I did a quite detailed presentation of the Springfields, and I also mentioned his songwriting and producing later career for acts like the Seekers. I think that should cover it. Did I miss anything special? Today's story was long enough anyway. I'm on the move a lot in the summer and don't always keep up with the internet--even my favorite blog! I can't believe I missed Dusty. I'm always game to a Dusty song that I don't know - and this was a good one.
Thanks again, AFHI, and double thanks for calling this your favorite blog. You've made me blush! Thank you my friend! After 36 hours of headache, I'm finally free of it.
I hope that everything is well with you! I'm sorry to hear about that marathon headache yianang. I get those from time to time and they are debilitating, especially when even sleep doesn't help.
Love the Shirley Bassey take. Dusty did a good take on that one has well. Her French is super sexy! Great call Afhi. Dusty and Scott give superlative readings as usual. Love this song! Not to beat a dead horse, but the first time I paid any attention to this song was when I bought the album "Love in a Mist" by Marianne Faithfull. She spoke perfect school girl French, and her recording was in French--"Ne me quitte pas.
Scott also did a great version of this song. I see the problem now, if anybody's still listening. For whatever reason, when Marianne recorded "I Will Wait for You" in French, she or someone decided to call the song "Ne me quitte pas" rather than the usual "Je ne pourrai jamais vivre sans toi.
This trap was set for me 50 years ago, and I obligingly fell in. I will turn in my pop critic credentials. OK you guys. I've been working, so I couldn't answer your comments before. Never mind you put it there by accident, I loved hearing it again. To return the gifts of both, here are three French versions of Ne me quite pas that I love.
I think you're right about the Brel version. And all this talk of Brel has given me an insight that was probably obvious to everyone else. The song "Jackie" is a play on Jacques Brel's own name. It always pays to go back to the original. The Bowie is the only one of these I'd seen. Judy Collins also did a lot of Brel on her early albums. I always liked her version of Marieke.
John Denver is really due for reevaluation. Calypso is one of the few "hit" songs from the '70s that I can bear listening to. I like his version of "Amsterdam," and he's in great voice, but I think I prefer Scott's.
The Brel was new to me--what a challenging piece! Another Virgin Spring. California Weekend. Click the gadget to listen to samples from the CD. Sleeve Notes: by Noel Harrison. The titles on this CD take me back to what was an extraordinary period of my life; the birth of the counterculture, when the youth of the West were filled with Idealism, and psychedelics.
What a Kick! When I Was 20, I started playing professionally, around the tables in a Greek restaurant in London, for meals and tips. I graduated to cabaret and private parties. Princess Margaret came to one of them, with her entourage of Lords, Ladies, and gentlemen. The flustered MC introduced me as Rex Harrison my illustrious and brilliant father.
I came on onstage and said. I made a living playing in bars and nightclubs all over Europe at the beginning of the 60s. For one reason or another - mainly thanks to my managers Bob Chartoff and lrwin Winkler, who went on to produce the Rocky films among many, other distinguished achievements - I hit it of with the press and public, and before I knew it I had a record on the charts A Young Girl which unfortunately is not on this CD —wrong record company and was starring in an NBC -TV series with Stefanie Powers, The Girl from U.
At the age of 83, Bassey tackles an incredibly eclectic repertoire. A delightfully vintage detour for a timeless pop queen. Shirley Bassey — Overture 2. Good, Bad but Beautiful.
Love, Life and Feelings. You Take My Heart Away. All by Myself. I Am What I Am. La mujer. Sassy Bassey. The Bond Collection - The 30th Anniversary. Sings the Movies. The Great Shirley Bassey. The Show Must Go On. Back to Back. The Power of Love. Bassey Sings Bond. The Performance. Hello Like Before. Dame Shirley Bassey.
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