Happy holidays. I don't believe in Christmas miracles, but if I did, I'd be praying for one to save Etta James. The iconic 73-year-old rhythm and blues singer is terminally ill, suffering from leukemia, Hepatitis C and dementia. The online media already erroneously reported her passing in August. Now it's only a matter of time. I'm not sure what song I was listening to when I fell for James. It certainly wasn't "At Last," the one for which she is perhaps best known, which, honestly, never quite did it for me. It was more [...]
If it's December, then you know it's Mixmas time at You Ain't No Picasso! Each year I get a bunch of my favorite bands to contribute themed mixes and share their thoughts about each of the tracks. MP3: Daniel Martin Moore - The Trawlerman's Song (Vashti Bunyan cover) Kentucky's Daniel Martin Moore has been influential [...]
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"Where Did You Sleep Last Night" wurde weder von Kurt Cobain noch von Leadbelly geschrieben. Die Wurzeln des Stücks reichen bis ins 19. Jahrhundert zurück. Leadbelly - "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" (1944) Die Credits von "Nirvana Unplugged" bezeichnen die Folk-Legende Leadbelly als Urheber von "Where Did You Sleep Last Night". Kurt Cobain hatte das Stück durch Mark Lanegan kennengelernt, der von seinem Vater eine Schellackplatte mit der Version von Leadbelly geerbt hatte. Beide waren [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Don Kirshner, the businessman and songwriter who created the Monkees and helped launch the careers of several iconic performers, died Monday in Florida. According to a press release, the 77-year-old passed away from heart failure. Known as "The Man With the Golden Ear," Kirshner was born in 1934 in New York City. He entered the music business in the late '50s as [...]
Thirteen classic Yiddish songs in stunning performances by artists Jewish and non-Jewish.
This one appeared for the first time on the old blog in our Cahiers du Cinéma series, without the new extras. Italian brunette Caterina Valente isn't very famous for her movies, though she appeared in a good dozen, her first one being the prostitution melodrama Party Girls for Sale a.k.a. They Were So Young – released in 1954, the same year she hit it grand with her German version of Cole Porter's I Love Paris, re-titled Ganz Paris träumt von der Liebe (The Whole of Paris Dreams of Love) and selling more than half [...]
Connie Francis may not have rocked but she certainly was on a roll in the early sixties.
Connie Francis may not have rocked but she certainly was on a roll in the early sixties.
John Grant 's Queen Of Denmark album is a slow-burning beauty of a record. It'll appear on every hipster's Best Of 2010 list, yet I doubt it did so much as graze the outer reaches of the stalest charts since I don't know when. All the hippest of hipsters like to keep these things to themselves, y'see, so they can say " told you so " when the time is perceived to be right. Queen Of Denmark is melancholic, melodic, Midlake-mentored and as richly produced as anything from the Golden Year of [...]
We don't know about the rest of you ne'er-do-wells, but we're standing by our man David Letterman during this whole sex-with-employees/extortion mess. Having the National Organization for Women asking for your head on a platter can't be too much fun, y'know? But after a week of scandal and speculation, we've had enough time to reflect on what's happened and offer up some constructive ideas for how to lighten the mood around the Ed Sullivan Theater. We'd suggest that the Late Show 's ace bandleader, Paul Shaffer , incorporate a few new tracks into their already impressive [...]
Italian brunette Caterina Valente isn't especially famous for her movies, though she appeared in a good dozen, her first one being the prostitution melodrama Party Girls for Sale a.k.a. They Were So Young (And So in Danger!) – released in 1954, the same year she hit it grand with her German version of Cole Porter's I Love Paris, re-titled Ganz Paris träumt von der Liebe (The Whole of Paris Dreams of Love) and selling more than half a million copies. Most of Valente's hits came from the German Schlager alley, a back street of pop most people rightly [...]
Pearl Harbor's music is one that connotes taking the most awesome sailboat trip of your life in the marina where Dennis Wilson drowned. Somehow his spirit floats to the top and incarnates itself into these rather young-looking purveyors who have based themselves upon that familiar sound.
It's difficult to imagine '50s pop icon Connie Francis live on stage. When it comes to living legends, there is an expected margin of disappointment involved, as naturally they cannot live up to their former powers. Keeping this in mind, I took a distant seat at Coney Island/Brighton's Seaside Park, setting up among a crowd of older folks. It was a different sort of experience from the very start. Small squabbles over chair territory, folks striving to see, and lots of nostalgia in the heart of the crowd brimmed to the surface throughout the course of [...]
Connie Francis: Everybody's Somebody's Fool [ Purchase ] I've never been a fan of April Fools Day as I am not a fan of practical jokes, but come April 1st it seems like "everybody's somebody's fool". Connie Francis made sweet pop confections in the 1950s and 60s, including her mega-hits "Who's Sorry Now?" and "Where The Boys Are". "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" was her first hit single though, and features a more upbeat tone, despite the heartache expressed in the song. As the song expresses, none of us can [...]
Connie Francis - My Foolish Heart
Paying Frommage to Rock and Roll's Pioneers 50 years ago today - that's right - 50 freakin' years ago, these were among the tunes that sat atop the Cashbox Top 100 . The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The definitive rhythm and blues of 1959 pop, finally #1 on the chart after 3 straight weeks playing second fiddle to The Chipmunk Song . Connie Francis - My Happiness - Predating her records with [...]
It's the first day of Winter, the longest night of the year (YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! WE GET MORE DAY LIGHT AFTER TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!) so I thought I would share some of my favorite winter songs, and some not so familiar winter songs. Starting off the festive solstice, here's another one that could be categorized under "lost radio treasure." Surely a song that doesn't get nearly enough spin time on the radio these days... Milan-Wintertime It's perhaps one of the coldest days/nights of the year here, perhaps one of the coldest nights [...]
Connie Francis's story really is the stuff of legends. A tale that has just about everything you could conceive from someone who has recorded over 70 albums, rivalled Madonna in record sales and has endured terrible tragedy along the way. It's the absorbing story of a woman who was the prototype US female pop singer. Concetta Rosemarie Franconero was born of Italian American parentage and began playing accordion at the age of three. At ten years old, she was accepted on Startime, a New York City television show that featured talented child singers and [...]
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