On 4 October 2010 16:23, Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > Connie Francis, Never on Sunday > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SjI6Wl175I > Nana Mouskouri > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1PHWNOn8k
Thanks for this, Gabe. Very nostalgic.... We grew up listening to Connie Francis on this. I guess it was a favourite of our parents' generation (of the 1950s or thereabouts). Or maybe it was just the staple fair available on the 33-1/3 and 45 rpms available on long- and short-playing records in those times. There were also others like The Platters, Porgy and Bess, The King and I, The Sound of Music, and what not. Solid stuff from the days when the sun was yet to (fully) set on the Empire. If I recall right, The Sound of Music was also lovely anti-Nazi stuff, that tugged at the heartstrings rather than being directed at the brain. Some of my Austrian friends told me that it was virtually unknown in their part of the world, I recall vaguely! About Frances, lots of details about her life here (thanks to Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Frances Two aspects -- her considering medical school, and her support for Richard Nixon -- reminded me of Goa's own Rita Faria (and the row over her decision to perform for US armymen in Vietnam). Nana Mouskouri was the better of the two! Now what's left to be done is just to get a Konkani version of this out, and make sure we get a wider, global audience for it. Are Francis Rodrigues, and the other adept translators tuned in? Oh, you can kiss me on a Monday, a Monday, A Monday is very very good. Or you can kiss me on a Tuesday, a Tuesday A Tuesday, in fact I wish you would. Or you can kiss me on a Wednesday, a [ Find more Lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.org/ALuS ] Thursday, A Friday and Saturday is best. But never, never on a Sunday, a Sunday, A Sunday, 'cos that's my day of rest. Most any day you can be my guest. Any day you say, but my day of rest. Just name the day that you like the best. Only stay away on my day of rest. FN PS: Just to say I retuned my net-radio station to "181.FM Good Time Oldies"! Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490
