Brain drift (2)
I should probably create a category for this, since it happens so often.
Trini’s gone for a week, which gives me something of a Sad, but it also gives me something to look forward to: her return.
Meanwhile, Sonic Charmer has an anecdote about singer Nana Mouskouri which eventually evolves into a political discussion, which sent me back to the preceding paragraph, inasmuch as in this particular picture, Mouskouri, then about 39, managed to look vaguely Trini-ish. Not that I knew that when I shelled out however many dollars for the 1974 album Que je sois un ange, for which that’s the cover photo.
And this album contains perhaps my favorite Mouskouri track, which exemplifies, I think, the good sort of multiculturalism: a Greek singer on a Dutch record label singing, in French, a song written by an Anglophone Canadian. Definitely a win-win. Not much to see in the video, but that’s not why it’s here.
Yep, brain drift. Sometimes the heart follows. (If the YouTube box refuses to show itself, try here.)
zigzag »
18 December 2009 · 1:19 pm
moon calf ?
CGHill »
18 December 2009 · 1:22 pm
Well, the moon hasn’t been full for a couple of weeks, so its baneful influence is at a low level.
(That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.)
canadienne »
18 December 2009 · 5:12 pm
Pretty song, although I keep hearing the lyrics to “Sundown” in my head, a much less romantic version. I didn’t actually know Nana Mouskouri had recorded this.
Lisa Paul »
18 December 2009 · 5:23 pm
And how many of us first encountered Nana Mouskouri from the “World” playlist on an international flight. She was a staple of in-flight entertainment back in the day.
ms7168 »
19 December 2009 · 8:37 am
I kept hearing “Sundown” too.
canadienne »
19 December 2009 · 12:36 pm
Do your liner notes mention who wrote the lyrics to L’Amour C’Est Comme L’Eté? My Google searches have been inconclusive. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Gordon Lightfoot.
CGHill »
19 December 2009 · 1:28 pm
The liner and the label list Lightfoot by himself, then “P. Delanoé — C. Lemesle.”
This is undoubtedly Pierre Delanoé, French lyricist and occasional writing partner of Gilbert Bécaud, working with writer-arranger Claude Lemesle. Big names in French pop.
canadienne »
19 December 2009 · 2:12 pm
Thanks or should I say “Merci!” I have heard of those guys, just didn’t know they wrote that one (or that Nana Mouskouri recorded it.) Your head must contain a vast encyclopedia of popular music, no wonder you are subject to brain drift.
canadienne »
19 December 2009 · 3:05 pm
Also I now have that song running through my head in both official languages, alternating.
CGHill »
19 December 2009 · 4:25 pm
Well, half-vast, anyway.