped the forecasts "The closure will continue. This is the end of the news." A metal drink can rolls in the street This is a strange winter and the wind begins to blow I feel like I've been in an accident but continue behaving normally I feel like I've been in an accident but continue behaving normally Above the neon lights, above the concrete city, I see an angel And he says to me "Take" Lie down, relax, just close your eyes The craziness continues all the way "We live", he said "from Sabbath to Sabbath" Ideology and money don't go together And the facts of life are slim like a knife The call me "Mister Love", the false romantic Who sinks little by little in to a large testicle I beg on my knees that there won't be another time Goodbye adolescence, hello love Above the neon lights, above the concrete city, I see an angel And he says to me "Take the 1990s" Lie down, relax, just close your eyes It was a very rainy day and the team lost "He was crazy", said an experienced politician "Tens of people were killed", concluded the television announcer "Let's hope there will be quite. And now the commercials." A woman, very pretty, I close with the switch With an arrow in the heart begins the black night I can't stop moving even when the music's over Something in my life is going to change back to menu |
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Song Title: In the Spring ("Ba'Aviv") Musician: Micha Shitreet (pronounced "Shetreet") Year Released: 1998 Credits: lyrics and music by Micha Shitreet Website: Comments: Hear the song! |
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We'll get through the winter and afterwards we'll see In the spring, in the spring In the meantime, sit under the clementine tree It's seasonable, seasonable Accept the judgement which falls from above Think that it's rain, think that's winter, and afterwards we'll see We'll get through the winter and afterwards we'll see In the spring, in the spring, in the spring In the spring I'll wear a shite shirt And cross the street like a king... In the sping, in a white shirt like a king, like a king... We'll get through the winter and afterwards we'll see In the spring, in the spring Accept the judgement which falls from above Think that it's rain, think that's winter, and afterwards we'll see We'll get through the winter and afterwards we'll see In the spring, in the spring, in the spring back to menu |
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Song Title: In the Society for the Protection of Nature ("Ba'Khevra Le'Haganat Ha'Teva") Musician: Ariel Zilber Video: original music video aired on a Channel 1 retrospective program Year Released: 1982 Credits: lyrics by Shmuel Chisik; music by Ariel Zilber Website: www.arielzilber.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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Danny has sympathies for older women A sexual attraction, an internal attraction Sits in the bathtub, drawing on the walls An impulse unknown, really just a permanant habit Rina invited me to her her room I thought to myself - this must be serious Her father's well known and accepted in society Perhaps there's a chance here to get some kind of appointment But what a pity, what rotten luck Sitting here on the bench next to the Supersal [supermarket] I want to be a permanent member of the Society for the Protection of Nature To protect the animals That are slowly disappearing from the world I want to be a permanent member of the Society for the Protection of Nature To water the flowers To plant some trees, like everyone back to menu |
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Song Title: The Scrub's [Chafed-mans] Song ("Shiro Shel Shafshaf") Musician: Meir Banai Video: performance pulled from the "Zehu-Ze" ("This is It") program on Educational TV Channel 23 Year Released: 1984 Credits: lyrics by Yair Nitzani; music by Meir Banai Website: Comments: Hear the song! |
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What am I, I'm just a man I live and work like everybody And see a future and always think That conviction gives belief I don't understand what's happening and think Who listens to what's inside the heart And sees a future and always thinks That conviction gives belief And if we just look, and not be shocked And we'll show the world that together everyone So together, yes go together Yes go together towards the light Together, this is the time together And with you together to love I have no fear and I have a feeling That my path will be difficult I see a future, I always think That conviction gives belief I see a future, I always think That conviction gives belief And if we just look, and not be shocked And we'll show the world that together everyone So together, yes go together Yes go together towards the light Together, this is the time together And with you together to love back to menu |
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Song Title: She Walks on the Streets ("He Holokhet Ba'Drakhim") Musician: Alon Olearchik Year Released: 1984 Credits: lyrics and music by Alon Olearchik Website: www.oleartchik.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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And on Sunday morning She wakes up to a dream And on Friday morning With a childish personal memory Her breath escapes away To touch the gloom And wraps itself in it She's a princess without a kingdom She walks on the streets She walks on the streets Above the sea in large planes Where to will her face turn Where to will her face turn Where to will you go Miriam Wanders around the world Where to will you go Miriam And the night's without a star And the magic is in his hands And the lights of the strange city Stroke her hair A day will come perhaps you'll know What is hidden in the palm of her hand What conceals her destiny In its gray sack She walks on the streets She walks on the streets Above the sea in large planes Where to will her face turn Where to will her face turn Where to will you go Miriam Wanders around the world Where to will you go Miriam back to menu |
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Song Title: Saturdays and Holidays ("Shabatot ve'Khagim") Musician: Yehudit Ravitz Video: live performance in Caesaria 1994, featuring Gidi Gov and Rami Kleinstein, pulled from Channel 2 Year Released: 1986 Credits: lyrics by Ya'akov Rotblit; music by Yehudit Ravitz Website: Comments: Hear the song! |
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Now you're at hom, now you're there The children jump on you, they're the lovliest things in the world You melt, spreading out you're hands, you're very happy And soon you'll read a story from the new book A model family man you are - a perfect father At the end you always return, you never leave Everytime you travel you don't forget presents for everyone And now you're at home, now you're there And I'm a hidden partner I'm in the shadows when the light rises I'm a mute child witness Who remains behind Alone on the roof, Saturdays and holidays Alone, alone Saturdays and holidays And you'd be surprised to know that I know you I know exactly where everything is laid And perhaps you already know, perhaps you heard my name Or you slept in silence, not fearing my existence But I'm always with you I see you but I'm not seen When you're there, what remains for you of me now Alone on the roof, Saturdays and holidays Alone, alone Saturdays and holidays You know how I felt When I saw you on the street not long ago I was fine, I didn't reveal any sign But at night how I cried How I wet the pillow Why do I always fall in love in what's not possible Alone on the roof, Saturdays and holidays Alone, alone Saturdays and holidays back to menu |
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Song Title: Joint Apartment Building ("Bayt Meshutaf") Musician: Benzine Year Released: 1984 Credits: lyrics by Ya'akov Gilad; music by Yehuda Poliker Website: Comments: Together with the band "T-Slam", Benzine is touted as one of Israel's first rock bands. It shares a similar early '80s pop-rock sound to Mashina. Benzine was fronted by Yehuda Poliker before he launched his successful solo career. Hear the song! |
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A joint apartment building, so many neighbors I'm always surrounded by buildings in every direction I never have a quiet moment I get no rest Always there's a door closing A baby that it crying Everything starts and ends at the same moment Because here there's no border - no dividing areas I turn on the radio Tune into a station Run away to the radio I want to be alone I turn to the radio It can be nice Now everyone's on the radio They tune into a station We live inside a box for so many years We hang the laundry, make problems and issues I go out, a neighbor enters Apartment next to apartment Living balcony across from balcony As if there's no choice back to menu |
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Song Title: Sparks ("Nitzutzot") Musician: Fortis / Sakharof Year Released: 1990 Credits: lyrics by Rami Fortis; music by Rami Fortis and Berry Sakharof ("FortiSakharof") Website: Comments: Berry Sakharof has been one of the country's leading guitarists for the last 25 years; he and Rami Fortis orginially belonged to the popular new-wave English-language Israeli lineup called "Minimal Compact" before they started to perform alone as a duo (and finally as soloists, only to come back together now in the last year). Although quite an old piece now, this song hasn't disappeared from the radio long enough to truly be "classic" (instead of contemporary) rock. Hear the song! |
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Yes we're both together, the enemy who is a friend I'm a costume and inside is someone else Shouting to the moon, crying and cursing Twisting around like a dog, beaten and wailing It's like a shock of electricity, and it flows and distorts The sense of time - to where? I go and get into trouble Sparks of understanding, passing again like a running movie Like a stormy wind, they're skinning off more pieces of the peel The fear drips like poison and gets absorbed like a kiss I'm the trap, imprisoned without hope Wanting to open a door, but closed inside and don't go out Trying to run away and always, always returning It's like dancing with a ghost who hugs and never lets go Yes, he's always hungry. I go and distance myself Sparks of understanding, passing again like a running movie Like a stormy wind, they're skinning off more pieces of the peel back to menu |
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Song Title: There's no End to Childhood ("Ein Ketz le Yaldut") Musician: Fortis / Sakharof Year Released: 1990 Credits: lyrics by Rami Fortis; music by Rami Fortis and Berry Sakharof ("FortiSakharof") Website: Comments: Hear the song! |
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Come and give me your hand firmly And we'll go out on a journey, mysterious and pleasant We'll hug the teddy bear, we'll draw clouds We'll take a gun and fight like grown-ups And at night, we'll go together to sleep You'll be the lady and me the gentleman At the day's noon everything is colored red And there's no end to childhood, which passed by so suddenly At the day's noon everything returns like a dream Moments and hours which got frozen in place At the day's noon Come lets play the same game The one which time covered in dust We'll hug the teddy bear and you'll blush Tell me more, and get so excited And at night we'll go together to sleep You'll be the little girl and me the little boy At the day's noon everything is colored red And there's no end to childhood, which passed by so suddenly At the day's noon everything returns like a dream Moments and hours which got frozen in place At the day's noon back to menu |
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Song Title: Heatwave in the Morning ("Boker Shel Khamsin") Musician: Menny Beger Video: performance pulled from the "Zehu-Ze" ("This is It") program on Educational TV Channel 23 Year Released: 1985 Credits: lyrics and music by Menny Beger Website: Comments: Hear the song! |
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Heatwave in the morning A girl in sandles Gave me her hand Took me to the sea We got into the car Drove in silence We saw a beach with Weeds and seashells Heatwave in the morning A girl in sandles Gave me her hand Took me to the sea Heatwave in the morning A girl in sandles With sparkling eyes She's all a dream Heatwave in the morning I sat on the sand A red flame Burst forth from the sea The heat is covered in blood Suddenly the summer ends I saw people And everyone was running to the sea Heatwave in the morning A girl in sandles Gave me her hand Took me to the sea Heatwave in the morning A girl in sandles With sparkling eyes She's all a dream back to menu |
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Song Title: Game of Tears ("Miskhak Shel Dma'ot") Musician: Revenge of the Tractor (also "The Tractor's Revenge"; "Nikmat Ha'Traktor" in Hebrew) Video: original music video pulled from Channel 24 music TV Year Released: 1990 Credits: lyrics and music by Avi Balali Website: www.tractor.co.il Comments: Hear the song! |
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In the hours of quiet Sweaty from your body I feel you disappearing Slipping away inside yourself Into clouds of silence You drip saltiness of departure And strangeness gets scattered It's all just a game of tears I fly to another place It's all just a game of tears I fly to another place And in the day's morning You stood before me silent And a game of tears began With the noise of the train It's all just a game of tears I fly to another place It's all just a game of tears I fly to another place back to menu |
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Song Title: The Anger ("Ha Kaas") Musician: Rockfour Video: performance pulled from the "Zehu-Ze" ("This is It") program on Educational TV Channel 23 Year Released: 1991 Credits: lyrics by Tal Gordon / music by Amir Tzoref Website: www.rockfour.com and Rockfour @ MySpace.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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My ears are blocked, your smile a dim memory I push away thoughts and throw, like into a gaping hole, Seals on contracts of agreements which have passed their time I see everything get interrupted and left on the side The anger is already locked in, but still shaking Between the exposed corners I need to be careful When you come there won't be anything left It's like a different place I run away and call to you, I cannot release myself If there are still more reasons they're no longer important now A diver disappears and buries his head in the sand A collection of questions still burns inside Afraid to rise up, and always falls afresh The anger is already locked in, but still shaking Between the exposed corners I need to be careful When you come there won't be anything left It's like a different place I run away and call to you, I cannot release myself back to menu |
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Song Title: Restless Night ("Laila Lo Shaket") Musician: Shlomo Artzi Year Released: 1986 Credits: lyrics and music by Shlomo Artzi Website: Comments: According to mima.co.il the song is about a good friend of Arzti's, Miron Granot, a helicopter pilot killed in the Yom Kippur war. Hear the song! |
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Again at night I dream about you In the military uniform which was yours A helicopter flies around the hot desert And you're scared And she already has a child here She phones that I should come And I try to get out of it and make an effort But she's not like everyone else I tell her it's coming back Yes, it doesn't go away She pours me a hot coffee And caresses my whole being Then she asks does it help Go smoke and come back She gets undressed even when it's not hot And tempts me But at night I dream of you With the same face which was yours And the same small stubbles which back then You didn't manage to shave away And I get down from the bed And unite, but not with her Yes I shirk away Yes I make an effort But, she watches I tell her it's coming back Yes, it doesn't go away She pours me a hot coffee And caresses my whole being Then she asks does it help Go smoke and come back She gets undressed even when it's not hot And tempts me Again at night I dream about you And wake up from dreaming about how they are They're shooting at you and striking you And you cry Perhaps you found rest Among soldiers you're permitted to Yes I console and sleep with her, yes As if in your stead I tell her it's coming back Yes, it doesn't go away She pours me a hot coffee And caresses my whole being Then she asks does it help Go smoke and come back She gets undressed even when it's not hot And tempts me I tell her it's coming back Yes, it doesn't go away She pours me a hot coffee And caresses my whole being Again she asks does it help Go smoke and come back Again she gets undressed even when it's not hot Again she tempts me A night, a restless night And you're dead... back to menu |
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Song Title: Beneath a Mediterranean Sky ("Takhat Shmey Yam HaTikhon") Musician: Shlomo Artzi Year Released: 1988 Video: Original music video with English subtitles; features Artzi's son, Ben, who has also launched a music career. Credits: lyrics and music by Shlomo Artzi Website: www.shlomoartzi.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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Beneath a Mediterranean sky The moon takes a break and packs up A man with a paintbrush tells me his worries And paints you similarly - or not, or so Now we have the time to lie supinely Half the world takes drugs In my body passes a shiver, the song "Roxanne" A shiver I have too, from deprivation Beneath a Mediterranean sky You had time to put on makeup and enchant You go out with a trace of self confidence You return with your tail folded between your legs Half the world barely survives Half the world hates the other half In my body passes a shiver, me betting Who is the enemy and who is the friend Beneath a Mediterranean sky An evening of watermelons descends Sweet delusions Gold links on your neck, and it throws You from here to there, and me from there to here Like a ballet melody Until the sea will return from its fury No, we won't know It costs, it costs, it costs us How much it costs us Beneath a Mediterranean sky Your hand strokes me a rare caress Soon there will be elections You're a political animal who identifies with minorities Now we have a an eastern time Half the world already sings for Greece In my body passes a shiver, anyway it's From terror and love Beneath a Mediterranean sky An evening of watermelons descends Sweet delusions Gold links on your neck, and it throws You from here to there, and me from there to here Like a ballet melody Until the sea will return from its fury No, we won't know It costs, it costs, it costs us How much it costs us back to menu |
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Song Title: A Room of my Own ("Kheder miSheli") Musician: Arkady Duchin Year Released: 1995 Video: Credits: lyrics and music by Arkadi Duchin Website: www.arkadi-music.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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I have a room of my own And in the room there is light At the moment it's not me Or me in black It's continued almost a week Or at least a few days now If you ask me why It's deep inside Get over it, overcome it Says a voice to me To get hit and to fall Is something everyone can do All of us are permitted to be weak Don't plug your ears Don't close your eyes Don't raise your hands Even on difficult days Even on difficult days I have a room of my own In which I relax How long will all this take As long as it must In the meantime it's been a week Or at least a few days If you ask me why It's deep inside back to menu |
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Song Title: Thorns (part A) ("Kotzim Alef") Musician: Meir Ariel Video: Year Released: 1993 Credits: lyrics and music by Meir Ariel Website: www.meirariel.org.il and www.meirariel.net Comments: Meir Ariel chose to name this song and another from the same album as "Thorns A" and "Thorns B", to distinguish them as critical songs from among many of a more pleasant nature on the same album - the notion being that these were "thorns" surrounding the fruits. "Thorns A" mocks the culture of mass television, permanently on, mixing disasters with advertisements and leading in the end of apathy and mindlessness. Hear the song! |
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The naked king rides again under pressure from the masses The naked king rides again under pressure from the masses Thrusts out his right shoulder Sticks out his tongue My easy chair opens to the back, facing the [television] screen My easy chair opens to the back, facing the screen I had a gray day, if not a terrible one altogether I'm facing the screen They're showing a little girl stuck in the mud, and there's nothing to be done I've got a little girl stuck in the mud and there's nothing to do I, in my easy chair, will continue to lie around Because I have nothing to do Those guys who are shooting there in the street - is that real? Those guys who are shooting there in the street - is that real? Is that a piece of live news - or a quality movie? A plane taking off dives and crashes into the bottom of my belly A plane taking off dives and crashes into the bottom of my belly A news presenter busies himself a bit in papers - above the peak of my belly And all the disasters indeed in the end go to the dairy delicacy Yes all the disasters in the end go to the dairy delicacy Struck by hunger and quick noise they turn into natural juice now Above the belly's dome here I am with lurching jaw and tongue Above the peak of the belly here I am with lurching jaw and toungue Someone there tried hard and here I am knocking myself down to sleep With my awakenings they present the national anthem* - perhaps I would get up With my awakenings they present the national anthem - certainly no one gets up Our flag flutters in every salon - and nobody gets up [*Channel 1, back in '93 the only channel, used to play the national anthem at midnight at the close of programming] The naked king rides again under pressure from the masses The naked king rides again under pressure from the masses Thrusts out his right shoulder Sticks out his tongue back to menu |
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Song Title: A Thousand Firemen ("Elef Kabayim") Musician: Doda (Gidi Gov & Danny Sanderson) ["Doda" means 'Auntie'] Video: Danny Sanderson's live version, from Channel 24 Year Released: 1980 Credits: lyrics by Gidi Gov & Danny Sanderson / music by Danny Sanderson Website: Danny Sanderson @ MySpace and www.dannysanderson.net; www.GidiGov.co.il Comments: Gidi Gov (lead vocals) and Danny Sanderson, the original "bad boys" of Israeli "good-time rock 'n roll" in one of their early incarnations, with Yehuda Eder on guitars. Hear the song! |
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A thousand firemen won't succeed in putting me out A thousand firemen won't succeed in putting me out From below the ladder rises It gets closer and tries... It reaches... It doesn't reach, it doesn't reach A thousand doctors won't succeed in hospitalizing me A thousand doctors won't succeed in hospitalizing me Here, there the doctor shouts He gets closer to me with a needle Gets closer... He doesn't reach, he doesn't reach A thousand barbers won't succeed in cutting my hair A thousand barbers won't succeed in cutting my hair Scissors get closer to the head My ears, he wants to cut He reaches... He doesn't reach, he doesn't reach A thousand firemen won't succeed in putting me out A thousand firemen won't succeed in putting me out To put me out A thousand firemen won't succeed in putting me out To put me out Oh oh oh, oh oh eee... Won't succeed in putting me out Oh oh oh, oh oh eee... Won't succeed in putting me out Oh oh oh, oh oh eee... Won't succeed in putting me out A thousand firemen - Won't succeed in putting [me] out Two thousand painters - Won't succeed in putting [me] out Four hundred thousand cavalrymen - Won't succeed in putting [me] out A million nine-hundred and ninety - Won't succeed in putting [me] out A thousand firemen won't succeed in putting me out back to menu |
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Song Title: Violets ("Sigaliyot") Musician: David Broza Video: live performace pulled from Channel 3 (probably early 1990's) Year Released: 1983 Credits: original lyrics and music: A. Sobredo / Hebrew adaptation: Yonatan Geffen / Musical adaptation: Louis Lahav and David Broza Website: www.davidbroza.net and David Broza @ MySpace Comments: A Hebrew version of the original "Cecilia" by Sobredo, one of Broza's favorite musicians, who died prematurely in a car accident. This song featured on Broza's 1983 album "The Woman With Me" ("HaIsha She Iti"), which has been for years Israel's best selling album ever. Bearing certain hallmarks of Julio Iglesias of that time, the whole album was dedicated to contemporary Spanish/Latin music of that time; 9 of 10 songs were Hebraicized covers of original Spanish songs. If memory serves me correctly, prior to being released, the record company "Hed Artzi" turned down the chance to produce this album feeling it would not be financially viable and missed out on the country's best selling album ever. Hear the song! |
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She got married and she's in bliss Even though her husband was a sort of ghost and mule All the time ill-tempered permanently And he doesn't even say why It's three years that she receives From a stranger, under the door Letters of song to her They brighten her world Tell me who is it that writes to you little girl, tell me who sends A wreath of purple flowers when spring blooms Who on the ninth of every November Without greeting, without name or riddle Send you violets in a wreath tied with a ribbon Whole nights that she doesn't sleep About him, while awake, she dreams He must be a guy with a romantic heart A good soul and a pleasant smile Three years he suffers in silence Yes, sometimes she almost shouts And what if her husband knows She hides her letters Tell me who is it that writes to you little girl, tell me who sends A wreath of purple flowers when spring blooms Who on the ninth of every November Without greeting, without name or riddle Send you violets in a wreath tied with a ribbon When her husband returns home Tired from work, casts downward a questioning glance He doesn't say yes he knows If she knows she'd definitely go crazy Yes, it's he who writes to her He the beloved, he her dream And what if her husband knows She hides her letters Tell me who is it that writes to you little girl, tell me who sends A wreath of purple flowers when spring blooms Who on the ninth of every November Without greeting, without name or riddle Send you violets in a wreath tied with a ribbon back to menu |
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Song Title: On the Steps of the Theater ("Al Madregot HaTeatron") Musician: Ilan Virtzberg Video: live performance on a Channel 1 weekly "top of the charts" program (ranking at #18) Year Released: 1985 Credits: words by Dudu Weizer; music by Ilan Virtzberg Website: www.virtzberg.com and ilan virtzberg @ MySpace Comments: An excellent piece not available on CD (as the original record has not been re-released on disc), but kindly made available by Virtzberg on his site (for download and for listening). Virtzberg has many highly regarded music credits to his name, is an active songwriter - and probably the most understated (and so overlooked) of Israel's contemporary music writers and musicians. For example, until we get the actual song in, here is a wonderful piece composed by him, "Under the Tree of Love", and sung by Yossi Banai with Nurit Galron (1988). Hear the song! |
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I still don't know what happened It's still not yet registered in my mind [It was] on the steps and she said "I want you to know..." And I didn't know if it was just A dream of someone acting In the theater of someone who said [a female] "I want you to know..." [said to a female]: I love you I need you Above the reservoirs of my eyes I love you I need you Goodbye to sadness, to suffering For myself, my laughter rose and rose On the steps of the theater I found a solution I still don't know what happened It's still not yet registered in my mind [It was] on the steps and she said "I want you to know..." [said to a female]: I love you I need you Above the reservoirs of my eyes I love you I need you back to menu |