out of this world (september song)

walter huston's original 1938 version of september song (with victor young's orchestra)

this is the longer version of september song .... singer is actor walter huston (john's older brother), who was somewhat limited in range but for whom composer kurt weill and lyricist maxwell anderson wrote this specially ... the song originally appeared in the broadway show knickerbocker holiday in 1938 .... the song was recorded in 1938 and 1944 ... this is apparently the 1944 version ... ...nobody puts the same longing and melancholy into it as walter huston ... except maybe old jimmy durante ...

jimmy durante, who tought what soul music was to ... young frank sinatra ...

frank sinatra's earliest radio version (1946)/sarah vaughan, with clifford brown on trumpet

johnny hartman's classic version .... and old pot smoking rebel countryman willie nelson

... et la vf sublime de jean sablon (merci philippe) ...

écouter dans les commentaires d'autres versions très belles: robert wyatt (avec pascal comelade), june christy, ella fitzgerald (version impeccable, avec paul smith au piano), et enfin celle de madame kurt weil elle-même ... lotte lenya ...

out of vaudeville (best of beverly)

les cinq premières chansons, absolument sublimes de légèreté et de précision, de born to be blue (1959), le plus bel album de beverly kenney, suicidée à 28 ans en 1960 ... ...

ball and chain, version primitive de sweet lorraine (beverly kenney avec johnny smith, 1956)/comparer avec la voix enrouée, presque masculine, de jeri southern (même époque, même accompagnement minimal du grand johnny smith à la guitare)

back to vaudeville (emmett miller on film)

around 0.42, on the right of the screen, facing another blackface, ches davis, you'll see and hear the only time emmett miller did his famous yodel (or falsetto) on film ... no one had the idea of asking him to sing ... this hollywood vaudeville effort (yes sir, mr bones, 1951), came out at a time black minstrels were nearly a thing of the past ... emmett miller died in 1962, at the age of 62, in the very place where he was born, macon georgia ...

emmett miller and ches davis doing their blackface comic routine ... still no singing ...