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Chairlift – Bruises

Cathy — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:33:00 +0000

I’m surprised I haven’t posted this already, but here it is, Chairlift’s Bruises – the song from the old iPod nano ad to follow on from the new video nano one.

The Bourgeois Miss Li

Cathy — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:27:23 +0000

I’m a sucker for Apple’s iPod ads. The new one for the video nano is no exception.

If you were wondering what the song was it was Bourgeois Shangri-La by Miss Li.

The look you give that guy

Cathy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:55:06 +0000

The Eels video starring Rushdie’s ex-wife Padma Lakshmi.

Sorry Live

Cathy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:26:53 +0000

Also from Youth Group’s Casino Twilight Dogs. Such a good album, as is all their stuff.

Making Daisychains

Cathy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:22:54 +0000

And listening to them…

Clare de Lune

Cathy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:22:42 +0000

I felt like listening to this today.

Unfortunately, I can’t find my favourite of its movie appearances – The Scent of Green Papaya – so I’ll have to play a scene from from the movie and the music separately. Apparently it’s in Twilight so the piece is all over the YouTubes.

Here’s the papaya scene:

Here’s the Debussy:

The animation is from a free MIDI animator.

Another early Aretha

Cathy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:56:05 +0000

She was going to go on to do much better with Otis Redding’s songs. I can’t say that I love the big band backing, it’s a little high school prom slow dance, but her voice is just pure perfection.

Aretha’s Skylark

Cathy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:51:45 +0000

I had Helen Forrest doing Skylark, now it’s Aretha Franklin’s turn.

It’s from Aretha’s early confused and repressed years at the Columbia label before she found her voice (so to speak) at Atlantic Records. Columbia packaged up some of these into a compilation titled Queen in Waiting.

While her first album (I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You) at Atlantic is one of my all time favourite records, I am ever so grateful for those Columbia recordings so that we can hear her doing standards like this.

Here’s another standard, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, from her 19620 second Columbia album, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin:

The only woman that Clark Gable really loved

Cathy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:58:41 +0000

Not sure why I’m posting this video clip – for the lovely pictures of Carole Lombard or for Helen Forrest velvetly singing Skylark with the Harry James Orchestra.

Here are some home movies of Clark and Carole – so sad that it wasn’t to last longer.

Why Not Me?

Cathy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:20:54 +0000

I’m not the only one who’s into the era. This is a French lass called Mareva Galanter.