Ken Colman - Funny World mp3 (available for 7 days)
Ken Colman...who he? Well, he's a jazz singer from Vancouver more commonly known as Kenny Colman. He hasn't had a huge amount of commercial success (although he did do the rounds of the American talk shows in the 60s) but he's an acclaimed vocalist on the international club circuit. He came to the attention of Frank Sinatra, who became a friend and mentor to not-so-young-by-that-time Kenny.Funny World was included on Morricone's soundtrack of 1964 shockumentary I Malamondo - along with Catherine Spaak's Questi Vent'anni Miei - and involves some decidedly Sinatra-esque crooning.
Françoise Hardy - now there's a woman who just gets better with age. By 1966 she'd already released four full length albums and La maison ou j'ai grandi, released that year, was her fifth. Track 2 was Je changerais d'avis (which was recorded and released as Se Telefonando by Mina also in 1966), a building-to-a-crescendo promise to change every aspect of her life in slavish devotion to some chap or other. While I can't really agree with the sentiment, it's a beautifully enduring performance!Françoise Hardy - Je Changerais d'Avis (Se Telefonando) mp3 (available for 7 days)
Here's Françoise performing the song in a shiny mini-mac whilst appearing to be lost in a tv studio. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
If you enjoyed these songs, they can be found on Canto Moricone Vol. 1. And you can visit the websites of two fine singers:
Kenny Colman website
Francoise Hardy website (she looks fantastic on that front page photo!)
3 comments:
Francoise and I spent a blissful three summers together in a one bedroom apartment off the Left Bank between 1967 and 1972. I still miss her, but we both had to move on.
(Notes from the diary of my alternative life).
Er, I even lost count of the summers.
I'd just assumed you'd spent the other two summers smoking Gauloise and staring wistfully out across the Seine.
BTW, watching that vid I kept thinking Francoise was going to punch the air and shout "HELLO CLEVELAND!" at any minute!
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