few months ago, today a curious story about a song on a radio program. It was a damn song, if, as we hear, a damn song. And not because today has given me to seek information about the song, and that he had no title or anything.
was composed in 1933 by the Hungarian Rezso Seress (music) and Laszlo Javor (lyrics), going unnoticed until 1936, when it began to be connected to a series of suicides, so the banned Hungarian authorities. Such censorship drew the attention of the Americans who did not waste the opportunity and the end of 1936 had a significant number of versions.
Legend has it that were more than 17 suicides related to Gloomy Sunday in Hungary before the song was banned. Connections are established when it was learned that people were killed during or after listening song, referring to the song in their suicide notes, or were found with a sheet with the lyrics of the song in his hands.
says there are over 100 voluntary deaths related to the song. Another legend that Laszlo Javor wrote the lyrics of the song in memory of his girlfriend who, as a single bounce, after crossing the gate, just left a "Gloomy Sunday" stamped in the middle of a blank sheet. Rezso Seress finally became part of those victims of the song in 1968 after jumping from a building in Budapest. Gloomy Sunday has been interpreted several times by several singers.
Among the singers that have interpreted are Billie Holliday who first made known in the 30's, Heather Nova, Elvis Costello, Bjork, Sarah Brightman, Sinead O'Connor, Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch and Paul whiterman, among others.
In 1999 the German Rolf Schübel directed a film based on that song, bearing the same title, "Gloomy Sunday". Excerpted from www.granjaloca.com
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