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Etta James - I´d Rather Go Blind
Songwriters - Ellington Jordan, co-credited to Billy Foster
Release date - August 21, 1968
Record date - August 22 - December 6, 1967
Record label - Cadet Records (original release); MCA/Chess (re-release)
Sound recording - UMG/Universal Music
Personnel - Etta James: lead vocals; Gene Miller: trumpet; James Mitchell, Aaron Varnell: saxophones; Floyd Newman: baritone saxophone; George Davis, Spooner Oldham: keyboards; Carl Banks, Barry Beckett: organ; Marvell Thomas: piano; Jimmy Ray Jenkins, Albert Lowe: guitars; David Hood: bass; Roger Hawkins: drums; Charles Chalmers: background vocals
____ I´d Rather Go Blind was first recorded by Etta James in 1967, released in 1968,[ and has subsequently become regarded as a blues and soul classic.
____ Tell Mama is the eighth studio album by American singer Etta James. The album was released August 21, 1968 on Cadet Records and was produced by Rick Hall. Tell Mama was James's first album since 1964 to enter the Billboard 200 albums chart and contained her first Top 10 and 20 hits since 1964. It was also her second release for the Cadet record label.
"When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing".
__________________________________________ Etta James __________________________________________
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Etta James - I´d Rather Go Blind
Songwriters - Ellington Jordan, co-credited to Billy Foster
Release date - August 21, 1968
Record date - August 22 - December 6, 1967
Record label - Cadet Records (original release); MCA/Chess (re-release)
Sound recording - UMG/Universal Music
Personnel - Etta James: lead vocals; Gene Miller: trumpet; James Mitchell, Aaron Varnell: saxophones; Floyd Newman: baritone saxophone; George Davis, Spooner Oldham: keyboards; Carl Banks, Barry Beckett: organ; Marvell Thomas: piano; Jimmy Ray Jenkins, Albert Lowe: guitars; David Hood: bass; Roger Hawkins: drums; Charles Chalmers: background vocals
____ I´d Rather Go Blind was first recorded by Etta James in 1967, released in 1968,[ and has subsequently become regarded as a blues and soul classic.
____ Tell Mama is the eighth studio album by American singer Etta James. The album was released August 21, 1968 on Cadet Records and was produced by Rick Hall. Tell Mama was James's first album since 1964 to enter the Billboard 200 albums chart and contained her first Top 10 and 20 hits since 1964. It was also her second release for the Cadet record label.
"When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing".
__________________________________________ Etta James __________________________________________
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![Tom Waits - Strange Weather [live]
Tom Waits - Strange Weather
Photos by © James Minchin III
Strange Weather(Live) (Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan) was written for Marianne Faithfull. It is a track from the album Big Time released in September, 1988, and recorded in November 5 and November 9, 1987 (The Warfield, San Francisco, and Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles).
Sound recording administered by UMG.
Label - Island Records
Musicians and performers on this track:
Tom Waits - lead vocals, piano, guitar
Marc Ribot - lead guitar, banjo, trumpet
Greg Cohen - electric bass, basstarda, alto horn
Ralph Carney - saxophone, clarinets, baritone horn
Willy Schwarz - accordion, hammond organ, sitar, conga
Michael Blair - drums, percussion, bongos, brake drums
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![Maria Callas - Un Bel Di Vedremo - Madame Butterfly, Act II
Maria Callas - Madame Butterfly: Act II; Un bel dì, vedremo
Movie scenes - Memoirs of a Geisha, a historical novel by American author Arthur Golden, published in 1997.
Maria Callas, soprano.
Philharmonia Orchestra, Dir. Tullio Serafin.
Madame Butterfly is an opera in three acts (originally two acts) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The libretto of the opera is based in part on the short story Madame Butterfly (1898) by John Luther Long – which in turn was based partially on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll and partially on the semi-autographical 1887 French novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti.
Un bel dì vedremo (One fine day we’ll see) is a soprano aria from the opera Madama Butterfly when she imagines and performs the return of Pinkerton on a white ship, signalled by a thread of smoke on the far horizon.
Sound recording - INgrooves / Made In etaly/ [Merlin] / Harmonia Mundi
“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
Arthur Golden
To my dear friend FMR
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![Melody Gardot - La Vie en Rose
Melody Gardot - La Vie en Rose
Composers - Édith Piaf & Louis Guglielmi
Photographer – © Mark Segal
Album - The Absence [Deluxe Edition] [CD/DVD]
Release date – July 3, 2012
Label - Decca Records/Verve
Des yeux qui font baiser les miens,
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche,
Voila le portrait sans retouche
De lhomme auquel jappartiens
Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie en rose.
Il me dit des mots damour,
Des mots de tous les jours,
Et ca me fait quelque chose.
Il est entre dans mon coeur
Une part de bonheur
Dont je connais la cause.
Cest lui pour moi. Moi pour lui
Dans la vie,
Il me la dit, la jurait pour la vie.
Et des que je lapercois
Alors je sens en moi
Mon coeur qui bat
Des nuits damour a ne plus en finir
Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place
Des enuis des chagrins, des phases
Heureux, heureux a en mourir.
Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie…
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![Halie Loren - Smile
Halie Loren - Smile
Priyanka Chopra [indian actress and singer] - by © Bryan Adams
Written-By – Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner
Album - Heart First
Label - Justin Time
Released - 13 Mar 2012
Credits - Accordion [Button] – Seigei Teleshev; Guitar: William Seiji; Piano [Rhodes], Piano: Matt Treder; Producer, Engineer – Halie Loren, Matt Treder; Vocals, Piano – Halie Loren
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![Ketil Bjornstad - Prelude 13
Ketil Bjørnstad – Prelude 13
Photographer – ©Hal Eastman
Album – “Ketil Bjørnstad – Early Piano Music” [Prelude 1 to 21 and Pianology 1 to 8], 2011, released on 08 Apr 2011. Preludes was recorded at Rainbow and Rosenborg Studios, Oslo, on Steinway Grand. Previously released on LP as Preludes Vol. 1 (1984) and Preludes Vol. 2 (1985) by Uniton Records. Re-released on CD, as Preludes, on Hermitage / September (1993).
Label – Hubro
Sound recording - [Merlin] Phonofile
Ketil Bjørnstad is a Norwegian pianist, composer and author, born April 25, 1952 in Oslo. Initially Ketil was trained as a classical pianist and studied with Amalie Christie and Robert Riefling, and also in London and Paris. He showed great talent at a young age, and won the title of Youth Piano Master in 1966 and 1968. When he was 16, he made his debut as a concert pianist with Béla Bartóks third piano concerto. Bjørnstad subsequently turned towards jazz and rock, in close cooperation with the guitarist Terje Rypdal, bassist Arild Andersen, drummer Jon Christensen and the American cellist David Darling.
I seek to create and share simple, beautiful images which communicate the natural rhythms and innate energies of chosen subjects. I find photographing dance very apt for expressing natural rhythmic movement. My work celebrates especially the pure sculpture, power, and physicality of women dancers. Some of my images are created using slow camera shutter speeds to capture a lengthened moment in time. Others incorporate ‘light painting’ techniques I have developed, where the dancer is static in a completely dark studio, but imagining herself moving, suspended in time and space. My objective is to give my photographs a soft, sensual impressionist feeling, resembling either watercolor paintings or charcoal drawings.
Hal Eastman
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