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The History and Lyrics of the Song


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday

Gloomy Sunday with a hundred white flowers
I was waiting for you my dearest with a prayer
A Sunday morning, chasing after my dreams
The carriage of my sorrow returned to me without you
It is since then that my Sundays have been forever sad
Tears my only drink, the sorrow my bread...


"Gloomy Sunday" (from Hungarian "Szomorú vasárnap", IPA: ['somoruː 'vɒʃaːrnɒp]) is a song written by László Jávor and set to music in 1933 by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress, in which the singer mourns the untimely death of a lover and contemplates suicide.

Though recorded and performed by many singers, "Gloomy Sunday" is closely associated with Billie Holiday, who scored a hit version of the song in 1941. Due to unsubstantiated urban legends about its inspiring hundreds of suicides, "Gloomy Sunday" was dubbed the "Hungarian suicide song" in the U.S. Seress did commit suicide in 1968, but most other rumors of the song being banned from radio, or sparking suicides, are unsubstantiated, and were partly propagated as a deliberate marketing campaign.[1] Possibly due to the context of the Second World War, Billie Holiday's version was, however, banned by the BBC.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday

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But you are talking about the famous song "Gloomy Sunday" (which I LOVE).

The song in this film is "Boku no Hana" (AKA "My flower") written and performed by former AKB48 member Michiru Hoshino, under the alias "Michiko Goi" (the real life single and the ending theme), and the song throughout the movie is the same but performed by former idol Iyo Matsumoto.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language IMDb = Catch-22

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