hey louis, why is johnny smith so underrated?

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OF THESE THREE FABULOUS SINGERS OF THE MID FIFTIES, WITH THE GREAT JOHNNY SMITH playing his delicate guitar, who do you love best: the ever so shy jeri southern, the eternally young beverly kenney ... or the mysterious ruth price?

jeri southern/johnny smith/without a word of warning (1956)
un chef d'oeuvre d'équilibre entre la voix timidement sexy de jeri southern et le minimalisme cristallin de johnny smith, guitariste aux doigts d'eau, qui se glisse, timide lui aussi, derrière le piano de bob pancoast


ruth price/johnny smith/until the real thing comes along (1956)
une sublime ballade sentimentale signée cahn/chaplin, susurrée par la très méconnue ruth price, sur un lit de notes cristallines du grand johnny smith

hey louis, it's blossom dearie, ever so charming, and strangely close to beverly kenney's lolita phrasing, but without her vocal range ...

blossom dearie/l'étang (in french, great paul misraki song)/hello love
two great songs from her best album, my gentleman friend (1959)

hey louis, don't you think this very rare peggy lee's last recording is her best ever?

peggy lee, i see you/1995 (benny carter, composer and alto sax)
(in BENNY CARTER/songbook, vol 1)
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et sept ans plus tôt, en 1988, pour son dernier et sublime album "jazz", LOVE HELD LIGHTLY, consacré aux chansons rares ou inédites de harold arlen ...

peggy lee/my shining hour (johnny mercer/harold arlen)
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et quarante ans avant I SEE YOU (BENNY CARTER, SONGBOOK 1) ...
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peggy lee/i only have eyes for you/sugar (from pete kelly's blues, 1955)

hey louis, do you really hate rock and roll?

peggy lee/till there was you (1961)

the beatles/till there was you (1962)


ONE OR TWO THINGS I KNOW ABOUT BEVERLY KENNEY
deux ou trois choses que je sais sur la sublime beverly kenney ....

before her untimely death in 1960, beverly kenney wrote a song: i hate rock and roll ....
she sang it on may 1958, on the steve allen show ...

i'm growing weary of teenage hoods/motorbikes, blue jeans and natalie woods
i'm tired of rebels without a cause/say, whatever happened to santa claus/rules of the road and baby ruth?
i for one must tell the truth/i don't care who knows it
i hate rock and roll/i don't care who knows it
i hate rock and roll

i want to say I love you/in the natural way
don't want to say/i luh-uh-love you
no, not that way/i don't care who knows it
i hate rock and roll

young luh-ove, true luh-ove is over-rated
and blue suede shoes/they should be confiscated
what is the answer to a teenage prayer?
frankly speaking i don't care, i don't care

i don't care who knows it/i hate rock and roll
i don't care who knows it/i swear that i hate rock and roll

i don't want to swing a hip/or swing a guitar
or anything to do with that ver-nac-u-lar
i don't care who knows
so I'm last on the hit record polls/cause i hate rock and roll
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POST SCRIPTUM 1

sylvia syms/there's somehing about an old love, barbara carroll, piano (1952)
sinatra's favourite crooning lady ("the world's greatest saloon singer", he used to say)
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POST SCRIPTUM 2

jimmy durante/september song (kurt weil/maxwell anderson, 1955.
if you want to see other skorecki produced videos of SEPTEMBER SONG (among them a longer version of the song by jimmy durante, recorded eight years later with lots of violins, in 1963, as well as three different sinatra versions -one of them with gordon jenkins from sinatra's best album, no one cares, a nat king cole reading, the willie nelson version ....) as well as two new clips i produced of jimmy durantes' fabulous collaborations with gordon jenkins (les violons ont TOUJOURS RAISON), go to youtube and you'll find them easily .. ... ou demandez-moi, je les mettrais dans le blog .....

BOB DYLAN/FRANK SINATRA

bob dylan/she's your lover now, outtake from blonde on blonde
almost as beautiful as dylan's greatest concert -and greatest bootleg- melbourne, april 1966

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another 1966 live concert

bob dylan/desolation row (1966)
same voice/less destroy than in the blonde on blonde outtake, or in melbourne/moins éclaté, moins émouvant qu'à melbourne, quelques jours plus tôt ...













bob dylan/knockin' on heavens's door/it's a hard rain's gonna fall
crying for the pope
pleurant pour jean paul II, à bologne (jewish tears, cantor's voice)

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TWO VERSIONS OF A HARD RAIN'S GONNA FALL


bob dylan/a hard rain's a gonna fall, 1964

BOB DYLAN/2008

bob dylan/a hard rain's a gonna fall, version inédite pour la foire de saragosse, en 2008

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TWO VERSIONS OF SERIES OF DREAMS

bob dylan/series of dream, le clip (1987)

bob dylan/series of dream, version live (1993)


frank sinatra/nancy with the smiling face (1965)
une chanson sublime dédiée à sa femme, nancy

younger than springtime (1967), en présence de l'autre nancy, la jolie nancy sinatra, fille de madame sinatra ...
production/arrangements: lee hazelwood (on le voit au début du clip)
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frank and his daughter nancy sinatra/you make me feel so young, 1957
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DEEP NIGHT/three fabulous versions

frank sinatra, 1951, official version

frank sinatra, 1941 (with tommy dorsey) introduced (in spanish) by the composer of the song, the great rudy vallée

rudy vallée's version, 1929 (the best one ...)
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COUNTRY SINATRA

three COUNTRY songs by frank sinatra

BONUS COUNTRY

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love's been good to me
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FRANK SINATRA SHOW, 1955

If I could be with you


FRANK SINATRA SHOW, 1955/everything happens to m













bob dylan/she's your lover now, outtake from blonde on blonde
almost as beautiful as dylan's greatest concert -and greatest bootleg- melbourne, april 1966

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another 1966 live concert

bob dylan/desolation row (1966)
same voice/less destroy than in the blonde on blonde outtake, or in melbourne/moins éclaté, moins émouvant qu'à melbourne, quelques jours plus tôt ...













bob dylan/knockin' on heavens's door/it's a hard rain's gonna fall
crying for the pope
pleurant pour jean paul II, à bologne (jewish tears, cantor's voice)

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TWO VERSIONS OF A HARD RAIN'S GONNA FALL


bob dylan/a hard rain's a gonna fall, 1964

BOB DYLAN/2008

bob dylan/a hard rain's a gonna fall, version inédite pour la foire de saragosse, en 2008

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TWO VERSIONS OF SERIES OF DREAMS

bob dylan/series of dream, le clip (1987)

bob dylan/series of dream, version live (1993)


frank sinatra/nancy with the smiling face (1965)
une chanson sublime dédiée à sa femme, nancy

younger than springtime (1967), en présence de l'autre nancy, la jolie nancy sinatra, fille de madame sinatra ...
production/arrangements: lee hazelwood (on le voit au début du clip)
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frank and his daughter nancy sinatra/you make me feel so young, 1957
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DEEP NIGHT/three fabulous versions

frank sinatra, 1951, official version

frank sinatra, 1941 (with tommy dorsey) introduced (in spanish) by the composer of the song, the great rudy vallée

rudy vallée's version, 1929 (the best one ...)
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COUNTRY SINATRA

three COUNTRY songs by frank sinatra
BONUS COUNTRY

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love's been good to me
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FRANK SINATRA SHOW, 1955

hey louis, here's the great and obscure irene kral

irene kral/alan broadbent (piano)/never let me go (1975)
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... le retour de LOUIS et des
CINEPHILES


louis rostain/le retour des cinéphiles (2008)
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harold manning/cinéphiles 2 (eric a disparu) (1988)

hey louis, c'est quoi pour toi le cinéma, aujourd'hui?

le cinéma?

rien, j'ai peur que ce ne soit plus rien, juste quelques bribes de souvenirs, ou plutôt des souvenirs d'un temps où j'avais encore des souvenirs de cinéma.
les films d'aujourd'hui?
je n'en vois plus, ni en salles, ni à la télé, ni en dvd, et le pire c'est qu'à regarder quelques secondes d'extraits télé, je sais si ça va être mauvais ou très mauvais...
le dernier film que tu as vu?
les témoins de téchiné, je l'ai vu il y a dix minutes, je savais que je n'aimerais pas, les extraits télé et les interviews étaient atroces, mais c'est pire: un téléfilm larmoyant, artificiel, mal joué, mal construit, même pas compassionel, l'un des pires de téchiné, cinéaste médiocre qui n'a réussi qu'un seul film, hôtel des amériques, un beau mélo criard en scope couleurs comme on en faisait encore de temps en temps au siècle dernier ...

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le cinéma, aujourd'hui, c'est ça:

bobby troup/their hearts were full of spring (1958)
minimal crooning, greater dreams: ... cinema ....

hey louis, here's a sampler of the great dylan 1966

bob dylan/just like tom thumb's blues (1966)
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ten videos of 1966 dylan concerts can be seen at
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=41DC5B3251C63269

hey louis, it's a great late dick curless demo ... and a fantastic jimmy durante song with gordon jenkins

jimmy durante/gordon jenkins, a way of life (1964)



dick curless/when dad was around (1988)
just before he died, dick curless recorded several rare, classic, touching, demos for his daughter, now they've come out on BEAR FAMILY'S hard hard travelling man ....
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more dick curless at the bottom of this page ....

all dylan 2000 is now on april 8 (cardiff, etc ....)

bob dylan/frankie lee and judas priest (cardiff, 2000)
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all 16 videos of cardiff 2000 can also be watched on

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=96AA3B2855A55E6C