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Never On Sunday (ver. 1) by Manos Hadjidakis - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
Never on Sunday is a popular song. The music was written by Manos Hadjidakis, with original Greek lyrics also by Manos Hadjidakis. The original Greek title is Τα Παιδιά του Πειραιά (Ta Paidiá tou Peiraiá) which translates as "The Children of Piraeus", and is the title commonly used in Greece. The original Greek lyrics do not make any mention of Sunday anywhere in the song. The song was published in 1960, and introduced in the movie of the same name, directed by Jules Dassin and starring his wife Melina Mercouri. The original Greek lyrics and also the foreign translations in German, French and Italian are true to the character of the Illya, the female main character of the movie. Illya is a jolly woman who loves life and the town and the people of her native Piraeus. And although she earns her money as a prostitute, she longs to find.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Manos Hadjidakis (Greek: Μάνος Χατζιδάκις) (October 23, 1925 – June 15, 1994) was an Academy Award-winning Greek composer. He was born in Xanthi, Greece. In 1960 he received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his Song Never on Sunday from the film of the same name. He is widely popular among Greeks and can be credited with the introduction of bouzouki music into mainstream culture. His very first work was the tune for the song Paper Moon (Χάρτινο το Φεγγαράκι), from Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre of Athens, a collaboration which continued for 15 years. His first piano piece, "For a Small White Seashell" (Για μια Μικρή Λευκή Αχιβάδα) came out in 1947 and in 1948 he shook the musical establishment by delivering his legendary lecture on rembetika, the urban folk songs that flourished in Greek cities, mainly Piraeus, after the Asia Minor refugee influx in 1922 and until then had heavy underworld and cannabis use.
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