Summer Songs 3

OR

Wild is the Wind

3 very powerfully sung versions of a much recorded song. Each one is excellent in its own way

The original by Johnny Mathis 1957. He still performs!


Nina Simone - a chilled out video and version


David Bowie - one of my early heroes. Hunky Dory - he's 62 this year and still strong


These albums have the track
Very Best of Johnny Mathis
Wild Is The Wind
MP3 David Bowie

Death

St James Infirmary Blues - Cab Calloway
Betty Boop cartoon St James Infirmary Blues
New Orleans man plans his own funeral after his woman has died - 'Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain/So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat'


Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult


'It's basically a love song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners'
- gothic storyline V Byrdsian guitar line


Never Get Old - David Bowie

Existentialist - Bowie is not merely content to rage against the dying of the light. 'there's never going to be enough money/never going to be enough drugs/never going to be enough sex'

Goin Back - The Byrds

'But thinking young and growing old is no sin'

All Things Must Pass - George Harrison

There is lots of Love

Kelvin has posted Love Albums before - but there are so many beautiful songs - so I'll have a go at some of those that the newspaper I read recommends.

God Only Knows the Beach Boys
Supposedly written in 15 minutes by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher.

I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
Ill make you so sure about it

The Beatles - She Loves You
'one of the most exhilarating examples of pop joy ever recorded'

She said you hurt her so
She almost lost her mind.
But now she said she knows
You're not the hurting kind.

Bridge:
She says she loves you
And you know that can't be bad.
Yes, she loves you
And you know you should be glad. Ooh!

Heroes - David Bowie
love can transcend even the nuclear face-off between Nato and the Warsaw Pact

Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Love as a prowling source of terror
Its in the trees!
Its coming!

.....
Here I go!
Its coming for me through the trees.
Help me, someone!
Help me, please!

I Got a Woman - Ray Charles
Old style sexism - the woman lives way over time but still knows her place is in the home - the start of soul?

Then he kissed me - The Crystals
He kissed me in a way I've never been kissed before