Lyr Req: never on a sunday (answered)

Subject: never on a sunday
From: Rasta
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 03:40 AM

OOOOh please dont get mad at me i know its not a folky tun e but im playin Nursing homes and im lookin for lyrics to (never on sunday) i think pet clark did it on an album but does anyone know . thanx rasssttttaaaa

Subject: Lyr Add: NEVER ON SUNDAY (Connie Francis)
From: Quincy
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 05:22 AM

Is it this one Rasta?

Never on Sunday
Connie Francis

Oh, you can kiss me on a Monday a Monday a Monday
is very very good
Or you can kiss me on a Tuesday a Tuesday a Tuesday
in fact I wish you would
Or you can kiss me on a Wednesday a Thursday a
Friday and Saturday is best
But never ever on a Sunday a Sunday a Sunday
cause that's my day of rest

Most anyday you can be my guest
Anyday you say but my day of rest
Just name the day that you like the best
Only stay away on my day of rest

Oh, you can kiss me on a cool day a hot day a wet day
which ever one you choose
Or try to kiss me on a grey day a May day a pay day
and see if I refuse

And if you make it on a bleak day a freak day or a week day
Well you can be my guest
But never ever on a Sunday a Sunday the one day
I need a little rest
Oh, you can kiss me on a week day a week day a week day
the day to be my guest


best wishes, Yvonne

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: never on a sunday
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 05:24 AM

Hi, Rasta - here it is, at piano-bar.com (click).
Have fun!
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: never on a sunday (answered)
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 07:47 AM

With perhaps the most annoying tune in the entire world...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: never on a sunday (answered)
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 11:25 AM

This song by Manos Hadjidakis has been butchered by many American singers. Listen to Nana Mouskouri sing it in Greek on Fontana LP 885.514 MY. Ta Pedia Ton Pirea. Don't know if it has been reissued on cd.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: never on a sunday (answered)
From: masato sakurai
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 11:51 AM

Since I saw the movie Never On Sunday many years ago, my memory is faltering, but I think Melina Merkuri (who became a Cabinet member of the Greek government later) danced, singing it. One of the recordings (not a soundtrack version, but by a German(?) orchestra) is HERE.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: never on a sunday (answered)
From: masato sakurai
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 12:12 PM

Sound clip sung by Mercouri (this spelling) is HERE. ~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: never on a sunday (answered)
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 01:14 PM

The first version, non-vocal (11:51 AM) is possibly an instrumental by the Athenians, who backed Mercouri on several tours and recordings (for a while, she was married to their leader). The second is a reliable Greek version, at least on the short clip. The original lyrics are titled People of Pireus (Ta Pedia Ton Pirea). I should have mentioned that the LP mentioned above was a French release but was distributed in N. Am.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: never on a sunday (answered)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 08:33 PM

Lyrics need verification....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: never on a sunday (answered)
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 07:24 AM

I have a sheet music version of this in an old songbook, United Artists copyright 1960, with music by Manos Hadjidakis and lyrics by Billy Towne. The lyrics quoted above in this thread are identical to that, but the piano arrangement of the music (in Eb) is a typically rather bland (westernised) version of the bouzouki playing, apart from the opening (and in between verse) motif, which sounds about right to me. Someone else could probably name the Greek scale used, but it differs from the Ionian with sharp second and fourth notes.

The lyrics are as corny to my mind as some find the tune to be, which was why I once produced a parody for a work shy friend:

I like to rise and shine each morning, each morning, each morning,
I’m up and dressed the first.
I love to see each new day dawning, day dawning, day dawning,
With joy I’m fit to burst.
But never ever on a Monday, a Monday, a Monday,
I’d rather breathe my last.
Oh, why can’t it still be Sunday, be Sunday, be Sunday?
Sundays go by so fast.

But then I reckon, when the weekend beckons, I dance every second, a joy to be alive.
A born weekender, I go on a bender, a compulsive spender, and not just Nine to Five.

And likewise never on a Tuesday, a Tuesday, a Tuesday,
Any day that ends in Y.
I’d rather crawl beneath my duvet, my duvet my.....
And curl back up and die.
And never ever on a Wednesday, a Wednesday a.....
The weekend’s so far from sight.
I think Midweek should be a Saint’s Day, a Saint’s Day, a.....
To celebrate both day and night.

And never ever on a Thursday, a Thursday, a.....
I’m worn out and rather wan.
Too late in the week to be a workday, a workday, a.....
The week is almost gone.
And never ever on a Friday, a Fr......
All weekdays are too much.
Unless of course it is a High Day, a High....
Bank Holiday or such.

I think I’m going to throw a sickie, a sickie, a....
I’m looking rather pale.
My stomach really feels so dicky, so d....
It needs some settling ale.
I’m sure I’ll not be missed for one day, for one.....
Whilst I go and get half cut.
But never ever on a Monday, a .....
The poxy pub is shut.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: never on a sunday (answered)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 10:08 PM

I concur with Jerry.

Mr. Joe, I am not sure what you are asking for.

Never on Sunday
Esteem Music Corp. and LLee Corp.
1960
Words by Billy Towne
Music by Manos Hidjidakos

SOURCE
This Is The Ultimate Fake Book, Volume Two
Hal Leonard Publishing 1985 Winona MN
p. 393

Bd7 -Ed

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Fun lively - what I consider a Basa Nova