Turkish Disco - with help from Costandinos!

[darrens]

I just stumbled across this little video on youtube. It's of Ajda Pekkan, one of Turkey's most successful singers; she is still going strong today after 40 years recording.

Although being largely based in Turkey, in the mid 70s she found herself in Paris singing in Turkish at sell-out concerts in Olympia. Around this time she must have hooked up with Alec Costandinos, as he produced her French language LP "Pour Lui" in 1978.

This video is of the first track on the LP, "Combien Je t'aime", which you'll all recognise as a French language version of "You're the most precious thing in my life".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDyk6HoPV9Y

Apparently, so I read somewhere, the LP has been released on CD, but I can't see it (or the LP) listed anywhere.

Ajda can also been seen on youtube singing her 1980 Eurovision Song contest entry for Turkey. The song's called "Petr'oil" (yes that does mean Petrol) and it did rather badly. She should have got Alec to write her something!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lXdNU1TSSg

[Videoskooter]

Just discovered this other 1, don't know if it has already been posted :icon_arrow:

Ajda Pekkan: "Un amour qui s'en va"

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

This video is of the first track on the LP, "Combien Je t'aime", which you'll all recognise as a French language version of "You're the most precious thing in my life".

This track is infinitely better in French, than in English.