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"Gloomy Sunday" (Hungarian: Szomorú Vasárnap), also known as the "Hungarian Suicide Song", is a popular song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933. The original lyrics were titled "Vége a világnak" ( The world is ending ) and were about despair caused by war, ending in a quiet prayer about people's sins.
Herbert Desmond Carter (15 June 1895 – 3 February 1939) was a British lyricist who worked with George and Ira Gershwin, Ivor Novello, and others, and also wrote one of the first English language versions of the notorious "suicide song", "Gloomy Sunday". He was born in Bristol.
It's a rendition of the Billie Holiday classic "Gloomy Sunday" so incredible, you'd hardly know it came from a 7-year-old. This performance earned Angelina Jordan Asta a standing ovation on the ...
The single includes two versions of "Drawn to the Rhythm" — live acoustic from MuchMusic and album mix — as well as a live version of "Gloomy Sunday" which was recorded on 18 October 1991, at the Discovery Theatre, Vancouver. The music video for this song was directed by Sarah McLachlan herself. [3]
The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the Southern United States at the turn of the 20th century and the great majority of victims were black.
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This prayer serves the purpose of expressing gratitude to God for restoring one's soul each morning. The specific prayer Modeh Ani , however, is not mentioned in the Talmud or Shulchan Aruch , and first appears in the work Seder haYom by the 16th century rabbi Moshe ben Machir .
Although in this case "set to music" is appropriate (since the lyrics existed before the music, as a poem), generally when speaking of a song, "written by" primarily means the composition of a music, not the words, (generally music is "born" first). Gloomy Sunday (as the English title) is a song, not a poem and credits and fame due to Seress ...