There is one Turkish folk song called "Ayağında Kundura".
She’s wearin’ shoes [now that’s a useful piece of information]
Oh, she’s wearin’ shoes
I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die, oh woe!
I’ve wasted that young life of mine
Beating my chest all along
And now I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die, oh woe!
I’m a poor guy in love! Oh woe, I’m gonna die!
etc.
They say this song is primarily associated with İbrahim Tatlıses who allegedly “made it famous”--with his rustic macho image and whatnot.
Well, bollocks -- I mean, not for me.
“Ayağında Kundura” is the first song on a Zeki Müren album called “Hayat Harcadın Beni” (“Life, You Wasted Me”). I love this album because it is as close to actually having a concept as a Turkish traditional music album can be. Your mind pictures a 1) drunken, 2) cross-dressed Zeki Müren sitting in some Rumelian tavern with a glass of rakiya in his hand, recounting his experiences.
This song is followed by other fine songs like “Esmerim” (“My Dark-Skinned Brunette”) and “Odam Kireç Tutmuyor” (“Can’t Paint My Room With Lime”, whatever that means).
Recently, Turkish recording industry finally graced us with a LIVE Zeki Müren CD called “Lunapark”. I won’t give a link to the front cover on the grounds of public decency, but I can tell you that it pictures Sanat Güneşi wearing one of his mini skirts and a pair of platform boots. So we have a cross-dressed Zeki Müren apparently performing in an amusement park… (OK, not really: “Lunapark” seems to be the name of a night club after all.)
The date of the recording is unknown. And, as usual, the material has been maliciously tampered with: the applause got reshuffled for some reason, and selected pieces of it are reappearing over and over again at most inappropriate moments.
So here we have a hoarse-voiced, tipsyish and окончательно укатившийся куда-то по наклонной плоскости Zeki Müren singing songs from “Hayat Harcadın Beni”.
An example of total abandon :-D:
The угар continues with this:
And here’s how the whole thing ends:
ZE-Kİ!!! *clap clap clap*
ZE-Kİ!!! *clap clap clap*
"Oh woe". :-)
2 comments:
"lunapark"... isn't this the place in ankara where he used to perform ? it was situated in the "central park" (genclik parki) now abandoned to promoters.
Well, you are right, this was a night club inside the park:
http://sozluk.sourtimes.org/show.asp?t=lunapark+gazinosu
Also, earlier I saw this poster which says it's a "music hall":
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q201/drusilla_clack/Zeki-Muren-Fatma-Girik__18504823_0.jpg
But when I first heard about that "Live in Lunapark" album, I couldn't help but imagine him singing on a stage right in the middle of an amusement park, with ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds in the background. :-)
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