For Ze French Discolovers: DALIDA!

[Videoskooter]

Not bad, not bad at all! Legendary French singer and icon Dalida.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LEVx7RJVCo

[Mixmachine]

yeah, I like it, great disco song , I would've play it 8-) other than Jussiks mentions around here I know nothing about her, what year was this released?

[Videoskooter]

Mix, this is the remix that was released on the "Dalida The Queen" compilation from 2004 and it's a Cerrone production.

Here are other outputs with clips from her Disco-chansons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxMhkPxE9IQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfc7...elated&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N1n6...elated&search=

And her worldhit ( and my favourite) "Gigi L'amoroso"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl4yN...elated&search=

[remicks]

add my thumbs up .....8-)

yes what year is it from .... seems to use a mostly early style ... but yet some later sounds are in there too ..... ???


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[Videoskooter]

Great you like her guys!!!

This is another Disco-output from this great legend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_RrG...elated&search=

And here's the original version from "Laissez-moi Danser"

VERY VILLAGE PEOPLE!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WjTS...elated&search=

and another take:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5Al3c01B8&NR

[JussiK]

There's a brand new comp out now called Disco de Dalida, with medium length versions of the dancefloor hits. Gigi in Paradisco isn't the full gorgeous :icon_neutral: 13 min version nor does the cd contain the album-side long Ca Me Fait Rever, but you do get Va Va Va, La Femme est Nuit etc. And the Dalida biopic is also out now on dvd, region 2 that is.

[QUINNY]

It's better than I thought it would be. My only reservation (on first hearing) is that her vocal delivery sounds really stiff and mechanical.

[Videoskooter]

There's a brand new comp out now called Disco de Dalida, with medium length versions of the dancefloor hits

Thx Jussi, I didn't know. In fact it's a release from may/2006 so it must be available.

1. Besame Mucho
2. Confidences Sur La Fréquence
3. J'Attendrai
4. Kalimba de Luna
5. Laissez-Moi Danser (Monday, Thuesday)
6. Feuilles Mortes
7. Génération 78: Come Prima/Gondolier/Volare/Romantica/J'Attendrai/Darla
8. Rio Do Brasil [Version Maxi Club]
9. Amor, Amor
10. Femme Est La Nuit
11. Va, Va, Va
12. Femme (Smile)
13. Gigi in Paradisco
14. Americana
15. Darla Dirladada [D'après Folklore Grec]
16. Ça Me Fait Rêver: Guitar et Tambourin/Garde-Moi Dernière Danse/Tout l'A

[discolady75]

I've always loved Dalida, even before i loved Disco. Charismatic, Glamorous, Gorgeous, so Femme, so sensitive, I dont allow anybody to tell any bad about her in front of me. And i hate those tinny and queeny young gay guys who compares crap Mylene Farmer to the Great Dalida. Dalida is the Disco Diva, the Femme you will never be or have, but she is so human, so sad, so unhappy. At one point in my life i felt so much her sadness inside of her. She got the drama in her life and songs, i just love all her disco songs

She was incredible, and so Femme... in osmosis with her audience, i love her !

My fave :
- "Gigi in Paradisco", long version of course (13mn)
- Rio do Brazil" (the 12" is just brilliant with the 3mn break added to the end and an instrumental at the B face)
- "Generation 78" who starts with "Je connais toutes tes chansons..."
- her fab french version of Costandinos "Americana"
- her Disco version of classic french standard "j'attendrai"
- "Problemorama" works really great as smooth Disco
- "Femme est la nuit"
- "Besame mucho"

[discokicks]

Wonderful stuff! Thanks for the introduction to Dalida's music.

Listening and watching her mature, smooth delivery of her songs makes me understand more of what it is that I like about disco and, particularly, Eurodisco. It is a no-nonsense, joie de vivre naturalness that comes from the enjoyment of singing and dancing....much like those who take part in musical theatre.

I just love those female vocalists who perform a disco song with the same emotion and coolness that would be put into singing a ballad regardless of the busy percussion and drums, swirling strings and jabbing horns surrounding her.8-)

[Mixmachine]

I've always loved Dalida, even before i loved Disco. , I dont allow anybody to tell any bad about her in front of me. And i hate those tinny and queeny young gay guys who compares crap Mylene Farmer to the Great Dalida. Dalida is the Disco Diva, the Femme you will never be or have, but she is so human, so sad, so unhappy. At one point in my life i felt so much her sadness inside of her. She got the drama in her life and songs, i just love all her disco songs

She was incredible, and so Femme... in osmosis with her audience, i love her !

My fave :
- "Gigi in Paradisco", long version of course (13mn)
- Rio do Brazil" (the 12" is just brilliant with the 3mn break added to the end and an instrumental at the B face)
- "Generation 78" who starts with "Je connais toutes tes chansons..."
- her fab french version of Costandinos "Americana"
- her Disco version of classic french standard "j'attendrai"
- "Problemorama" works really great as smooth Disco
- "Femme est la nuit"
- "Besame mucho"

well, since you were talking about her in the past tense I had to check :o I didn't know she was no longer with us , :(

I was going to ask if her "Americana" was Constandinos' piece, and you just answered that for me.

Charismatic, Glamorous, Gorgeous, so Femme, so sensitive

Yes , those are some of the adjectives I would use after watching those video clips, She had this classic, refined and exotic female appeal. What a shame she left so young…:(

[Svend]

Dalida's remixed "Laissez-moi danser" is #1 on my iPod, although I must give equal credit to Cerrone's festive remix. I also bought "The Queen," a full CD of remixes and I am enjoying them all. It seems her voice was, naturally, perhaps a little warmer and more flexible when she was younger in the 60s and early 70s. Maybe it was the Gauloises!

From watching the Dalida videos posted on Youtube--I don't know, I can't explain it--but there is something very endearing about her. Something about her "presence" makes me feel rather protective of her.

[discolady75]

this great woman suffered her whole life, of being too beautiful, too weak and fragile. If you listen to her 70s records, except disco songs, you ll hear very sad, depressed songs. Her lyrics were writen as perfect dresses designer would make for her only.

"le slow de ma vie" : (slow dance of my life) alcohol to forget loneliness

"depuis qu'il vient chez nous" (since he comes home): she discovers her 10 years husband s turning gay since a young man s coming often home

"il venait d'avoir 18 ans" : (he was just 18) a young man gives himself to her, and left her as an old 30thing woman.

"ta femme" : (your wife) she s the second lover of a married man, and will miss the man she loves cos he got to go home..

"problemorama" : about life in general, problems and so on, everyday life hypocrisis "i'm ok"

"une femme à 40 ans" (a woman at 40) : she tells the facts and changes of 40thing age for a woman, very sensitive and smooth...

"j'attendrai" (i ll wait) : "i ll wait the whole day and night, i ll wait your come back".. and time is going and so on..

"les feuilles mortes" (leaving leaves) : past love is gone forever.. i used to love you, you used to love me... but life separates gently loving people, and the sea erases steps marks on the beach... depressing !!

in 80s "mourir sur scene" is just the resume of her life : "i want to die on stage" and she talks to Death " come, but dont come when i am alone,

etc.. etc... death, loneliness, abandon, sadness, drugs, alcohol,

i d say that dalida s songs are so strong in emotions. she unfortunately gave herself death in 1987. she wrote on a paper : "forgive me, but i cant stand life anymore"..
In Paris, there s a place with her name in Montmartre district and her statue... RIP... but her music will last forever

[QUINNY]

this great woman suffered her whole life, of being too beautiful, too weak and fragile. If you listen to her 70s records, except disco songs, you ll hear very sad, depressed songs. Her lyrics were writen as perfect dresses designer would make for her only.

"le slow de ma vie" : (slow dance of my life) alcohol to forget loneliness

"depuis qu'il vient chez nous" (since he comes home): she discovers her 10 years husband s turning gay since a young man s coming often home

"il venait d'avoir 18 ans" : (he was just 18) a young man gives himself to her, and left her as an old 30thing woman.

"ta femme" : (your wife) she s the second lover of a married man, and will miss the man she loves cos he got to go home..

"problemorama" : about life in general, problems and so on, everyday life hypocrisis "i'm ok"

"une femme à 40 ans" (a woman at 40) : she tells the facts and changes of 40thing age for a woman, very sensitive and smooth...

"j'attendrai" (i ll wait) : "i ll wait the whole day and night, i ll wait your come back".. and time is going and so on..

"les feuilles mortes" (leaving leaves) : past love is gone forever.. i used to love you, you used to love me... but life separates gently loving people, and the sea erases steps marks on the beach... depressing !!

in 80s "mourir sur scene" is just the resume of her life : "i want to die on stage" and she talks to Death " come, but dont come when i am alone,

etc.. etc... death, loneliness, abandon, sadness, drugs, alcohol,

i d say that dalida s songs are so strong in emotions. she unfortunately gave herself death in 1987. she wrote on a paper : "forgive me, but i cant stand life anymore"..
In Paris, there s a place with her name in Montmartre district and her statue... RIP... but her music will last forever

So how come you don't play her at your Disco parties? On your website you say you're not interested in playing her records. OR did I read that wrong?

[KoolChris]

Wow! I can't believe so many people (outside of France) enjoy her work! I can't help being bored listening to any of her songs. By the way, many of the early posted tracks were current remixes, made after Dalida died, and her brother and producer, Orlando, surfed on the nostalgic current still in effect by releasing "modernized" remixes and medleys of her stuff. I never bought it.

Many french artists at the time gained stardom (and money!) by making french versions of american hits (Johnny Hallyday, Claude Francois, etc...). This was particularly possible and credible, because US-pressed records were hard to get, the french market being overly (and unfairly) protectionist (by the '80s, import tax on an American automobile was 100% of the price of the car. YES, if you wanted to import a decent car to France, you had to purchase it once, pay for freight, then PURCHASE it in full once more once in Le Havre). Since the original records were hard to get, hence the general public had no access to them; it was fairly easy to translate a foreign hit and take the credit for it. She did pretty much that, adding in songs of Italian, Greek, and arabic origin. Not really doing anything crazy or noteworthy with her voice or the orchestrations.

Anyway, enough bashing for now; obviously, different people have different tastes, and some of my favorite tracks would probably not appeal to others here. Also, having lived in France for the past years, I couldn't avoid hearing too much of what I didn't like to start with. So my objectivity probably is lower than it should to apply as "objectivity". Just wanted to add some input on the cross-eyed "disco diva"...