THE SINGER NOT THE SONG LA CANCIÓN DE PRÉVERT · 17

THE SINGER NOT THE SONG
LA CANCIÓN DE PRÉVERT · 17

1. The Singer Not The Song
Patti Palladin

This Rolling Stones cover by Patti Palladin first appeared on the compilation Destination: Bomp! (1994).

2. C'mon Everybody
NRBQ

'C'mon Everybody' plus NRBQ equals just fun rock 'n' roll.

3. Mais que nada
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66

Mais, que canção!

4. Baby vá embora
Parallèles

'Where Did Our Love Go' as 'Baby vá embora' (baby, fous le camp).

5. I Got You Babe
Holly & Joey

Holly Beth Vincent and Joey Ramone perform the Sonny & Cher tune.

6. They Don't Make 'em Like I Like
Texas Tornados

This is a Freddy Fender song. Some years after he and Doug Sahm passed away, the two remaining members of the band, Augie Meyers and Flaco Jiménez, relaunched the Texas Tornados with Doug Sahm's son, Shawn Sahm, and they released one more album, ¡Está bueno! (2010). Sure it is good.

7. Paradise
Ben Vaughn

Ben Vaughn recites and plays an Alex Chilton tune. From the compilation Not The Singer But The Songs ...An Alex Chilton Tribute (1991).

8. Tennessee Blues
Bobby Charles

This is a well-known song, but let's hear it in the voice of its author, Bobby Charles, who also wrote 'Walking to New Orleans', 'See You Later Alligator', and more beautiful tunes.

9. Malagueña
Sabicas

What can I say about this? Nothing, as usual.

10. Malagueña salerosa
Luiz Bonfá

 

Lovely.

11. Malagueña salerosa
Tuty Taher & Band Arulan

 

This Mexican song talks of a young woman from Málaga. The present cover by Tuty Taher & Arulan was recorded in 1966 somewhere in Indonesia.

12. Cuando calienta el sol
The Mariachi Brass! Featuring Chet Baker

It burns now. 'Cuando calienta el sol' played in 1966 by The Mariachi Brass! with Chet Baker on the fluggelhorn. Arranged and conducted by Jack Nitzsche.

13. Oh!
Catherine Spaak

'Oh!' is a song written in 1919 by the Americans Byron Gay and Arnold Jonhson. In 1967, Mafalda Sofia recorded a Portuguese version, that you can listen here. Two years later, Catherine Spaak sang it in Italian for the film Certo, certissimo, anzi... probabile.

14. Les p'tits papiers
Jane Birkin & Francoise Hardy

From the TV programme Top à... Serge Gainsbourg, broadcasted on May 4, 1974. You can see the video here, with guest appearances of Serge Gainsbourg (the writer of the song) and Jacques Dutronc.

15. I'll Be Seeing You
Françoise Hardy & Iggy Pop

Françoise Hardy and Iggy Pop perform this beautiful tune from 1938, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal.

16. La chanson de Prévert
Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin singing 'La chanson de Prévert' in 2017, accompanied by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. I think this is really nice.

17. Autumn Leaves
Second City Sound

Pop 'Autumn Leaves'... do svidania.