THE SINGER NOT THE SONG
LA CANCIÓN DE PRÉVERT · 17
This Rolling Stones cover by Patti Palladin first appeared on the compilation Destination: Bomp! (1994).
'C'mon Everybody' plus NRBQ equals just fun rock 'n' roll.
Mais, que canção!
'Where Did Our Love Go' as 'Baby vá embora' (baby, fous le camp).
Holly Beth Vincent and Joey Ramone perform the Sonny & Cher tune.
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.
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
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.
What can I say about this? Nothing, as usual.
10. Malagueña salerosa
Luiz Bonfá
Luiz Bonfá
Lovely.
This Mexican song talks of a young woman from Málaga. The present cover by Tuty Taher & Arulan was recorded in 1966 somewhere in Indonesia.
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.
'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.
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.
Françoise Hardy and Iggy Pop perform this beautiful tune from 1938, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal.
Jane Birkin singing 'La chanson de Prévert' in 2017, accompanied by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. I think this is really nice.
Pop 'Autumn Leaves'... do svidania.