BUTTE ROUGE, LA
Created on 26/10/2024Latest update on 26/10/2024
Artist: Marty
Author: Monthélus/Georges Krier
Label: Perfectophone
Year: 1923
Francis Marty was a tenor with the Monte Carlo Opera and this "chanson humanitaire", an anti-war poem written in 1919 by Gaston Mardochée Brunswick (alias Monthélus), mourns the massacred in the trenches and on the hills around the Somme in the Champagne region, colouring red from the blood. By the time this recording was made, those hills were vineyards again, so if you drink that wine, think of the thousands who perished on that soil.
Covers:
- 1955:
- 1973:
Wim De Craene [as De Rode Heuvel; Dutch lyrics: Jaap van de Merwe; more titles De Craene covered from Jaap: Lege Buik, Meneer het Kamerlid, 't Is Om De Poen Te Doen and Recht Naar De Kroegen En De Wijven (see: Ballade de bonne doctrine à ceux de mauvaise vie)]
- 1981:
- 1993:
Kristien Dehollander [on We Died In Hell, They Called It Passchendaele]
- 1997:
- 1999:
Motivés [alias Zebda on cd Chants de lutte]
