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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 01:01 pm
letty, be sure and check out frankie j on my songs that tell stories thread. It's a better song, but be prepared to cry if you do.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 01:10 pm
bjork and la boheme - both very good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUYF73aI3I&feature=fvst
Leonard Cohen, from his first album, in 1968
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 02:27 pm
Francis, I don't want a translation of La Boheme. La BoHEme is beautiful as it is. The same way with Charles Trenet's La Mer. It's the hypnotic sound of the language that is enough.

edgar, I listen to Daddy's Little Girl, and it did make me cry.

Leonard's The Stranger has many interpretations. I love him regardless.

Somehow,Leonard's song made me think of this one. Another one to cry by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bare05gNH88&feature=related

Glad she was okay after falling out of her "bird" house. What a woman.!

Francis
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 02:31 pm
@Letty,
Are you about to swoon, Miss Letty?
Letty
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 02:47 pm
@Francis,
Francis, you are funny. I'll bet I would have swooned had I heard this guy. Razz

Bob Dylan may have.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL7wdUPXpiM

Mario Lanza as well, and of course Rudolph Valentino.

Thanks for drying up my tears.



edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 03:49 pm
@Letty,
Tramp on the Street is a particular favorite of mine. I have a fine version of it on Bull Durham Sacks and Railroad Tracks album by Ramblin Jack Elliot.
Like that one by Caruso. He did almost as good as Dylan would have. Oops. I thought is was finished.


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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 04:04 pm
Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have in the studio Mr Jackson Browne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuvXrTz8DY
Letty
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 04:20 pm
@edgarblythe,
Jackson Browne is great, edgar. Love The Load Out, buddy. Just saw that he used to be a member of the Eagles. Thanks for that one, Texas, and for your comment on Joan's wonderful song.

I thought Caruso's aria was just one as well. Obviously they ran the gamut with four versions.

Here's a tango by Valentino as done by Anthony Dexter. It ends too abruptly. I think having seen this movie made me a fan for life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGjZufkzlaQ

The "rose in the teeth" idea may have come from the lady who put a rose on his memorial stone. If I'm not mistaken, that was the real story behind Long Black Veil

edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 04:48 pm
Background
The writers later stated that they drew on three sources for their inspiration: Red Foley's recording of "God Walks These Hills With Me", a contemporary newspaper report about the unsolved murder of a priest, and the legend of a mysterious veiled woman who regularly visited Rudolph Valentino's grave. Dill himself called it an "instant folksong."

Wilkin played piano on the original recording by Frizzell. The song was a departure from Frizzell's previous honky tonk style and was a deliberate move toward the current popularity of folk-styled material and the burgeoning Nashville sound.

[edit] Success
Recorded in Nashville in 1959 by Lefty Frizzell and produced by Don Law, the single reached No. 6 on Billboard Hot C&W Sides chart. In the process, the song became Frizzell's best-performing single in five years.

[edit] Cover versions
"Long Black Veil" has become a standard and has been covered by a variety of artists in country, folk and rock styles. The biggest cover version was a No. 26 country hit by Sammi Smith in 1974.

edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 04:55 pm
@Letty,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s5QPngTp98&feature=related
Doc

Entertaining video. Still don't 'get' Valentino. Razz
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 04:58 pm
@edgarblythe,
Wow! Thanks for that info, edgar. Speaking of which, I just found out that the "bobby soxer" generation really did swoon over "Old Blue Eyes".

Here's what love is all about in a nutshell. (Where is George ob 1? Razz )

The sync isn't the greatest, but I think we all get the idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9qcGGBN3-c&feature=related

Oops, Missd the doc's Curly Headed Baby, buddy.

Back to acknowledge in a bit. You don't get Valentino? That's cause you is a man.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 06:09 pm
I love that Sinatra song. I almost always enjoy the studio recordings more than 'live' versions of songs, but I will take that one any way he presents it.

Someone once said, "You are too loose, letrec." I see what was meant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1IITfgrGHA
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Barry The Mod
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 06:18 pm
Evening Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvEYg16GtL8&feature=related
King Curtis & The Kingpins - Soul Serenade.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 06:32 pm
edgar, that was funny. You gave me an evening smile with that "too loose" bit. You're right about "old blue eyes".

Hey Brit, Welcome back. Soul Serenade was great. I recall that I missed the mark the last time you played King Curtis. Now I recall that he was killed when he was young.

Here's an answer to edgar's art video by "the loose man".

The original Moulin Rouge was far better than the remake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFm1LYLL_-c

Incidentally, Texas, I found out that your Doc Watson outlived his son. Great blues song by him.

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 06:44 pm
I never saw that film, but I am a fan of Lautrec, John Houston and Jose Ferrer.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 06:48 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m-euOarB0k
Here is one about doggin me around.
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Barry The Mod
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 07:14 pm
Ain't never gonna forget the summer just gone....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od5WdxsRCt0&feature=related
Booker T & the MG's - Summertime.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 07:57 pm
edgar, loved Jackie Wilson's Stop Doggin me Around. Great. I bet you thought your art by the loose man with the music got by me. That was a tango at the end. Razz Strange, I thought that Doc Watson's song was going to be about a baby.

Ah, Brit. Loved Summertime by the BookerT 's and the MG's. I sang that once.

Summertime, when the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high.

Your daddy's rich, and your mammy's good lookin'
So hush little baby don't you cry.

Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do so with two songs.

First, to match Enrico, Paul Robeson's Curly Haired Baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob0YKZdHCZw&feature=related

Now Mario singing Omar.

No visuals, but it matches the dark night here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gctsjHLbx4Y

odd, my moon was always a man, but Walter De La Mare's is a woman.

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breast peep
Of doves in silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws and a silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

-- Walter de la Mare

Rather like Charles saw the ocean as a woman, and Bobby saw it as a man.

This one is funny, y'all.

http://media.pegasusnews.com/img/photos/2009/03/26/moon_man.jpg

Of course we landed on the moon.

Been a great day and evening on our cyber radio, thanks to all of our contributors.

Goodnight, world.

From Letty with love







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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 08:21 pm
I knew Robison's Curly Headed Baby. When I found Doc Watson's song I was actually looking for one called She's My Curly Headed Baby by Pete Seger.
Mario - I like every song I have heard by him.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 08:22 pm
Love Booker T and King Curtis also.
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