Nana MOUSKOURI - Touch the wind (Eres tu)

[@PaulMcElveen]

I was born in 1978. I took Spanish all though high school and college! We sang Eres Tu in all of my Spanish classes in high school and college! The melody is beautiful! Nana Mouskouri does a beautiful job and so do the backup singers! I love both the English and the original Spanish lyrics. The English lyrics tell a completely different story and meaning than the original Spanish lyrics! Thank you for posting and sharing this classic performance! I love it!

[@G6JPG]

The "backup singers" are in fact The Kings' Singers, a well-known a capella group, with whom Nana has done several tracks; look out "The Three Bells" ("Jimmy Brown") by Nana and them.

[@graceharwood2858]

I had the Eres Tu album with Mocedades, and I wore it out. This version by Nana Mouskouri touches me that deeply.

[@johnsycamnias1780]

Absolutely beautiful. Perfect harmony and timing by Nana and the King's Singers.

[@rubyrm]

Wonderful to see these early videos of Nana's TV days.She did some great songs, and did them so well. Thanks for posting.

[@samboxed]

I got goosebumps everytime I watch this. Perhaps the best 'Eres Tu' Version. And Nana is fantastic as always with her rendition...

[@davidhibling]

Thankyou - this was a dream of mine a distant memory of a child watching a TV show I knew it happened I saw it and heard it long ago I wanted so much to see it again thank you

[@arallets]

Best version of this song ever, I'm speechless.

[@yuenkoi]

Amazing. The best version of this song by the extraordinarily talented Nana Mouskouri. Such a joy to look and listen to her singing. Thank you for sharing this gem.

[@trastuspies]

I've come to love the English lyrics as well as the original Spanish, totally different lyrics telling a different story. This version is beautiful too :)

[@paulnorton2885]

Yes. Eres Tu and Touch The Wind are different songs, albeit sharing a melody.

[@michaelhudecek2778]

I feel the exact same way as you!!! 😊😊😊😊😊

[@josianexxx8423]

Superbe comme toujours la Grande Nana 🌷

[@aliciapedevilla6943]

Gracias dulce Nana. Un placer escucharte siempre. Desde Argentina

[@jayemcintyre677]

Beautiful and pure voice singing one of the great tunes of our time.

[@thewind01]

I had this on some crappy VHS...and only rediscovered it recently and was amazed....I really do wonder if EVER we will get these BBC shows on DVD...?????

[@2007danman]

THANKS. Nice to hear an English version of Eres Tu. And, in addition with the lovely NM

[@shalimarsgirl]

It's a great song that will keep on playing somewhere in the world as long as the winds of love fill the hearts of dreamers.

[@dimitrissss]

A great song by a great voice. Thanks for the video.

[@milavranjkovic7169]

EXCELENTE. HERMOSO. MARAVILLOSA NANA. ELLA ES UNICA.

[@oniron8672]

Une voix céleste. Superbe interprétation, bravo Nana !

[@Blbbbb]

Lovely song sung by lovely Nana M ❤️❤️🌹

[@yuenkoi]

Simply the best version EVER!!!!!!

[@radiodf]

This is my all time favorite song, Done by one of my favorite singers. GREAT job Nana. As much as I love her music, I suspect English isnt her first/primary language. From what Ive heard her sing in Spanish, I bet she could blow the roof off w/ this done in Spanish. Cheers

[@G6JPG]

Her first language is Greek, but she is fluent in English, French, German, ... about six (and sings in 16 to 20, certainly including Spanish). She had her own show on the BBC - though always has an accent!

[@andrewpaul7363]

just lovely! one of my favourite eurovision songs!

[@grace53523]

I absolutely, love it!!!! Bravo Nana mou!!!!

[@NABBANA]

Excellent !!!! long time ago that I didn´t listen to this song... since I was a child... :-´( thank you so much...

[@kevinhickey3515]

Another one of the classics from Eurovision. They will always sound good. Severine for Monaco was another one! Nana sings it well...... No classics like this anymore....

[@Basilea.]

Amazing! I didn't even know there was an English version of this song. She sings it beautifully! Now I wish she had sung with Mocedades sometime...

[@henryfranqui7236]

....look up..perry como...he has and english version...with the same world has spanish...

[@davidhibling]

I love the Mocedades original with all my heart it is one of my favourite songs but Nana as she always did took a song and adapted it to make her own - both versions are stunning

[@G6JPG]

While I agree Nana is always wonderful, I don't think _she_ does the adaptations - though of course she chooses very well those who do. From other comments, it would appear that Mocedades themselves created this English version (not a translation). (Nana would still have had someone _arrange_ it for her, of course.)

[@davidhibling]

@@G6JPG Agreed ! Nana always surrounded herself with great musicians, producers, sound engineers, translators/adaptors especially Pierre Delanoe in France,. But for all the collaboration it is finally her voice that makes the finished product. Yes I believe Mocedades did the original English version and yes not a direct translation. I have always loved this song both the Spanish and English versions. Nana never recorded the song only sang it 'live' but loved her for singing it and loved Mocedades singing it too - great memories!

[@MrEla59]

Bravo Nana mou!!

[@Blbbbb]

Love this song. ❤️😊👍

[@PepoteRedondo]

One of the best songs ever......the great JUAN CARLOS CALDERON was the compositor....and the versión of the spanish group MOCEDADES the best.....vocalist AMAYA URANGA,,,amazing wonderful voice.

[@lopedevega2947]

you´re right !!

[@danielfurtado3489]

Maravilhosa versão, Brasil presente 🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@herbenmanuel]

la srta. nana, que belleza para cantar con tanto sentimiento, felicidades.

[@richfolkes]

I would dare to say that the tune of the song "Eres Tu" was derived from the tune of "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley in the movie "Blue Hawaii" in the same manner as "Chopsticks" was derived from the Hungarian Rhapsody Op. 2 by Franz Liszt. Note the similarity of the tune in "Cant' Help Falling in Love" (verse) and the "Eres Tu" (chorus).

[@kumasenlac5504]

+Richard McLaughlin 'Can't Help Following in Love' is generally accepted as a modification of the French chanson 'Plaisir D'Amour'. The more notable similarity is that between the quality of tone of Nana Mouskouri (who did a killer version of 'Plaisir D'Amour') and Amaya Uranga who underpinned 'Eres Tu'.

[@ChimeraAZ]

Eres Tu doesnt sound like Cant Help Falling in Love to me at all.

[@richfolkes]

If you can understand musical notation, please listen carefully to the first two bars of the verse of "Can't Help Falling in Love ", then the first two bars of the chorus of "Eres Tu", you'll notice the similarity. The similarity ends in the next two bars of the verse and chorus of the two songs respectively.

[@G6JPG]

Yes, I heard that similarity for a bar or two - thanks for reminding me what the other tune was. Though I wouldn't say enough of it is similar to say it's derived from that.

[@lopedevega2947]

great version thanks for sharing

[@mireyagarcia2331]

De esta version mo sabia....Grande Maestra

[@ludovico2810]

Que comentarios se pueden hacer sobre Nana si las palabras faltan para tanta belleza....

[@roelofvandermerwe5208]

nice version

[@kimberlylongman8299]

Awesome!

[@wisconacho]

Thumbs up wooot!!!

[@narcovice]

shes very preety this is the only english song ive heard like the other laguage better

[@kenimisoncanada]

This english version uses exactly the same words as the english verion mocedades reorded - Mocwdades should feel someone as great as Nana Mouskouri covered it.

[@jovetj]

I prefer the Spanish version also. There's also a fine line between "vibrato" and "bleating like a goat".

[@pbot1959]

Mocedades, the group that introduced this song, recorded this English version long before Nana did this performance. True, these English lyrics have nothing to do with the Spanish version, but think of it as an adaptation.

[@kenimisoncanada]

Its very good in BUT it always be best as 'ERES TU" no matter who sings it.

[@G6JPG]

Anyone know what year? A lot of Nana's work with the Kings' Singers was 1974, but I don't know for this one.

[@macstras]

This one was definitely 1974. Nana sang it again in 1976 (kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4Woo4Vrq9iArqs)

[@G6JPG]

@@macstras Thank you very much! I see that was with the Kings' Singers too. (Would it be possible always to put the year, in the title or the comments? I have to ask this question a lot!)

[@nkul12345]

Original pesm is called "Brez Besed" and not "Eres tu" or any other title. Berta Ambrož performed this song on Eurovision 1966

[@furpurr]

@arizonapatriotforus no, it is just another beautiful song, with the same beautiful melody. ;)

[@Albarriko]

Nana sing like an angel, but this song belong to Amaya and Mocedades

[@strawberryseason]

her voice is nice and she does a great delivery ... though the English lyrics are not at all a translation of the Spanish ones. It is the same song only in terms of the melody. I think that the Spanish lyrics are more unique and beautiful.

[@donovanity]

LOLEST!!!! thats so true..

[@TheLudo3]

Im spanish, thanks for your opinion

[@kimberlylongman8299]

People on the Spanish version called me a liar!!

[@tomkelly5495]

You what is funny is Nana Mouskouri speaks Spanish very well ,So she could of done it in the original language .

[@jethyy]

Yeah the Spanish version flows better and is more melodious.

[@rafael938]

What is the point of getting not translated but adapted other (very different) lyrics than original to a song?

[@G6JPG]

Fitting words to a tune is difficult. Sometimes, a translation fits well - but sometimes it doesn't, however hard you try. There is nothing wrong with putting different words to a tune - it has been done for centuries! Look at several hymn tunes (those also often have two or more tunes to the same words!), and Beethoven's ninth, for example.

[@kfccfk]

nice glasses

[@rabit818]

A very different song in English.

[@arizonapatriotforus]

The lyrics ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT LOST ALL ITS MEANING!

[@G6JPG]

Not lost - just different. Someone who gets to know the English song might have exactly the same reaction if they heard the Spanish one! One of Nana's first hits - Ta Pedia Tou Pirea - in the original Greek, is a prostitute singing about how she likes the lads of Pirea (a Greek port); its English version, Never on a Sunday, is completely different! And in German, it was at first translated from the English (Nie am Sontag), then completely different words (a ship will come). [Which became a hit for Lale Andersen, best known for Lili Marleen!] Nana - and Mireille - sing lots of songs in multiple languages; sometimes the words are a translation, sometimes they're a completely different story.

[@oscarhh3168]

Tina Fey sieht wie Nana Mouskori aus.

[@mariaeduardatrevisan7448]

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[@lcvd1]

Great song and singing, but a song that has nothing to do with the spanish lyrics is a no, no! I'm sure something could've been done to relate it more to the original lyrics. I doubt Juan Carlos Calderon (the composer) had anything to do with these lyrics.

[@G6JPG]

(Did he compose the Spanish words as well as the music?) Doesn't matter - lots of songs (by lots of people) are completely different in other languages. There is skill in getting words to fit a tune, whether they are a translation or something completely different. (I don't know who wrote the English words, but there are websites dedicated to that sort of thing, often with lyric in the host name.) [Later: apparently Mocedades themselves created this English version.]