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Gloomy Sunday, the Glossary

"Gloomy Sunday" (Hungarian: Szomorú Vasárnap), also known as the "Hungarian Suicide Song", is a popular song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933.^[1]

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Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist.

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The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body.

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Agustín Magaldi

Agustín Magaldi Coviello (December 1, 1898 – September 8, 1938) was an Argentine tango and milonga singer.

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Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Am I Not Your Girl?

Am I Not Your Girl? is the third album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor and the follow-up to the hugely successful I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got.

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Angelina Jordan

Angelina Jordan Astar (born 10 January 2006) is a Norwegian singer whose audition for the 2014 season of Norway's Got Talent at the age of seven, singing "Gloomy Sunday" in the style of Billie Holiday, became a viral video online and brought her worldwide press coverage.

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Anna von Hausswolff

Anna Michaela Ebba Electra von Hausswolff (born 6 September 1986) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and pipe organist.

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Anton LaVey

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Artie Shaw

Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Atrocities (album)

Atrocities is the fourth studio album by American rock band Christian Death, released in 1986 through record label Normal.

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Babylon Berlin

Babylon Berlin is a German neo-noir television series.

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Ben Becker

Ben Becker (born 19 December 1964) is a German film, theatre and voice actor.

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Big Maybelle

Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as Big Maybelle, was an American R&B singer.

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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer.

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Billy Mackenzie

William MacArthur MacKenzie (27 March 1957 – 22 January 1997) was a Scottish singer and songwriter, known for his distinctive high tenor voice.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress.

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Branford Marsalis

Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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Bucky Fellini

Bucky Fellini is the third studio album by The Dead Milkmen.

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C minor

C minor is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, flat, F, G, flat, and flat.

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Capitol Studios

Capitol Studios is a recording studio located at the landmark Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, California, United States.

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Carmen McRae

Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.

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Christian Death

Christian Death is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles County, California, in 1979 by Rozz Williams.

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Copycat suicide

A copycat suicide is defined as an emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media.

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Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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Creed Taylor

Creed Bane Taylor V (May 13, 1929 – August 22, 2022) was an American record producer, best known for his work with CTI Records, which he founded in 1967.

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Danny Michel

Danny Michel is a Canadian artist, songwriter and producer.

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Dax Riggs

Dax David Riggs (born October 15, 1973) is an American musician, best known for fronting the sludge metal band Acid Bath in the 1990s.

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Desmond Carter

Herbert Desmond Carter (15 June 1895 – 3 February 1939) was a British lyricist who worked with George and Ira Gershwin, Ivor Novello, and others, and also wrote one of the first English language versions of the notorious "suicide song", "Gloomy Sunday".

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Diamanda Galás

Diamanda Galás (born August 29, 1955) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and visual artist.

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Eila Pellinen

Eila Pellinen or Eila Reima (6 August 1938, in Sulkava, Finland – 10 April 1977, in Espoo) was a Finnish singer.

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Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod

Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (Gloomy Sunday – A Song of Love and Death) is a 1999 film, a German/Hungarian co-production.

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author and television presenter.

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Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn Liddell (born September 22, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, author, and violinist.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Erika Marozsán

Erika Marozsán (born 3 August 1972) is a Hungarian actress.

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Etta Jones

Etta Jones (November 25, 1928 – October 16, 2001) was an American jazz singer.

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Famine

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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Gitane DeMone

Gitane DeMone (also spelled Demone) is an American singer, musician and visual artist.

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God

In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.

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God Save The Smithereens

God Save The Smithereens is the sixth studio album by The Smithereens, released on 19 October 1999 on Velvel/Koch Records.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greta Keller

Margaretha "Greta" Keller (8 February 1903 - 11 November 1977) was an Austrian and American cabaret singer and actress, who worked in some Hollywood movies and television dramas.

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Hal Kemp

James Hal Kemp (March 27, 1904 – December 21, 1940) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger.

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Hans Koller

Antonio Hans Cyrill Koller (12 February 1921 in Vienna – 21 December 2003 in Vienna) was an Austrian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.

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Heather Nova

Heather Nova (born Heather Allison Frith, 6 July 1967) is a Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet.

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Herbie Mann

Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music.

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Hildegarde

Hildegarde Loretta Sell, known as Hildegarde (February 1, 1906 – July 29, 2005) was an American cabaret singer, who was well known for the song "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup".

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Hot Club de Norvège

Hot Club de Norvège is a string jazz quartet from Norway, established in 1979, by guitarist Jon Larsen with childhood friends Per Frydenlund and Svein Aarbostad.

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Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Isyana Sarasvati

Isyana Sarasvati (born 2 May 1993) is an Indonesian singer-songwriter and the founder of REDROSE RECORDS.

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Iva Bittová

Iva Bittová (born 22 July 1958) is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer.

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Ivan Linn

Ivan Linn is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur, investor, and music programmer.

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Jaurim

Jaurim (meaning "Purple Rainforest") is a rock band from Seoul, South Korea.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jimmy Witherspoon

James Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American jump blues singer.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (November 15, 2022).

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Karin Krog

Karin Krog (born 15 May 1937) is a Norwegian jazz singer.

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Katalin Karády

Katalin Karády (8 December 1910 – 8 February 1990) was a Hungarian actress and singer.

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Ketty Lester

Ketty Lester (born Revoyda Frierson; August 16, 1934) is an American singer and actress known for her 1961 hit single "Love Letters", which reached the top 5 of the charts in the U.S. and the UK.

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Kronos Quartet

The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco.

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La Luna (Sarah Brightman album)

La Luna (Italian and Spanish for "the Moon") is the seventh album recorded by English soprano Sarah Brightman in 2000.

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Lajos Dudas

Lajos Dudas (born February 18, 1941, in Budapest, Hungary) is a German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist and composer.

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László Jávor

László Jávor (May 4, 1903 – December 2, 1992) was a Hungarian poet and painter who wrote the poem that was the basis for the song "Gloomy Sunday", composed by Rezső Seress, later also notably recorded by Billie Holiday.

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Leander Rising

Leander Rising (formerly known as just Leander) was a Hungarian metal band.

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Lights Out (Peter Wolf album)

Lights Out is the debut solo album by Peter Wolf, released in 1984.

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List of songs banned by the BBC

This article lists songs and whole discographies which have been banned by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) over the years. Gloomy Sunday and list of songs banned by the BBC are songs banned by the BBC.

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London Concertante

London Concertante is a chamber ensemble, performing classical chamber music repertoire, along with gypsy and Latin American music such as the tango compositions of Piazzolla.

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Lorez Alexandria

Lorez Alexandria (born Dolorez Alexandria Turner; August 14, 1929 – May 22, 2001).

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Lou Rawls

Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American baritone singer.

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Lucía Jiménez

Lucía Jiménez Arranz (born 21 November 1978) is a Spanish actress.

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Luis Russell

Luis Russell (August 5, 1902 – December 11, 1963) was a pioneering Panamanian jazz pianist, orchestra leader, composer, and arranger.

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Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch; June 2, 1959)Martin Charles Strong.

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Mallorca

Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Marc Almond

Peter Mark "Marc" Almond (born 9 July 1957) is an English singer best known from the synth-pop/new wave duo Soft Cell and for his distinctive soulful voice and androgynous image.

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Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English rock singer.

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Marie-Louise Damien

Marie-Louise Damien (born Louise Marie Damien; 5 December 1889 – 30 January 1978), better known by the stage name Damia, was a French singer and actress.

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Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler (born April 5, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Matt Elliott (musician)

Matt Elliott is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter, originally from Bristol, England and now based in France, who plays dark folk music.

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Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed "the Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest.

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Mercedes Simone

Mercedes Simone (April 21, 1904, Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires - October 2, 1990) was an Argentine singer and actress, known as "La Dama del Tango" ("The Lady of Tango").

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Mickey Baker

MacHouston "Mickey" Baker (October 15, 1925 – November 27, 2012) was an American musician, best known for his work as a studio musician and as part of the recording duo Mickey & Sylvia.

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Mieczysław Fogg

Mieczysław Fogg (born Mieczysław Fogiel; 30 May 1901, Warsaw3 September 1990, Warsaw) was a Polish singer and artist.

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Music video

A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.

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Noriko Awaya

was a Japanese female soprano chanteuse and popular music (ryūkōka) singer.

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Norske Talenter

Norske Talenter (English: Norway’s Got Talent, Norwegian Talents) is a Norwegian talent show with a similar format to Britain's Got Talent, making it one of the Got Talent franchise programmes.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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NRG Ensemble

NRG Ensemble was an American free jazz ensemble founded in the late 1970s by saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell.

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Page Cavanaugh

Walter Page Cavanaugh (January 26, 1922 in Cherokee, Kansas – December 19, 2008 in Los Angeles) was an American jazz and pop pianist, vocalist, and arranger.

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Pallbearer (band)

Pallbearer is an American doom metal band from Little Rock, Arkansas, formed in 2008.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Paul Robeson

Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances.

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Paul Whiteman

Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.

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Pauline Byrns

Pauline Byrns (May 6, 1917 – September 18, 1990) was an American singer who recorded successfully in the swing era of the late 1930s and 1940s, notably with Artie Shaw and the vocal groups Six Hits and a Miss and The Starlighters.

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Pál Kalmár

Pál Kalmár (Kalmár Pál) (September 5, 1900 – November 21, 1988) was a Hungarian pop singer who is noted as being the first singer to perform "Gloomy Sunday".

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Peter Wolf

Peter Wolf (born March 7, 1946) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of The J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983 and as a solo artist.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Poverty

Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.

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Priscilla Chan (singer)

Priscilla Chan Wai-han (born 28 July 1965) is a Hong Kong singer.

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Pyotr Leshchenko

Pyotr Konstantinovich Leshchenko (Ukrainian: Петро Константинович Лещенко; Пётр Константинович Лещенко; 2 June 1898 Isayeve, Odessa uezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) – 16 July 1954 Bucharest), a singer in the Russian Empire, and later Romania, is universally considered "the King of Russian Tango" and specifically known for his rendition of "Serdtse"—a tango, sung unusually not in Spanish but in Russian.

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Quadro Nuevo

Quadro Nuevo is a German acoustic quartet which was founded in 1996 by guitarist Robert Wolf, reedist Mulo Francel, accordionist Andreas Hinterseher and bassist D. D. Lowka.

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Queen of Siam (Lydia Lunch album)

Queen of Siam is the debut solo album by American artist Lydia Lunch, released on February 9, 1980 by record label ZE.

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Radio network

There are two types of radio network currently in use around the world: the one-to-many (simplex communication) broadcast network commonly used for public information and mass-media entertainment, and the two-way radio (duplex communication) type used more commonly for public safety and public services such as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery services.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday

Also known as Gloomy Sunday urban legends, Hungarian Suicide Song, Szomorú Vasárnap.

, Hot Club de Norvège, Hungarian language, Hungary, Isyana Sarasvati, Iva Bittová, Ivan Linn, Jaurim, Jazz, Jimmy Witherspoon, John Williams, Karin Krog, Katalin Karády, Ketty Lester, Kronos Quartet, La Luna (Sarah Brightman album), Lajos Dudas, László Jávor, Leander Rising, Lights Out (Peter Wolf album), List of songs banned by the BBC, London Concertante, Lorez Alexandria, Lou Rawls, Lucía Jiménez, Luis Russell, Lydia Lunch, Mallorca, Marc Almond, Marianne Faithfull, Marie-Louise Damien, Marissa Nadler, Matt Elliott (musician), Mel Tormé, Melody Maker, Mercedes Simone, Mickey Baker, Mieczysław Fogg, Music video, Noriko Awaya, Norske Talenter, NPR, NRG Ensemble, Page Cavanaugh, Pallbearer (band), Paris, Paul Robeson, Paul Whiteman, Pauline Byrns, Pál Kalmár, Peter Wolf, Popular music, Poverty, Priscilla Chan (singer), Pyotr Leshchenko, Quadro Nuevo, Queen of Siam (Lydia Lunch album), Radio network, Ray Charles, Rezső Seress, Ricky Nelson, Rossz Csillag Alatt Született, Sam M. Lewis, Sarah Brightman, Sarah McLachlan, Sarah Vaughan, Satan's Cheerleaders, Serge Gainsbourg, Severija Janušauskaitė, Sheet music, Sinéad O'Connor, Stan Kenton, Stormy Weather (AT&T album), String quartet, Suicide, Sulk, Swing music, The Associates (band), The Dead Milkmen, The Hal Russell Story, The Kovak Box, The Singer (Diamanda Galás album), The Smithereens, The Tenants Downstairs, To ostatnia niedziela, Torment and Toreros, Urban legend, Venetian Snares, Viktor Klimenko (singer), Vlado Kreslin, World War II, Wristcutters: A Love Story, YouTube.

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See also

Great Depression songs

Hungarian songs

Paul Robeson songs

Sarah Brightman songs

Serge Gainsbourg songs