La française Claudine Longet doit sa carrière de chanteuse à sa rencontre avec le chanteur américain Andy Williams . Alors qu'elle est danseuse à Las Vegas, il tombe sur elle non pas dans les coulisses des Folies Bergères où elle s'exerce, mais au bord d'une route où elle est en panne. Ils se marient en 1961, Andy l'introduit dans son réseau, la fait participer à ses shows et va lui permettre d'enregistrer 7 albums, essentiellement composés de reprises, entre 1967 et 1972 sous les labels A&M Records et Barnaby . [...]
In 1967, Vicky Leandros hit #4 at the Eurovision Song Contest with the bittersweet kitsch ballad L'amour est bleu, written by space age pop pioneer André Popp . While Vicky scored a modest hit, as well as Claudine Longet a few months later, it was French orchestra leader Paul Mauriat – kind of the Gallic pendant to American muzak lightster Ray Conniff – who made ten tons of bucks with the song, topping the US charts with his key party warm-up version for five consecutive weeks in spring 1968. The same year, covers [...]
Saint Etienne - I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You (Claudine Longet) | zs
I don't intend to spend Christmas without you - Claudine Longet I think i'll make a Christmas mix for someone/no one this year. I decided yesterday as a spirit exercise to listen to every Christmas or holiday related song i have, and i long for those days when the only cool, obscure Christmas song i knew was the Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping . I have hours and hours of these songs, all because every band in the world it seems has this emulous responsibility [...]
French moeurs intertwined with sixties psych. Tweet Facebook
Let's take a trip to Rio on this late Monday night. Luiz Bonfá isn't exactly a household name, but in the 50s and 60s, he played guitar for and with Joao Gilberto, Sergio Mendes, Stan Getz, George Benson, and Frank Sinatra, and wrote Almost in Love for Elvis. In 1956, he collaborated with pianiste extraordinaire Ed(uardo) Lincoln on Noite e Dia, which contains a most easygoing and highly artistic instrumental version of Charles Trénet's 1942 classic Que reste-t'il de nos amours. My friend Matthias knows the lyrics by heart. A perfect way to attract them filles. [...]
Tweet We're extremely proud to present the first free digital single on our netlabel EardrumsPop : Tiny Fireflies . This is Lisle and Kristine from Very Truly Yours ' new side-project (- or Kristine from Tiny Microphone and Lisle from Fireflies ). The single includes three lovely, dreamy indiepop songs (one of them a cover of Skeeter Davis' 60s hit "The End Of The World", inspired by Claudine Longet's version of it). As usual, the cover art is outstanding, - this [...]
Couple of days ago, I took the liberty to admit that, yea, though I love experimental noise and saxophone drillers, I also love exotica and lounge. There's only so much nostalgia I can write about in one week, after all, this is 2010. But maybe because it's 2010, and the speed of events, the zeta-bytes of information, and our hurry to achieve whatever it is we're trying to achieve, that makes us all unease and turn us to three year old infants when it comes to our lack of ability to focus and stick to one thing. [...]
The second mix of Beatles covers comprises songs from the group's 1967-68 period, ending rather abruptly in the middle of the White Album selection. So the third mix will carry on with songs from that double album (leading with the Beach Boys doing Back In The USSR). There are some quite unexpected covers. Ella Fitzgerald singing Savoy Truffle? Soul group The Moments singing Rocky Racoon, of all songs? Some performers are also surprising. Bill Cosby, for example. The stand-up comic did an album of covers in 1969, including Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It's not mugging for [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales For Claudine Longet, the shooting was horrible. The French ingenue and her husband, crooner Andy Williams, were dressing for a late-night rendezvous with their good friends Bobby and Ethel Kennedy. Bobby was on television, making a speech from the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning California's Democratic primary that day in June 1968. Just after finishing, the presidential candidate was ushered through the hotel kitchen, where he was assassinated. A few days later, Williams sang a moving version of 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' [...]
Claudine Longet . Love is Blue
We've had 800-pound gorillas in the room before, but with 64, one song so dominates that it seems to have cowed most sensible songwriters into submission. Let's be clear: 64 has never been a popular number in song titles ("64 Bars on Wilshire" by ace jazz guitarist Barney Kessel notwithstanding). But since the Beatles made "When I'm Sixty-Four" in 1967, they have simply owned the number. The song is a modern standard. It's instantly recognizable by young and old, yet it's one of the most atypical songs in the Beatles canon. Not because it doesn't rock—from the very start, the [...]
If you haven't figured it out already every MP3 on 24 Hour Party Pooper , save the ones in this post and the Bear Hunter ones posted just below, are dead . Hopefully, not permanently. I'll have to either migrate them or get my current file server to be more cooperative but you should be able to get your Gang of Four and Talking Heads rarities again soon enough. ------------------------------ ------------------- This always happens. I do a huge post about a single album and then I'm creatively spent for a [...]
Some people like to get their holiday shopping done early. I decided to get my holiday blogging done early. So this year I'm posting a bunch of holiday songs all at once--call it a compilation if you like, or think of it as me stopping by to D.J. your Christmas party without having to deal with me drinking up all your eggnog, insulting your guests and throwing up on your sectional. Individual tracks are available for download by right clicking on the links, or you can just download a zip file of the whole thing. 1. [...]
" I feel so strong that I can't disguise. But I just can't apologize." Claudine Longet ~ Let's Spend The Night Together from Let's Spend The Night Together by Claudine Longet complete lyrics in comments photo: Lanie & Leyla ~ Lace Mordi Loves Claudine
Claudine Longet - Meditation (French version)
Great song. To bad they didn't do a whole album of Christmas music. SERGIO MENDES & BRAIL '66 :: THE CHRISTMAS SONG
CLAUDINE LONGET - I DON'T INTEND TO SPEND CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU. obvious, but totally necessary!
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