C'est en Septembre (September Morn' )

[Jean Pierre]

ah ah ah...here's a song that's going to blow away the Rock and Rollers!
It's from Gilbert Becaud a French singer who is maybe not very well known in our Anglo-Saxon countries, at least in the recent generations
...but still in France, in the 60's, before the invasion of the English groups (Beatles and consort) he was very popular with the young people, who broke the chairs of the Olympia at his shows. He was called Monsieur 100000 volts!
He is still known across the Atlantic for having composed "Et maintenant" (What now my love), which has been covered in English by (among others) Elvis Presley, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Sonny and Cher and... James Brown

He composed very beautiful songs of which this one, with Neil Diamond (September morn')

Just 2 guitars, bass  and brush

[guitarron]

Gorgeous tone Jp.  Love it

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

Oh yeah, this is good. Have to admit I haven't heard of the guy but this is an excellent post.
The Gobi Desert Canoe Club

[Groundy]

Beautiful, JP,  Alex

[Jean Pierre]

Merci les gars

This song composed by Neil Diamond and Gilbert Becaud would have been inspired for the music of the 18th variation of the Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, by Rachmaninov
...Well it doesn't jump to the ear...except for the first 5 notes of the theme   


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg76YTPpgcs

[StephenM]

very nice work JP... to be honest I doubt I would want to hear the original... I doubt it would live up to your grand work... this is beautiful singing and playing JP

[Pete C]

Lovely performance ! Cela me rappelle d'être dans un bar en France le soir. Je ne suis pas allé en France depuis 2018 - j'ai besoin d'une autre visite bientôt.

Pete

[Zoltan]

Beautiful performance! I really like the sound of French language. Although there's the downside that i don't understand the lyrics so it's possible to pull a "Gainsbourg" on me and sing about most everything

Speaking of which my knowledge of French artists is very limited. Starting from Gainsbourg, Joe Dassin to Johnny Hallyday. To Jacques Brel and Pierre Bachelett. That's about it I think there should be a French artists fest at some point. The world needs is tens of new versions of Je t'aime... moi non plus, or perhaps maybe not

[Jean Pierre]

Merci Zoltan

J'ai mis pour vous la vidéo avec les paroles française et je vais mettre la traduction en lyric box


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwUMEtguv-k

The olive trees give up
The grapes are reddening their noses
And the sand became cold
To the white sun
Masters bathers and seasonal workers
Return to their real jobs
And the santons will be carved
Before Christmas
It is in September
When the sailboats are unveiled
And the beach trembles under the shadow
Of an untanned autumn
It's in September
That we can live for real
In the summer my own country
In summer it's all about
The caravans, the camping-gas
In the great sun
The great fair of illusions
The underpants too short, the shorts too long
The Dutch girls and their melons
From Cavaillon
It is in September
When the summer puts its shoes back on
And the beach is like a belly
That no one has touched
It's in September
That my country can breathe
The land of my youth
Where my father is buried
My school was heated
In the great sun
In the month of May, I'm leaving
And I leave you to the strangers
To go and be a stranger myself
Under other skies
But in September
When I come back to where I was born
And my beach recognizes me
Opens the arms of a fiancée
It is in September
That I make myself the good year
It is in September
That I fall asleep under the olive tree

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[Zoltan]

Thank you JP for the lyrics and the song