Il est mort le soleil, Nicoleta

[Jean Pierre]

It's a French song by Nicoleta, a singer with a powerful "blues" voice, who Ray Charles used to say "... she was the only white woman with a black voice...".
(Ray Charles covered this song under the title "The sun died".)

As I am stuck in town by the covid without my instruments, I worked a little more than usual on the arrangement with Reaper.

- nylon takamine guitar ,
- acoustic guitar steel strings Takamine
- almost telecaster guitar
- almost Precision bass guitar
- the horns are from BIAB
- the MT Power drumkit

add on box for lyrics the words in french and the box Ray Charles version in english the two version are quite similar

Il est mort le soleil
Nicoletta
Il est mort
Il est mort, le soleil
Quand tu m'as quittée
Il est mort, l'été
L'amour et le soleil
C'est pareil
Il est mort
Il est mort, le soleil
Mais je suis la seule à porter le deuil
Et le jour ne franchit plus mon seuil
Hier, on dormait sur le sable chaud
Hier pour moi il faisait beau
Il faisait beau même en hiver
C'était hier
Il est mort
Il est mort, le soleil
L'ombre est sur ma vie
Dans mon cœur, la pluie
Et mon âme s'habille de gris
Hier, la couleur que j'aimais le mieux
C'était la couleur de tes yeux
C'était la couleur de la mer
C'était hier
Il est mort
Il est mort, le soleil
Quand tu m'as quittée
Il est mort, l'été
L'amour et le soleil
C'est pareil
C'est pareil

The Sun Died
Ray Charles
The sun died
The sun died, with my love
When you left me blue, the summer died too
My love and the sun, it's the same
The sun died
The sun died, with my love
And I'm so alone, and yet life goes on
But for me, there can be no more dawn
Yesterday, the coldest winter was like spring
I thought my love would always stay
I thought our love would never end
But that was yesterday
The sun died
The sun died, with my love
And life's all in vain, in my heart there's rain
And I know that my soul won't stop crying
Yesterday, when I was looking in your eyes
I thought it was sweet paradise
For love completely changed my life
But that was yesterday
The sun died
The sun died, with my love
When you left me blue, the summer died too
My love and the sun, it's the same
My love and the sun, it's the same

[Groundy]

Such beautiful playing and a brilliant vox. Well done JP.... Alex

[Greeny]

So good. Your vocal is amazing! Real emotion - like Jacques Brel. And I love the arrangement. Everything sounds so fine. The brass additions are lovely.

[maxit]

This one really moved me. Dont know what to say ...

[Bluesberry]

Ahhh thats what I needed to hear tonight...stunning, real, beautiful, moving, peaceful....very good job.

[Jean Pierre]

Thank you friends, I'm glad you like these French songs a little bit...I'm going to do some of them these days...it seems to me that I'm currently the only French-speaking representative,...indeed we don't read any more lately neither Daniel de Sete, nor his friend steel guitar...I don't know what became of them...if one of you has any news?

[Mike_S]

Oh yes, so good JP. Certainly is great to hear different colours and tones of music from different countries. Something very romantic about French music. This is really beautiful and that bit of time on the arrangement was well spent. Amazing guitar tones and that touch of delay on the vocal was perfect.

Mike

[StephenM]

oh, oh,oh.....i feel the longing....yes...beautiful JP

[Jean Pierre]

I'm trying to reconstruct the links with videos deleted by YT

I found this one by browsing in One Drive


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYSxuO6_x4

Well, this video is basic to say the least, but the audio file is in .Wav so (maybe?) better quality
Although, like Ray Brookes, I don't hear a noticeable difference between a Wav file and an MP3 file (debate)

[guitarron]

Nice bump
Never heard this song before. It is very beautiful. Nice arrangement with horns. Terrific job.