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)
...
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)
...

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

hey louis, remember cardiff 2000, best dylan concert since melbourne 1966?

bob dylan/frankie lee and judas priest

don't think twice, it's allright/things have changed

cold irons bound/forever young

searching for a soldier's grave/watching the river flow

blowin' in the wind/blind willie mc tell

like a rolling stone/tombstone blues

highway 61/tryin' to get to heaven

country pie/tangled up in blue

desolation row

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ALL OF DYLAN'S 2000 selection is now VISIBLE on 07/04/08
great stuff, maybe the best concerts since 1966 ...

hey louis, c'est le retour de louis (et des cinéphiles)

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HEY LOUIS, DON'T YOU THINK BOB DYLAN HAS NEVER BEEN AS GOOD AS IN 2000 ... since his great 1966 concerts?

bob's best line up ever?
larry campbell, david kemper, tony garnier, charlie sexton ....

a hard rain's a gonna fall

desolation row

tell me that it isn't true

if dogs run free

love sick

lenny bruce/mama you've been on my mind

you ain't goin' nowhere/highway 61

everything is broken/ring them bells

song to woody

4th time around, 2000, betlehem
..

hey louis, DON'T YOU THINK BOB DYLAN IS GETTING WORSE IN 2001, although he has exactly the same band?

BOB DYLAN 2001


4th time around, 12 juillet 2001, liverpool

mississippi/tangled up in blue

man in the long black coat/this wheel's on fire

boots of spanish leather/desolation row

visions of johanna/just like a woman

positively 4th street/leopard skin pill box hat

things have changed/i shall be released

knockin' on heaven's door, liverpool 2001
(les sept chansons qui précedent sont aussi de liverpool, 2001)
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BONUS 2008

spirit on the water/25 mars 2008/mexico
this song is only two years old (in modern times, 2006), that's why it's not completely destroyed ....

hey louis, is it true you love al bowlly more than bing crosby ... and even more than sinatra?

al bowlly/my melancholy baby

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le retour du jeune sinatra

frank sinatra 1/the last call for love/1942 (avec tommy dorsey et les pied pipers)

frank sinatra 2/ i could'nt sleep a wink last night, 1946 (avec michèle morgan)
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le retour de dick haymes ...

dick haymes, 1948/speak low (kurt weil)
le grand rival de sinatra face à ava gardner ... le grand amour de sinatra
(ce n'est pas la voix d'ava, elle est doublée par eileen wilson)
le film s'appelle one touch of venus, il est de 1948)
...

hey louis, c'était quoi déjà, le cinéma?

dean martin's/sway, 1950 (his first big hit)

hey louis, tu es sûr que c'était ça, le cinéma?

pola negri en 1925 (et pourtant, je déteste le cinéma muet/ou plutôt, il m'a toujours été indifférent/i just like talking movies/je n'aime que le parlant, les paroles ....)

pola negri/a woman of the world (malcolm st clair, 1925)

mazurka/pola negri (1935)

mazurka/damia, 1935 (version française/je sens en moi)

mazurka/germaine sablon, 1936 (version française/je sens en moi)

mazurka/zarah leander, 1942 (version suédoise)

hey louis, where do the beatles come from?

louvin brothers

louvin brothers/everly brothers

blue sky boys/beatles
...
WHAT ABOUT THE BEACH BOYS?

hi lo's/ beach boys

hi lo's ... ... + + + ... frank sinatra

hey louis, here's great texas music: guy clark, steve young, townes van zandt ... (HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS, 1975)

guy clark/desperadoes waitin' for a train

townes van zandt/waitin' around to die

steve young/alabama highway)

richard dobson/for ever, for always, for certain

larry jon wilson/ohoopee river bottom land
in this great 1975 film, you'll also see a great version of hank williams' i'm so lonesome i could cry by steve young, the first version of townes van zandt's pancho and lefty, and great early texas songs by steve earle, rodney crowell, john hiatt ... SEE THE FILM IN DVD, you'll never forget this impression of sincerity, freshness, friendship .. and pure musical genius ...

hey louis, isn't will oldham from another planet?

bonnie prince billy/weaker soldier (copenhague, 2007)

bonnie prince billy/strange form of life (jaffa, israel, 2007)