Amsterdam (Jacques Brel song)

1964

Amsterdam is a Belgian -born singer of chanson Jacques Brel. In the form of a crescendo, it describes the partly desert and bustle of sailors on shore leave in the red light district of the Dutch capital Amsterdam.

Formation

The melody of Amsterdam is ajar away to the English folk song Greensleeves. Jacques Brel himself took the chanson not in a studio version, since he did not really like it, according to his arranger François Rauber. The only Brel obtained recording is on his live album Enregistrement Public à l' Olympia 1964 from the Olympia in Paris - yet the song to one of the most popular compositions of chansoniers was.

Selection of known interpretations

Amsterdam was one of the songs, which transferred Mort Shuman for his 1968 listed in New York musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris into English. Numerous musicians interpreted it then again and again and translated into other languages, Amsterdam.