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July 2010

2010-08-21T06:33:00.003+02:00

Film du mois

Chie the Brat (Isao Takahata, 1981)

Top Ten

1. Chie the Brat (Isao Takahata, 1981)
2. The General (Buster Keaton, 1927)
3. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965)
4. In Nome Del Popolo Italiano (Dino Risi, 1971)
5. The Chaser (Na Hong-Jin, 2008)
6. Betty Boop (Dave Fleischer, 1932)
7. Death on the Nile (John Guillermin, 1978)
8. A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-Woon, 2003)
9. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgins, 1995)
10. Parade (Jacques Tati, 1974)

News

19 gems.

Un Revenant (Christian-Jacque, 1946) - C-
The Angry Hills (Robert Aldrich, 1959) - C-
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965) - B
Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy, 2006) - D-
Chie the Brat (Isao Takahata, 1981) - B+
I clowns (Federico Fellini, 1970) - C-
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-Woon, 2003) - C+
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006) - F comme FAIL
The Chaser (Na Hong-Jin, 2008) - B
Cab Calloway, le dandy de Harlem (Gail Levin et Jean-François Pitet, 2010) - C
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgins, 1995) - C
The Hudsucker Proxy (Joen & Ethan Coen, 1994) - C-
In Nome Del Popolo Italiano (Dino Risi, 1971) - B
The General (Buster Keaton, 1927) - B+
Parade (Jacques Tati, 1974) - C-
Death on the Nile (John Guillermin, 1978) - B-
A Dandy in Aspic (Anthony Mann, Lawrence Harvey 1968) - D+
Samaria (Kim Ki-duk, 2004) - C
The Boat That Rocked (Richard Curtis, 2009) - D+

Cartoons

Betty Boop (Dave Fleischer, 1932)

Minnie the Moocher
Stopping the Show
Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee
Betty Boop, M.D.
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
Betty Boop for President
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
Betty Boop's Museum

Films revus

Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003) - A+
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953) - B+
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) - B+
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) - B
Riso Amaro (Giuseppe De Santis, 1949) - A+

Frivolities

Surprises : Chie the Brat (Isao Takahata, 1981), Death on the Nile (John Guillermin, 1978)

Disappointments : I clowns (Federico Fellini, 1970), The Boat That Rocked (Richard Curtis, 2009)

The Patricia Neal Award : Betty Boop

The Gregory Peck Award : Buster Keaton (The General, 1926)

The Phyllis Dietrichson Award : Ha Jung-woo (The Chaser, 2008)

Top 5 Quotes

1. SERA : "So why are you a drunk?"
BEN ANDERSON : "Why am I a drunk? Is that really what you wanna ask me?"
SERA : "Yes."
BEN ANDERSON : "Well, then, this is our first date, or our last. Until now I wasn't sure it was either. "

(Nicolas Cage & Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas)

2. Lorenzo Santenocito : O Ménopause, que ne fait-on pas en ton nom à sa femme

(Vittotio Gassman, In nome del popolo italiano)

3. A hot cornet can go: [cornet sounds]
But a hot cornet can't "boop-boop-a-doop" like Betty Boop can do!
A saxophone can go: [saxophone sounds]
But a saxophone can't "boop-boop-a-doop" like Betty Boop can do!

Betty Boop, M.D.

4. JOHNNIE GRAY : "If you lose this war don't blame me."

(Buster Keaton, The General)

5. MRS. VAN SCHUYLER: "How would a little trip down the Nile suit you?"
MISS BOWERS: "There is nothing I would dislike more. There are two things in the world I can't abide: it's heat and heathens."
MRS. VAN SCHUYLER: "Good. Then we'll go. Bowers, pack."

(Bette Davis & Maggie Smith, Death on the Nile)

BONUS : BEN SANDERSON: "I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me".

(Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas)

Livre Cinéma du Mois

Not a thing.

Rating : ABCDE

Bobby Hebb - Where Are You ?

2010-08-14T07:05:00.005+02:00

* 1966 LP Sunny (US Phillips PHS 200-212)

Where Are You ?
Where have you gone without me ?
I tought you cared about me
Where Are You ?

Where's my heart ?
Where is the dream we started ?
I can't believe we're parted
Where Are You ?

When we said goodbye love,
What had we to gain ?
When I gave you my love
Was it all in vain ?

All life through...
Must I go on pretending ?
Where is my Happy Ending ?
Where Are You ?

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bobby-hebb-20100804,0,2736433.story

Leon Haywood - It's Got To Be Mellow

2010-08-01T10:42:00.001+02:00


DECCA, 62134 - It's Got To Be Mellow / Cornbread & Buttermilk (1967)



It's Got To Be Mellow
Got to be mellow,
'Cause my baby loves me,
and I'm her only fellow

Crazy about my baby,
Crazy about my baby,
And it's plain to see
She's crazy about me,
Crazy about me, yeah

She's got class and she's got style,
A personality that drives me wild,
She's not a put-on and she's not make believe,
She don't mind sharing love so that she may receive

She's mellow
It's Got To Be Mellow
Yes my baby's mellow
It's Got To Be Mellow
She's my baby and I love her
And I'm her only fellow
And I place no one above her

It's got to be mellow (It's Got To Be Mellow)
Got to be mellow, (It's Got To Be Mellow)
'Cause my baby loves me (She's my baby and I love her)
And I'm her only fellow (and I place no one above her)
crazy about my baby, crazy about my baby,
and it's plain to see, she's crazy about me,
crazy bout me, yeah
She's alright, Love is uptight

Lou Rawls - You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches

2010-07-29T12:08:00.000+02:00

* Capitol, 5790 - "You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches" / "A Woman Who's A Woman" (1966)

When the world becomes too much for you

When the road ahead is hard to see
When you feel you don't know what to do
Baby you could turn to me

You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches
Cry On My Shoulders Anyday
You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches
I'll Kiss Your Worries Away

When it seems the day would never end
When things are wrong as they can be
When you wonder if you've got a friend
Baby just remember me

You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches
Cry On My Shoulders Anyday
You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches
I'll Kiss Your Worries Away

I will prove to you how much I care
You'll never have to stand alone
In your hour of need, you'll find me there
You can make my arms your home

You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches
You Can Bring Me Every One Of Your Heartaches

Poppies - There's A Pain In My Heart

2010-07-27T13:34:00.002+02:00

Epic 5-10086, "There's A Pain In My Heart" / "My Love And I" (1966)

There's a pain in my heart everytime I stop thinkin'
Of the love that we had I'm so sad my heart's breaking
I keep holdin' on to these memories & hopin' you will hear my plea...

Don't you think that we should try again, try to love again
Don't you think that we sould try again, try to love again
Play on symphony, play on rhapsody
We had a love that is so true
That's why my love that I need you

Such a heart deep inside, leave your pride come on back
You know your love haunted me, can't you see how I need you so
I keep holdin' on to these memories and hopin' you will hear my plea

Don't you think that we should try again, try to love again
Don't you think that we sould try again, try to love again
Play on symphony, play on rhapsody
We had a love that is so true
That's why my love that I need you

http://www.box.net/shared/zgdkmu1uti

Vel Tones - I Do

2010-07-23T10:22:00.005+02:00

* Goldwax Records, 301 - "Darling" / "I Do" (1966)

Who needs two arms to hold them tight ? I do
Who needs sweet kisses every night darlin ? I do
What kind of fool would lose his head every time he is fond of you

Who wants to fall in love ?
I do

Who want to see the same old face every day ? I do
Who want to hear those foolish things you say, darling ? I do
Who wants to change his carefree ways and spend the rest of his life with you ?

Now who wants to fall in love ?
I do

Someone want to fall in love with you
Someone want to give all his love to you, guess who ?

Who needs a tender hand to hold ? I do
Who needs someone when nights too cold, darling ? I do
Who want to tie himself (...) and spend the rest of his life with you

Now who wants to say I do ? I do
Pretty little angel
Who wants to say I do ? I do

Lovelites - How Can I Tell My Mom And Dad

2010-07-23T09:51:00.007+02:00

* Lock, 723 - "How Can I Tell My Mom & Dad" / "Hey! Stars Of Tomorrow" (Instrumental) (1969)

Not to be confused with the girl groups from Phi-Dan, these Lovelites were from Chicago. Teen pregnancy and running away from your parents in a soul single...

How can I tell my mom and dad
That I've been bad
How can I tell my mom and dad
That I've been bad

Will they understand
How much I love that man
And oh, will they ever know
How much he's hurt me so

I know I was a fool
To be loved by you
But I've got to find a way
But what can I say

(Somebody please) How can I tell my mom and dad
(Help me explain, help me explain) That I've been bad
(This misery) How can I tell my mom and dad
(Oh, please) That I've been bad

He told me that he loved me
And that our love was true
Oh, but when we made me mother-to-be
He disappeared on me

Now I'm so ashamed
'Cause you quit the game
And left me here to be
In all this misery

Should I go up to mama
And say, "Guess what I've done" No-no
Or disappear in the night
And let them notice I'm gone {No-no}

Or should I go out and do
Somethin' I wouldn't want to {No-no}
Or stand up like a big girl
And tell 'em about me and you

(Daddy will be so terrified) How can I tell my mom and dad
(Yes, he will) That I've been bad
(Mom's so upset that she'll wanna die) How can I tell my mom and dad
(Help me) That I've been bad

(How can I tell them I'm a mother-to-be)
How-how-how-how I've been bad
(Help me explain to them he does love me)
How-how-how-how I've been bad

http://www.box.net/shared/oi7snq42y8

June 2010

2010-07-01T14:09:00.008+02:00

Film du mois

Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955)

Top Ten

1. Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955)
2. Silver Lode (Allan Dwan, 1954)
3. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1923)
4. The Cigarette Girl From Moscow (Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, 1924)
5. Mother, 1905 (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926)
6. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-Eda, 2004)
7. Hot Water (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1924)
8. Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007)
9. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
10. Gideon's Day (John Ford, 1958)

Découvertes

21 découvertes.

Silver Lode (Allan Dwan, 1954) - B+
Steamboy (Katsuhiro Otomo, 2004) - C-
Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg, 1929) - C-
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004) - B
Slightly Scarlett (Allan Dwan, 1956) - C
Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955) - B+
It's Always Sunday (Allan Dwan, 1956) - C-
High Air (Allan Dwan, 1956) - C-
Castle Keep (Sidney Pollack, 1969) - D-
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007) - B-
Hot Water (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1924) - B
Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1923) - B+
Gideon's Day (John Ford, 1958) - C
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru Hosoda, 2006) - C
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979) - C+
J'accuse (Abel Gance, 1938) - C+
The Cigarette Girl From Moscow (Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, 1924) - B
La Femme est l'Avenir de l'Homme (Hong Sangsoon, 2004) - C-
Escape to Burma (Allan Dwan, 1955) - D
Pearl of the South Pacific (Allan Dwan, 1955) - D
Mother, 1905 (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926) - B+

Films revus

Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Surges, 1948) - B
I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks, 1949) - B-
My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) - A

Frivolities

Surprises : Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007)

Disappointments : Castle Keep (Sidney Pollack, 1969), Escape to Burma (Allan Dwan, 1955)

The Joan Blondell Award : Rondha Fleming (Tennessee's Partner & Slightly Scarlett)

The Cary Grant Award : Harold Lloyd (Safety Last!, 1923)

The Lionel "Mr. Potter" Barrymore Award : The angry mob (Silver Lode) or the Russian army (La Mère)

Top 5 Quotes

1. Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham : "Champagne ?"
Cowpoke : "No thanks"
Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham : "Whiskey ?"
Cowpoke : "Cold water if you don't mind."
Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham : "Anything you want. Sabrina, cold water for the gentleman."
Sabrina : "Bath ?"
Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham : "No, drink."
Sabrina : "My goodness."

(Rhonda Fleming & Ronald Reagan, Tennessee's Partner)

2. TENNESSEE : "Were you from ?"
COWPOKE : "Arizona. Ever been there ?"
TENNESSEE : "Yeah I was run out of the Arizona' territory three years ago. I was run out of New Mexico too. And Colorado, Utah, Texas and Oregon."
COWPOKE : "You've got to be a little bit careful here in California. I understand there's an ocean outta here someplace."

(John Payne & Ronald Reagan, Tennessee's Partner)

3. TENNESSEE : "I never even knew his name!"

John Payne, Tennessee's Partner)

4. Un écriteau devant la "maison" de la tenancière Rhonda Fleming :

Marriage Market : Young ladies all able to cook, all desirous of finding decent husbands. Manager : Elizabeth 'Duchess' Farnham
GRUBSTAKE McNIVEN : "Gosh wish I could read"

(Tennessee's Partner)

5. Jenna: I Hate My Husband Pie... You take bittersweet chocolate and don't sweeten it. You make it into a pudding and drown it in caramel.
Jenna: Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having An Affair Pie... You smash blackberries and raspberries into a chocolate crust
Jenna: I Can't Have No Affair Because It's Wrong And I Don't Want Earl To Kill Me Pie... Vanilla custard with banana. Hold the banana.

(Keri Russell, Waitress)

Livre Cinéma du Mois

Hitchcock at Work (Bill Krohn)

Rating : ABCDE

May 2010

2010-06-03T22:07:00.006+02:00

Film du mois

Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942)

Top Ten

1. Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942)
2. Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder, 1957)
3. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2008)
4. Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973)
5. Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, 1955)
6. Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1956)
7. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
8. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)
9. Arise My Love (Mitchell Leisen, 1940)
10. Le Destin Fabuleux De Désirée Clary (Sacha Guitry, 1941)

Découvertes

25 découvertes.

Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) - B
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone, 1923) - B
Arise My Love (Mitchell Leisen, 1940) - C+
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood, 1997) - D-
Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder, 1957) - A
Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989) - D
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934) - C-
Green Card (Peter Weir, 1990) - D
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (Mitchell Leisen, 1936) - D
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980) - C-
The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise, 1966) - C
Le Destin Fabuleux De Désirée Clary (Sacha Guitry, 1941) - C
Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1956) - B
Cattle Queen of Montana (Allan Dwan, 1954) - C-
Passion (Allan Dwan, 1954) - C
Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, 1955) - B
Factotum (Bent Hamer, 2005) - E
Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973) - B+
Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942) - A
Aurora de esperanza (Antonio Sau Olite, 1937) - C-
An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990) - B
Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004) - D
Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006) - D
Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2008) - A
Un nommé La Rocca (Jean Becker, 1962) - D-

Films revus

Scarlett Street (Fritz Lang, 1945) - B+
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) - B
Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944) - A
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) - A+++
Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1952) - B-
The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963) - A
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) - A

Frivolities

Surprise : Le Destin Fabuleux De Désirée Clary (Sacha Guitry, 1941), Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942), Still Walking - Aruitemo aruitemo (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2008), An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990), Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, 1955)

Disappointment : Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood, 1997), la bande originale anachronique sur le dvd Kino Sherlock Jr., Factotum (Bent Hamer, 2005), The Big Broadcast of 1937 (Mitchell Leisen, 1936), Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)

The Olivia de Havilland Award : Charlotte Rampling (Stardust Memories) & Greer Garson (Random Harvest)

The Kirk Douglas Award : Buster Keaton (Sherlock Jr.)

The Lionel "Mr. Potter" Barrymore Award : Le Troisième Reich (Kanaal)
Runner-up : Robert Ryan (Bad Day At The Black Rock) et l'administration pénitentiaire française dans Papillon

Top 5 Répliques

1. Ariane Chavasse: Working on a new case?
Claude Chavasse: A client from Brussels. His wife ran away to Paris with the chauffeur. I have to find them; the husband wants his car back. (Audrey Hepburn et Maurice Chevalier, Love In The Afternoon)

2. Father Jacinto: "This is my first execution."
Tom Martin: "Don't worry, Father, it's mine too." (Ray Milland, Arise My Love)

3. Oh, let me tell you, you're not the missionary type, you'd never last (Woody Allen, Stardust Memories)

4. SANDY "What was that? What was that?"
DORRIE "Hey, that's so pretty. A pigeon!"
SANDY "Geez...no, it's not pretty at all. They're...they're...they're rats with wings."
DORRIE "They're wonderful. No! It's probably a good omen. It'll bring us good luck."
SANDY "No...no, get it out of here. It's probably one of those killer pigeons."
DORRIE "No, get something for it to eat. We can coax it down! What are you doing? Hey, wait!"
SANDY "You see, it's got a swastika under its wings."
DORRIE "It's wonderful. Not that.
SANDY "I just...I just want to guide it out of the apartment. Geez. I don't want a winged thing in my house." (Stardust Memories)

5. Reno Smith: I don't know! Somebody's always looking for something in this part of the West. To the historian it's the Old West, to the book writer it's the Wild West, to the businessman it's the Undeveloped West -- they say we're all poor and backward, and I guess we are, we don't even have enough water. But to us, this place is *our* West, and I wish they'd leave us alone! (Robert Ryan, Bad Day At Black Rock)

BONUS : A WOMAN IN THE AUDIENCE "A lot of people have accused you of being narcissistic."
SANDY "No, I know people think that I'm egotistical and narcissistic, but it's not true. I, as a matter of fact, if I did identify with a Greek mythological character, it would not be Narcissus."
ANOTHER MAN IN THE AUDIENCE "Who would be?"
SANDY "Zeus." (Stardust Memories)

Livre Cinéma du Mois

Niet.

Rating : Alphabet

April In Paris 2010

2010-05-05T21:42:00.005+02:00

Film du mois

The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

Top Ten

1. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
2. To Each His Own (Mitchell Leisen, 1946)
3. A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (Charlie Chaplin, 1923)
4. Hold Back The Dawn (Mitchell Leisen, 1941)
5. Three Came Home (Jean Negulesco, 1950)
6. The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924)
7. Die Blechtrommel - Le Tambour (Volker Schlöndorff, 1978)
8. Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971)
9. Milou en Mai (Louis Malle, 1990)
10. Il Vedovo (Dino Risi, 1959)

Découvertes

24 découvertes.

The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2009) - C+
September (Woody Allen, 1987) - C
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924) - B+
Grief in Bagdad (Benjamin Stoloff, 1925) - B
To Each His Own (Mitchell Leisen, 1946) - A
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, 1938) - C
Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, 1993) - D+
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) - A
Un Dimanche à la Campagne (Bertrand Tavernier, 1984) - C+
Hold Back The Dawn (Mitchell Leisen, 1941) - B-
Hands Across The Table (Mitchell Leisen, 1935) - B-
The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, Willaim Cameron Menzies, 1940) - C+
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) - B-
Hondo (John Farrow, 1953) - C-
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (Charlie Chaplin, 1923) - B
Three Came Home (Jean Negulesco, 1950) - B
Il Vedovo (Dino Risi, 1959) - C+
Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971) - C+
Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang, 1943) - C+
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984) - C+
Open Range (Kevin Costner, 2005) - D+
Die Blechtrommel - Le Tambour (Volker Schlöndorff, 1978) - B
The Man Who Wasn't There (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2001) - C
Milou en Mai (Louis Malle, 1990) - C+

Films revus

Rawhide (Henry Hathaway, 1951) - B+
Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932) - B-
Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) - B+
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939) - B+
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) - B
Santa Fe Trail (Michael Curtiz, 1940) - C+

Frivolities

Surprise : Grief in Bagdad (Benjamin Stoloff, 1925), To Each His Own (Mitchell Leisen, 1946)
Disappointment : The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, 1938)

Babe of the Month : Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own)

The Cary Grant Award : John Wayne (The Searchers, 1956)

The Dark Vador Award : John Wayne (The Searchers, 1956)

Top 5 Quotes

1. Let's go home, Debbie. (John Wayne, The Searchers)

2. That'll be the day. (John Wayne, The Searchers)

3. I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. (Woody Allen, Bananas)

4. Fielding Mellish: I love you, I love you.
Nancy: Oh, say it in French! Oh, please, say it in French!
Fielding Mellish: I don't know French. What about Hebrew? (Woody Allen, Bananas)

5. Georges Iscovescu: You've got enough money to get you back to New York. I'll find you there when I'm ready.
Anita Dixon: Thanks! You just stand right in the middle of Times Square ... and whistle! (Charles Boyer & Paulette Goddard, Hold Back The Dawn)

Rating : ABCDE

March 2010

2010-04-06T08:32:00.000+02:00

Film du mois

Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) 1941

Top Ten

1. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) 1941
2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 1976
3. Men In War (Anthony Mann) 1957
4. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
5. Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle) 1994
6. The Big Clock (John Farrow) 1948
7. Way Down East (D.W. Griffith) 1920
8. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Michael Henry Wilson, Martin Scorsese) 1995
9. Death Takes A Holiday (Mitchell Leisen) 1934
10. Celebrity (Woody Allen) 1998

Découvertes

26 films.

Par ordre chronologique.

Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle) 1994 - B
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies 1995 - B+
Coffee & Cigarettes (Jim Jarmush) 2003 - D
Men In War (Anthony Mann) 1957 - B+
Ministry Of Fear (Fritz Lang) 1944 - C
All The King's Men (King Hu) 1983 - D+
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) 2003 - D+
Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov) 1962 - C
Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) 1941 - A
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 1976 - B+
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah) 1970 - C
Pittsburgh (Lewis Seiler) 1942 - C
Frenchman's Creek (Mitchell Leisen) 1944 - C
Masquerade In Mexico (Mitchell Leisen) 1945 - E
Father Was A Fullback (John M. Stahl) 1949 - C
The Indian Fighter (Andre De Toth) 1955 - C
Death Takes A Holiday (Mitchell Leisen) 1934 - C+
Babes In Toyland (Gus Meins, Charley Rogers) 1934 - E
Celebrity (Woody Allen) 1998 - C
Way Down East (D.W. Griffith) 1920 - B
The Big Clock (John Farrow) 1948 - B
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin) 1931 - B+
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) 1991 - D-
Copie Conforme (Jean Dreville) 1947 - C
No Country For Old Men (Coen) 2007 - D
Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah) 1954 - C-

Films revus

Les Sept Samourais (Akira Kurosawa) 1954 - A++++++
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh) 1941 - A
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra) 1934 - B+
The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann) 1955 - B
The Postman Always Ring Twice (Tay Garnett) 1946 - B

Frivolités

Biggest Surprise Of The Month : The Ballad Of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah), Vanya on 42nd Street, Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov), Death Takes A Holiday (Mitchell Leisen), The Big Clock, Men In War,

Biggest Disappointment Of The Month : Babes In Toyland, My Own Private Idaho, No Country For Old Men, Coffee & Cigarettes

The Ingrid Bergman Award : Joan Bennett (Man Hunt, 1941)

The Clark Gable Award : Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver, 1976)

The Dark Vador Award : Georges Sanders, chef de la gestapo dans Man Hunt

Notation : ABCDE

February 2010

2010-03-02T08:28:00.000+01:00

Film du mois

Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam / Les SS Frappent La Nuit (Robert Siodmak) 1957

Découvertes

Bite The Bullet (Richard Brooks) 1975 - C-
Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville) - C-
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World (Stanley Kramer) 1963 - D-
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni) 1975 - D
The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston) 1975 - B+
Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam / Les SS Frappent La Nuit (Robert Siodmak) 1957 - A
Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe (Jean Renoir) Paul Meurisse, Catherine Rouvel 1959 - D
Sometimes A Great Notion (Paul Newman) 1970 - C-
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan) 2009 - D
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B.DeMille) 1965 - B+
L'Emmerdeur (Edouard Molinaro)1973 - C-
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel) 1973 - B-
A King In New York (Charlie Chaplin) 1957 - B-
Paisà (Roberto Rossellini) 1946 - B-
My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle) 1981 - B+
Forty Shades Of Blue (Ira Sachs) 2005 - E
More Than A Game (Kristopher Belman) 2008 - D
Inside Daisy Clover (Robert Mulligan) 1965 - C-
Shadows & Fog (Woody Allen) 1991 - B
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith) 1916 - A
Dr. Zhivago (David Lean) 1965 - B+

Films revus

The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston) 1950 - B+
The Lovers (Tsui Hark)1994 - A+
Rio Grande (John Ford) 1950 - B
A Distant Trumpet (Raoul Walsh) 1964 - C-

Notation : ABCDE

30 Personal Favorites Of 2009

2010-02-02T14:13:00.004+01:00

1. Roman Holiday (William Wyler) 1953
2. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) 1964
3. Il Sorpaso / Le Fanfaron (Dino Risi) 1962
4. The Great Ziegfield (Robert Z.Leonard) 1936
5. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick) 1964

6. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Douglas Sirk) 1952
7. The Aquatic Life With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) 2004
8. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk) 1955
9. Never Say Goodbye (James V.Kern) 1946
10. Spendor In The Grass (Elia Kazan) 1961

11. Monika (Ingmar Bergman) 1953
12. Jour de Fête (Jacques Tati) 1949
13. Parlons Femmes (Ettore Scola) 1964
14. The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen) 1985
15. The Intruder (Roger Corman)1962

16. Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi) 1996
17. The Children's Hour (William Wyler) 1961
18. Quand Passent Les Cigognes (Mikhail Kalatozov) 1958
19. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
20. No Highway In The Sky (Henry Koster) 1951

21. The Road To Memphis (Richard Pearce & Robert Kenner) 2003
22. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock) 1944
23. The Foutainhead (King Vidor) 1949
24. En Compagnie De Max Linder (Trois films de sa période américaine début 20's)
25. Bonne Chance ! (Sacha Guitry) 1935

26. Le Gout De La Cerise (Abbas Kiaromasti) 1997
27. Le Vase De Sable (Yoshitaro Nomura) 1974
28. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey) 1937
29. The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick) 1951
30. Guess Who's Coming For Dinner (Stanley Kramer) 1967

Et pour quelques films de plus : Hatari (Howard Hawks), Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks) 1964, One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch) 1932, Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch) 1932 Magnificient Obsession (Douglas Sirk) 1954, No Room For The Groom (Douglas Sirk) 1952, Boomerang! (Elia Kazan) 1947, Wild River (Elia Kazan) 1960, The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock) 1956, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Irving Reis) 1947, Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon) 1933, Atlantic City U.S.A (Louis Malle) 1980, The Big Combo (Joseph H.Lewis) 1955, Kiss Of Death (Henry Hathaway) 1947, Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding) 1947, Stormy Weather (Andrew L.Stone) 1943, Deliverance (John Boorman) 1972, Knock (Guy Lefranc) 1951, The Valley Of Decision (Tay Garnett) 1945, A Letter To Three Wives (Joseph L.Mankiewicz) 1949, Sciuscià (Vittorio De Sica) 1946, The Brink's Job (William Friedkin), Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks) 1960, The Macomber Affair (Zoltan Korda) 1947, Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer) 1961, The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood) 1942, Young Mr Lincoln (John Ford) 1939, Tin Star (Anthony Mann) 1957, A Nous La Liberté (René Clair) 1931, La Nuit Américaine (Francois Truffaut) 1973, Casino (Martin Scorsese) 1995, The Bad News Bears (Michael Richie) 1976, A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) 2006

Top Ten, January 2010

2010-02-01T14:26:00.000+01:00

29 films.

1. ex aequo New York, New York (Martin Scorsese) 1977 / To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan) 1962
3. Trust (Hal Hartley) 1990
4. The War Game (Peter Watkins) 1965
5. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin) 1947
6. Boys Don't Cry (Kimberley Peirce) 1999
7. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley) 1989
8. Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura) 1976
9. Le Cimetière De La Morale (Kinji Fukusaku) 1975
10. Annie Hall (Woody Allen) 1977

Top Ten, December 2009

2010-01-02T14:19:00.001+01:00

23 films.

1. No Highway In The Sky (Henry Koster) 1951
2. The Brink's Job (William Friedkin) 1978
3. Melinda & Melinda (Woody Allen) 2004
4. The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton) 1974
5. An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey) 1957
6. Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen) 1993
7. This Earth Of Mine (Henry King) 1959
8. Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman) 2008
9. Lo Scopone Scitentifica / L'Argent de la Vieille (Luigi Comencini) 1972
10. Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo) 1998

Top Ten, November 2009

2009-12-02T14:22:00.000+01:00

20 films.

1. The Aquatic Life With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) 2004
2. The Macomber Affair (Zoltan Korda) 1947
3. The Valley Of Decision (Tay Garnett) 1945
4. Days Of Glory (Jacques Tourneur) 1944
5. Angel (Ernst Lubitsch) 1937
6. The War Of The Roses (Danny DeVito) 1988
7. Barton Fink (Coen's brotha) 1991
8. American Gangster (Ridley Scott) 2007
9. La Vie D'un Honnête Homme (Sacha Guitry) 1952
10. The Great Sinner (Robert Siodmak) 1949

FLOP : The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma) 2006, Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh) 1951

Top Ten, October 2009

2009-11-05T14:24:00.000+01:00

30 films.

1. Never Say Goodbye (James V.Kern) Errol Flynn 1946
2. A Letter To Three Wives (Joseph L.Mankiewicz) 1949
3. The Children's Hour (William Wyler) 1961
4. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer) 1961
5. Alice (Woody Allen) 1990
6. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner) 1989
7. Victor Victoria (Blake Edwards) 1982
8. The Far Country (Anthony Mann) 1954
9. Man's Favorite Sport ? (Howard Hawks) 1964
10. Tin Star (Anthony Mann) 1957

11e ex-aequo : The Panic In Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg) 1971, L'Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes (Truffaut) 1977, A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) 2006

Bottom : Taken (Pierre Morel) 2008, Du Mouron Pour Les Petits Oiseaux (Marcel Carné) 1963, Witness (Peter Weir) 1985

Top Ten September 2009

2009-10-02T13:11:00.001+02:00

31 fillms.

1. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) 1964
2. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk) 1955
3. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick) 1962
4. Zelig (Woody Allen) 1983
5. Parlons Femmes (Ettore Scola) 1964
6. Le Gout De La Cerise (Ari Kiaromasti) 1997
7. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock) 1944
8. Hannah & Her Sisters (Woody Allen) 1986
9. Magnificient Obsession (Douglas Sirk) 1954
10. The Squid & The Whale (Noah Baumbach) 2005

Top Ten, August 2009

2009-09-02T12:13:00.002+02:00

30 films.

1. Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick) Peter Sellers 1964
2. Monika (Ingmar Bergman) Hariett Andersson 1953
3. Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch) Lionel Barrymore 1932
4. Sciuscià (Vittorio De Sica) 1946
5. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen) 1982
6. The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen) Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels 1985
7. La Main Du Diable (Maurice Tourneur) 1943
8. One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch) Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald 1932
9. La Montée Au Ciel (Luis Bunuel) 1951
10. Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood) 1997

Top Ten, July 2009

2009-08-01T22:57:00.001+02:00

21 films.

1. Splendor In The Grass (Elia Kazan) 1961
2. Serpico (Sidney Lumet) 1973
3. Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen) 2002
4. Blood Work (Clint Eastwood) 2002
5. Idioterne (Lars Von Trier) 1998
6. La Nuit Américaine (François Truffaut) 1973
7. L.A Confidential (Curtis Hanson) 1997
8. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff) 2001

BOTTOM : Blues Brothers (John Landis) 1980, Bride of the Monster (Ed Wood) 1955

Top Ten, June 2009

2009-07-02T23:03:00.000+02:00

44 films.

1. Il Sorpaso / Le Fanfaron (Dino Risi) Vittorio Gassman 1962
2. The Intruder (Roger Corman) William Shatner 1962
3. En Compagnie De Max Linder (Trois films de sa période américaine début 20's)
4. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo Mccarey) 1937
5. Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks) 1960
6. Guess Who's Coming For Dinner (Stanley Kramer) 1967
7. Niagara (Henry Hathaway) 1953
8. Le Vase De Sable (Yoshitaro Nomura) 1974
9. The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, Irwin Allen) 1974
10. Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway) Victor Mature/Richard Widmark 1947

BOTTOM : Tower of London (Rowland V.Lee) 1939, Rookie of the Year (Baseball's Disney) 1993.

Top Ten, May 2009

2009-06-03T23:04:00.000+02:00

43 films.

1. A Nous La Liberté (René Clair) Henry Marchand, Raymond Cordy 1931
2. Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi) Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny 1996
3. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Douglas Sirk) Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn 1952
4. The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick) Alec Guiness 1951
5. Stormy Weather (Andrew L. Stone) Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, Fats Waller 1943
6. L'Air de Paris (Marcel Carné) Jean Gabin/Arletty 1954
7. A Mort l'Arbitre (Jean Pierre Mocky) Michel Serrault 1984
8. L'Amour avec des Gants (Maurizio Nichetti) 1991
9. She's Gotta Have It (Nola Darling) (Spike Lee) 1986
10. Living In Oblivion (Tom DiCillo) Steve Buscemi 1995

Bullshit Detector : The Chase (Arthur Penn) 1966, West Of Shanghai (John Farrow) Karloff 1937, La cité de l'indicible peur (Mocky) Bourvil 1964

Bobby Hebb - Love, Love, Love

2009-05-12T10:26:00.004+02:00

* Philips, 40400 - "A Satisfied Mind" / "Love Love Love" (1966)

Love is a smile you give me that makes my day seem brighter
Love is your arms around me makes my troubles lighter
When I hold your hands so tightly, I'm feelin' that I'm stronger
I feel so much about you, I jus't can't wait no longer

Of the wonderful touch of your lips, the wonderful world of desire
Love is a sweet tender night & your kisses setting my soul on fire
Love is a dream come true, Love is a girl like you

Love's no limits baby, It's sweet and yet that's heartache
Love is a sound of laugthers of boys & girls make
Sweet love is all around you so love's its own refrain
In love there's so much pleasure and yet there's so much pain

Love is a girl like you babe so warm and all so tender
Love is a power baby that's making me surrender
When I look into your soft eyes, I melt like candy jam
I do anything to please you, yes anything I can

Ian Levine's Tube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBCN80tdPY

http://www.box.net/shared/adympdh4u4

Jackie Edwards - I Feel So Bad

2009-05-06T12:15:00.000+02:00

Island Records, WI-3006 - "I Feel So Bad" / "I Don't Want To Be Made A Fool Out Of" (1966)

My Baby, My Baby
You've gone away and left me,
You've gone away & left me alone for somebody else
And now I'm feeling sad

Everything I've done
I've done it all because of you girl
I don't know why I'm gonna do
Now that you've gone to somebody else
Makes me feel so bad

I Feel So Bad
I Feel So Sad Now

I love you baby for the very start
You've lied you wouldn't break my heart
Now you left me all alone to cry
'Cause I still gonna love you til' the day I died

My Baby, My Baby
You've gone away and left me,
You've gone away & left me alone for somebody else
Makes me feel so sad

I Feel So Bad
I Feel So Sad

http://www.box.net/shared/iss1jnbo9f

Tommy Hunt - I'll Make You Happy

2009-05-03T12:00:00.002+02:00

Capitol 5621, "I'll Make You Happy" / "The Clown" (1966)

Everything I wanna do, oh baby
I wanna do with you, oh baby

I'm so sorry
I made tears running down your cheeks
I didn't mean to make you cry
I didn't want to hurt you
If you take me back again
I'll do everything that I can to make you happy

I'm gonna make you happy

Everything I wanna do, oh baby
I wanna do with you, oh baby

Oh my little baby
I didn't realize when you're mine
How much I love you and what you really meant to me
How far must from that very soul
That is you I wanna hold
I'll Make You Happy

I Know I'll Make You Happy This Time Baby
(I'm really gonna try...)

Biograghy from his official website : http://www.tommyhunt.co.uk/biog.htm

http://www.box.net/shared/4670atqage

Top Ten, April 2009

2009-05-01T23:06:00.001+02:00

29 films.

1. The Great Ziegfield (Robert Z.Leonard) William Powell/Myrna Loy 1936
2. Boomerang (Elia Kazan) Dana Andrews, Lee J.Cobb 1947
3. Jour de Fête (Jacques Tati) 1949
4. Atlantic City, USA (Louis Malle) Burt Lancaster/Susan Sarandon 1980
5. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock) James Stewart/Doris Day 1956
6. Bonne Chance (Sacha Guitry) Guitry/Jacqueline Delubac 1936
7. Delivrance (John Boorman) John Voight, Burt Reynolds 1972
8. Faisons Un Rêve (Sacha Guitry) Guitry, Charlotte Lysès 1936
9. The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis) Cornel Wilde/Richard Conte 1955
10. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (H.C Potter) Cary Grant/Myrna Loy/Melvyn Douglas 1948

Bullshit Detector : Contes de la folie ordinaire (marco ferreri), Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman), Be Kind Rewind, Die Hard 4.

Tams - Hey Girl Don't Bother Me

2009-04-25T16:06:00.000+02:00

Hey Girl Don't Bother Me
Stay away girl, go away come back another day
Hey Girl Don't Bother Me

I heard about you from my friends
What really gets so long
They say you broke the heart
Of every boy in town

They say you like to cheat
They say you're just a little flirt
And if I fall for you
I'm surely gonna get hurt OK

Hey Girl Don't Bother Me
Stay out of my arms
Don't try to use your charms

But I really got to say
You look so fine
And you're also hard to resist
But I know i gotta stay away
'Cause I might fall for you
And I don't want to be added to your list OK

Hey Girl Don't Bother Me
Afraid if I kissed you, I might not resist you

http://www.box.net/shared/x7bogazo2b

Released in 1964, was a regional hit in the U.S before it topped the UK charts in 1971 thanks to the northern soul scene. Maybe the only one number one single connected to the northern. One of the Tams forgot his dance steps during Top Of The Pops. You can find some reggae covers of "Hey Girl Don't Bother Me" on youtube.

Michael and Raymond - Man Without A Woman

2009-04-22T14:52:00.005+02:00

* RCA 47-9244, "Man Without A Woman" / "Walking The Dog" (1967)

A man has many things that he was due
Though he's got to find the time for lovin' too
Man wasn't made to leave all alone
He was made to have some children and a home

Man Without A Woman is like a flower without rain
Man Without A Woman relief is like in vain

So withdraw without love, you'd better look around
'Cause there are many girls who wish they could be find

A man has many things that he was due
Though he's got to find the time for lovin' too
Man wasn't made to leave all alone
He was made to have some children and a home

http://www.box.net/shared/mnrddxpp07

Clydie King - Soft And Gentle Ways

2009-04-19T10:00:00.004+02:00

* Imperial 66172, "He Always Comes Back To Me" / "Soft And Gentle Ways" (1966)

Don't use your gentle ways to make me do the things I know I shouldn't do
Don't use your gentle ways to make me think the lies you're telling me are true
When you whisper gently to me you know how the suffer makes me feel
But I've heard about that before and baby I know your love just unreal

Don't use your burning kiss to start a fire in me I know I can't control
Don't use your misty eyes cause I won't fall again I've seen those tears before
But if you can prove me at all the love you have to offer me is true
I would gladly give in to the love and soft and gentle ways of you

Don't think your gentle ways can just erase the feelin' I have of loving you
Those soft spoken words are empty sounds there's nothing you can do
But if you can prove me at all the love you have to offer me is true
I would gladly give in to the love and soft and gentle ways of you

Don't use your gentle ways, Don't use your gentle ways...

http://www.box.net/shared/bq2m79l1lt

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Get Out (And Let Me Cry)

2009-04-17T11:20:00.003+02:00

Landa, 703 - "Get Out (And Let Me Cry)" / "You May Not Love Me" (1965) Lead Vocal By John Atkins

Just hung up the telephone
I've heard a lot about you
Your new boyfriend couldn't wait to tell me huh
That you and I are through
Don't try to spin my feelings...

Just Get Out (And Let Me Cry)

I give my best to you
What I am supposed to do
Don't stand here and look silly...

Just Get Out (And Let Me Cryyyyyyyyy)

If what he said is true
I own (allow) all the best for you
Couldn't look just to see me cry so...

Just Get Out (And Let Me Cry)

I don't know where or when
I know I love her again
This must be hard for you
So I'll tell you what you'd better do
You'd better Get Out (& Let Me Cry)

http://www.box.net/shared/4d2730a0ma

Velvet Hammer - Happy

2009-04-15T20:41:00.001+02:00

Soozi 112 "Happy" / "Party Hardy" (1977)

I call her Happy
She makes me feel that way when I come home at night
She puts her arms around me, she kisses and hugs me makes everything allright

And everynight in my room
I can smell her sweet perfume
And it's happy, Happy All My Life

I call her Joy
'cause she travels through the world of a lonely boy
Joy everynight 'cause she knows how to squeeze me and make me feel right

And everynight in my room
I can smell her sweet perfume
And it's joy, Joy all my life

I call her Pleasure
'cause the loving she's giving you, just can't measure
I call her sweetness 'cause when I look at her eyes I can see my weakness

And everynight in my room
I can smell her sweet perfume
It's pleasure, pleasure all my life

She really makes me happy
in the evening
with the pleasure
that you give me
make me happy
Happy in my life
Joy in the world
Sweet of the Sweet
She's the pearl of the girl

http://www.box.net/shared/88jvsvtjcq

Bob Relf - Blowing My Mind To Pieces

2009-04-14T13:03:00.003+02:00

* Trans-American, 0010-B (1968)

You say that you leave me underneath baby don't need me
But baby you didn't have to do what you've done behind my back
With someone on you who holdin' a kissin'
Just the way we used to love
You say you realized the stretch you made
I keep trying to hear you baby

You're Just Blowin' My Mind To Pieces
(you just ruinin' my mind so more)
You Keep Blowin' My Mind To Pieces
(you got me hurt like never before)

Hey, you gotta stop baby, hanging up now

Girl, I'm gonna have to put you down
'Cause I'm so tired of being messed around
I've told you a long long time ago
You keep blowin' my mind
I'm gonna have to let you go
I give you everything that I have
You just woudn't let me be your man

Blowing My Mind To Pieces
(I've said I've gotta to get me out this place)
Blowing My Mind To Pieces
(I've said I've gotta to get me back in the rain)

Bob Relf's Biography : http://www.millbrand.com/bobrelf.html

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Frankie Valli - You're Ready Now

2009-04-12T11:41:00.001+02:00

Smash, 2037 - "You're Ready Now" / "Cry For Me" (1966)

When I met you, you were too young
To hang around where the groupies hung
To swing and dance where the swingers swung

You're Ready Now, You're Ready Now, You're Ready Now...

You grew up fast like over-night
You sure have changed, girl, you're out of sight
You wanna swing and dance all night

You pick up quick, I knew you would
You move and groove just the way you should
You've got that feel, you're learnin' good

Come on near me, come on baby
Do you hear me ? Yes I hear you

You've got it girl, you've got that talk
You've got that wiggle in the way you walk
You've got, I see, what gets to me

You're Ready Now, You're Ready Now, You're Ready Now...

http://www.box.net/shared/c85urgucom

Top Five, March 2009

2009-04-03T23:08:00.000+02:00

22 films.

1. Le Voleur de Savonnettes (Maurizio Nichetti) Maurizio Nichetti, Caterina Sylos Labini 1989
2. Retour à la Vie (Georges Lampin, André Cayate, Clouzot, Jean Dréville) 1949
3. Quand Passent Les Cigognes (Mikhail Kalatozov) 1958
4. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Irving Reis) Cary Grant/Myrna Loy 1947
5. I complessi (les complexés) (Dino Risi, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Franco Rossi) 1965

Bullshit Detector : Sorry Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak) 1948.

Velvet Satins - Nothing Can Compare To You

2009-03-28T09:46:00.005+01:00

* General American, 006 "Nothing Can Compare To You" / "Up To The Rooftop" (1965)

I can't compare you to the stars,
There's no flowers as pretty as you are,
Way you smile, way you walk, way you laugh & way you talk

Nothing Can Compare To You

Can't compare you to the jewels
If somebody try, it'll be a fool
How you shine your own way, turn my darkness (...) today

Nothing Can Compare To You...

http://www.box.net/shared/oi7snq42y8

R.I.P Eddie Bo 1930-2009

2009-03-25T09:47:00.004+01:00

(Smokey & Eddie)

New Orleans R&B, early funk (one of the precursors like Willie Tee who put the funk into New Orleans map), singer, arranger, producer, pianist, great lyricist too ("You'd better check that spinach / Olive's in the danger zone" "Check Mr. Popeye" 1961)... Eddie Bo passed away and I'm completely screwed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/arts/music/24bo.html?_r=1&ref=music

Dana Valery - You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies

2009-03-23T11:13:00.001+01:00

* Columbia, 44004 (1967)

You can hear Paul Simon singing the small part "You don't begin to comprehend".

You don't know that you love me
You don't know but I know that you do
You may think you're above me
What you think isn't always true

Don't try to debate me
You should know that I'm womanly wise
Still you try to manipulate me
You don't know where your interest lies

You don't know where your interest lies
You don't begin to comprehend

You're just a game I like to play
You may think that we're friends all right
But I won't let friendship get in my way
I won't let friendship get in my way

You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies

http://www.box.net/shared/k2cdo8kqzd

Bobby Kline - Say Something Nice To Me

2009-03-21T01:50:00.001+01:00

* MB Records, 1001

Say something nice to me, don't just say goodbye
If this just has to be, at least won't you tell me why
Before I've break down in front of you & cry like I wanna do

Say something nice to me baby, girl say smething nice to me now
Baby, My Love, I don't want to say goodbye, talk to me

You just can't walk away from all those things we've planned
One minute more, just stay and try to understand
'Cause I don't know baby when I'll see you again to (...) until then

You know I love you girl as long as I've sheltered this
What have I done so bad that you just can't forgive ?
Talk to me baby with your special tone and while you're in my arms...

Say Something Nice To Me !

http://www.box.net/shared/l3j70sgoqf

Chi-Lites - 24 Hours of Sadness

2009-03-20T01:14:00.005+01:00

* Brunswick 55426, "24 Hours Of Sadness" / "You're No Longer Part Of My Heart" (1970)

24 hours of sadness, since my baby's been missing
24 hours of madness, all I need is just a kiss

Wish I knew just where I can find her
She don't know love she left behind her

24 hours of teardrops since my baby's been missing
24 hours of heartbreak, all I need is just a kiss

How can I live without her
She don't know love she left behind her

24 hours of sorrow, oh maybe tomorrow
24 hours of breathing, all I need is just a kiss

She don't know love she left behind her
Wish I could, Wish I could remind her

http://www.box.net/shared/1qr7c3uoqy

I annouce that "24 Hours of Sadness" is the greatest song ever... for this week. So smooth, so soul, so philly... How can you not root for this guy in love with his ex-girlfriend ? Hey, that could have been me.

Bernie Williams - Ever Again

2009-03-16T13:25:00.001+01:00

Bernie Williams - Ever Again

* Bell Records, 768 (1969)

Early we meet oh baby then we kiss
Then we find that lovely place
Before we met each other I was so alone
Yes I was, and so now I've got yes I have someone to call my home
and I know I won't be lonely Ever Again

Now love is sweet, allright If your girl got soul
Life complete yes it is with someone who hold
and so now I have someone to help me make my dreams come true
I've got someone who change my grey sky to blue
and I know I won't be lonely Ever Again (noooooo baby)

So now I know that two for one yes I do
Now some hot arrow now we've got someone
and so now we go together as to face my destiny
Now we know that love, allright, is the right can be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hv4fwemmmA

http://www.box.net/shared/6dzf65axto

Gaylettes - Heartaches I Can't Take It

2009-03-15T13:02:00.003+01:00

The Gaylettes - Heartaches I Can't Take It (Black Jack)

I've been dissolution it's so much confusion
I was satisfied until I was deny
'Cause with my baby, he can't to let me go
The heartaches began to grow

Heartaches I Can't Take It

I tried my best to make you my baby
Cause lovin' understandin' but you're too demandin'
Now you tell me the end is near
Baby now listen here

I can take a headache maybe two babe
But heartaches I can't take
I can lose my money, it wouldn't be the end
But losing you wouldn't be the same

At your mercy, I need some sympathy
And baby I'm hopin that you're just jokin'
'Cause if you ever tried to put me down
And this, right in the ground

Heartaches I Can't Take It

Top Ten, October 2009

2009-03-11T14:24:00.001+01:00

Top Ten, October 2009

2009-03-11T14:24:00.000+01:00

Top Ten, February 2009

2009-03-03T23:10:00.000+01:00

21 films

1. Casino (Martin Scorsese) 1995
2. Young Mr Lincoln (John Ford) 1939
3. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (ernst lubitsch) 1938
4. The Bad New Bears (Michael Ritchie) 1976
5. The Natural (Barry Levinson) 1984
6. Hatari ! (Howard Hawks)
7. Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway) 1935

Bullshit Detector : The Sentinel (avec Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Douglas), Majin (Kimeyoshi Yasuda), The Rookie (baseball disney)

Tobi Legend - Time Will Pass You By

2009-03-01T09:42:00.002+01:00

Tobi Legend - Time Will Pass You By

Passing seasons over fade away
Into misty clouds of autumn grey
As I sit here looking at the street
Little figures quickly moving feet

I'm just a pebble on the beach and I
Sit and wonder why
Little people running around
Never knowing why

Life is just a precious minute baby
Open up your eyes and see it baby
Give yourself a better chance
Because time will pass you right on by

This big old world is spinning like a top
Come and help me pal and make it stop
All you have to do is live for now
Come along with me and I'll show you how

Take my hand I'll show you how to live
Why wait until tomorrow?
Take my hand I'll lead the way
To a brighter day

Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over

2009-02-28T23:38:00.003+01:00

Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonigh Is All Over (composed by David-Bacharach)

Musicor, 1042 (1964)

Tonight with you for the first time
I have learned what my lips are for
And darling now that I've kissed you
I'm craving to kiss you more
Let me tell you...

Long after tonight is all over
Long after tonight is all gone
I'll be yours, for ever and a day I'm yours,
come anything that may
You'll always be just everything to me

Here in my arms when I hold you
I can feel that the world is mine
Don't go away, don't you leave me
Or I'll cry til' the end of time
Let me tell you...

Long after tonight is all over
Long after it's all gone
I'll be yours
Come anything that may and I'm yours for ever and a day
Youll always be just everything to me

http://www.box.net/shared/8ompz4zzhh

Too Many Records for One Heart

2009-02-23T10:59:00.004+01:00

Sometimes even when you look carefully at the record shop, it's hard to decide what to get. Life is like that with difficult choices. What I've purchase at Rambouillet :

33 1/3 rpm

Xavier Cugat et son Orchestre - "Grands Succès" (Mercury)
Brook Benton - Golden Hits (Mercury)
Fats Waller and his Rhythm 1934 to 1936 - The Classic Years in digital stereo (BBC)
Bill Kenny sings the Golden Hits of the Ink Spots (Fontana)
The Mills Brothers - Opus One (Rediffusion)
The Special Magic of Fred Astaire (Verve)
Music by the Band of H.M. Rotal Marines
Hawaiian Beachcombers - Hawaii is Waiting For You (World Record Club)
Carlos Gardel (RCA)
The Platters - Vol.2 (Mercury)
New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory (CBS)
Count Basie and his Orchestra (Mode, original recording on Roulette Records)
Nouvelle Orléans avec Boris Vian et l'Orchestre de Claude Abadie & Claude Luter et son Orchestre (Odeon)
British Motown Chartbusters (Tamla Motown)
Sandy Posey - Best Of (MGM)
Ann Shelton - Showcase (World Record Club)
Flanaghan & Allen - Best Of (Encore)
Joe Loss - Let's Dance at the Make Believe Ballroom (World Record Club)
Adriano Celentano - Rock (Musidisc)

45rpm

Connie Francis EP where she sings in french (MGM)
Connie Francis EP where this time she sgings in italian (MGM)
The Intruders - I Bet He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) / Do You Remember Yesterday (Gamble)
Louis Armstrong & the All Stars "Basin Street Blues" & Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra "Air Mall Special" (Brunswick)
Edwin Hawkins' Singers - Blowin' In The Wind (print test on Buddah Records)
Golden Gate Quartet - Negro Spirituals (Concert Hall)
Jimmy Jones - Handy Man / The Search Is Over (MGM)

Garnet Mimms - Looking For You

2009-02-21T14:42:00.004+01:00

Garnet Mimms - Looking For You

* United Artists, 951 (1965)

Looking For You... Everywhere !

I miss the touch of your fingertips
The burnin' fire of your sweet lips
How can I go on like this, baby I need you

Since the day you left me
I'm findin' lonely memory
Make it how it used to be

I stop in places we used to go
Ask if they've seen you, well nobody knows
I look for you up and down the street

That's why I'm Looking For You... Everywhere !

There's a pain inside me
Cause' I need you so desperately
I want more than memories

Garnet Mimms - Looking For You http://www.box.net/shared/ilc2q27vd9

Patti Austin - Loosen Up Your Heart

2009-02-18T10:06:00.001+01:00

Loosen Up Your Heart & let me love you

Hey little blue boy, stop your sighing
You're much too handsome to be crying
The world's not coming to an end
You're about to fall in love again

I know you'd be hurt and so rightly
That another girl took your love so lightly
& now you say in love's a game
But every girl is not the same

Just like your love let me down
And so I know how if feeled to be lonely
Don't you know we needed each other so
And I could show you if you're lonely only

Loosen Up Your Heart and let me love you

Willie Hightower - Because I Love You

2009-02-17T00:07:00.005+01:00

Another song from "Soothers & Movers" on Goldmine (only 2 copies in The Mighty Milky Way & I know these pals). Never bored of this compilation, like the old saying goes : "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

Why am I always doin' everything you tell me to do ?
Why am I always going out of my way to please you ?

Why do I let you treat me in the way you desire ?
Never do anything about it, all I have do is sittin' and cryin'

I give up my fortune, I give up my faith
Before I would take a chance of losing you baby
Don't you know I give up anything ?

Why whatever you need me
All I do is cry
That's the way it goes, baby
Here's the reason why

Because I Love You (Because He Loves Her)

Willie Hightower - Because I Love You http://www.box.net/shared/fdg6aie3ua

Pour une poignée de scènes... #1

2009-02-15T22:01:00.007+01:00

La fameuse scène du pamplemousse in your face dans l’un des films qui pose les bases du film de gangster “The Public Enemy” de William A. Wellman (1931) … Comme l’histoire bégaie et a souvent la mémoire défaillante, aujourd’hui tout le monde revendique l’idée : Cagney, Wellman le réalisateur ou bien Darryl Zanuck l’un des pontes de la Warner, mais rendons à César ce qui blah blah…

L’idée leur est venu d’un fait divers faisant les gros titres dans les journaux d’un célèbre gangster Earl “Hymie” Weiss n’en pouvant du blah blah blah de sa petite amie finit par lui écraser l’omelette qu’elle venait de lui cuisiner dans la gueule ! C’était l’époque où les exploits des gangsters s’affichaient en grande pompe dans les journaux américains et suscitant un big écho, un peu à la manière du mauvais gouts des peoples qui se vautrent partout à notre époque… Le parallèle étant que ce sont des personnes étalant leurs merdes que nous avalons subjuguée parce que ça brille…

Ca n’a pas l’air comme ça mais c’est une scène d’une VIOLENCE ! Personne n’avait jamais vu ça à l’écran et encore moins des personnages se complaisant là dedans.

Dans son autobiographie, Cagney raconte qu’il y avait toujours un petit malin pour lui commander une assiette de pamplemousses au resto… Il évoque aussi que la scène en question faisait beaucoup rire le mari de l’actrice qui se prend le pamplemousse alors que leur couple n’était pas au mieux.

J’adore Cagney… Lorsque j’ai découvert ce type, je ne vivais plus que dans l’attente du prochain film que je verrais avec lui… The Public Enemy est le film qui fait de lui une star. Hollywood cherchant à ne pas être dans l’oeil du cyclone, trouvera petit à petit ses marques avec une “morale” bien américaine, Cagney suivra la même évolution et après avoir joué les méchants, il sera dans le camp qui les traque ("'G' Men 1935") puis dans des comédies (parfois musicales comme "Yankee Doodle Dandy" 1942). Mais à jamais, ça sera un Tough Guy, une pile électrique, un jeu extraverti. Tough Guy un jour, Tough Guy toujours.

J’étais bien tenté de mettre la scène finale mais… euh c’est la fin^^ - ça m’a jamais dérangé qu’on me vende les ficelles d’un film parce que ce qui compte c’est comment l’histoire nous est contée, rien à foutre des surprises du scénario.

Chuck Wood - 7 Days Too Long

2009-02-15T21:29:00.005+01:00

(That's the B-Side of "Seven Days Too Long")

First time I called you girl
They say you wasn't home
Then second time I tried it
They say you won't be left alone

We have a lot of quarrels yes we have
Like all lovers do
I'm ready to make up
It's all of left to you now

Seven Days Too Long without you baby
Come on back to me now

I feel so break up because i'm alive
Cause' my love is too strong girl to let it down
The source of problem
Cause I see the danger sign you know
It's ripped on your face
Justice (...)

Let's stop playing girl I go sick
i can't stand being without you baby another week
You got me soured, I can't even concentrate
You know good things come, I say good things come (...)
I can't wait no longer listen to me girl

Seven Days Too Long Without You Baby

http://www.box.net/shared/plhdqti1su

Dobie Gray - Out On The Floor

2009-02-15T21:16:00.002+01:00

Out on the floor each night, I'm really movin'
The band's is wailin' right i feel like groovin'
The chicks are out of sight and i am grooving
The crowd is in tonight beggin' for more

I am on the floor tonight, I feel like singin
The beat is running right and guitars are ringin'
I'm really on tonight and everything swingin'
The room is packed out tight, light at the door

I Get My Kicks Out On The Floor

When I'm out on the floor, it makes me feel like a king,
Everybody here, don't you know what I mean
It makes me wanna move (makes me wanna move).
It makes me feel that groove (make me feel that groove).
I wanna twist and shout (makes me twist and shout).
Work it on out (make me work it on out)

James Fountain - Seven Day Lover

2009-02-15T20:44:00.003+01:00

Thanks to Ian Levine for this gem, Sweet Soul Man.

Soul Butter

2009-02-14T09:46:00.001+01:00

Découvrez The Fairfield Four!

The O'Jays - No Time For You

2009-02-13T22:58:00.006+01:00

No Time For You

It's been long time since I've held you in my ams,
And even longer time since I've felt the magic of your charms,
You did me wrong and now you see long til' come back home,

I'ts been a long time since you took the first place,
Even longer time since my love for you is sustainend,
But you treated me bad & now you've lost the only love you've had

No Time For You (baby believe me when i say i've got no time no time for you)

Your love was something baby, (...)
I don' t want to see you, I'm gonna leave you behind

It's been a long time since you broke you broke my heart,
Even longer time girl since we we've been apart,
And now my heart is (...) I've got to find myself another girl

Top Ten, January 2009

2009-02-03T23:12:00.000+01:00

16 films

1. The Road To Memphis (Richard Pearce et Robert Kenner) 2003
2. The Foutainhead (King Vidor) 1949
3. A Perfect WorLd (Clint Eastwood) 1993

Bullshit Detector : Kalifornia (Dominic Sena) 1993, Forty Guns (avec Barbara Stanwyck... it hurts me too honey / de Samuel Fuller l'abominable réalisateur de "Pickup On South Street"), My Super Ex Girl Friend (avec Uma Thurman), Female (Michael Curtiz) 1933

The World's Forgotten Boy Died (& Nobody Cares...)

2009-01-08T23:43:00.002+01:00

R.I.P Ron Asheton July 1948 - January 2009

Like "1969" said :

"It's 1969 Baby, War Across The U.S.A
It's Another Year For Me & You
Another Year With Nothing To Do... "

Nothing Change. Yes We Can, That is nothing but bullshit.

Joltin' Joe DiMaggio !

2008-09-30T19:05:00.003+02:00

LES BROWN & HIS ORCHESTRA - Joltin' Joe DiMaggio

Une baseball song que j'ai découverte il y a un peu plus d'un an grâce à fantastique show radio de Bob Dylan consacré pour le coup au baseball. Cette chanson m'était tombée dessus (avec "Take Me Out To The Ball Game") et l'amour du jeu qui va avec.

On n'en fait plus des novelty songs comme ça... Le 45T était sorti, carrément, durant cette série de runs. Les mecs de la maison de disque avaient dégainé direct vendant des singles par wagons. Une chanson si jouissive... Ca marche toujours comme ça les novelties (notez le "good twelve more" du second couplet, un truc anodin mais qui permet à tout le monde de faire sienne de la chanson en changeant le "12" à chaque nouvelle étape franchit par Joe, c'est pratique, interactif, c'est la pop music quoi !). Les Américains doivent se souvenir de cette "streak" associée à cette chanson comme du début de l'été, du soleil qui claque sur la nuque et de la 2WW qui bat son plein. Ombre et Lumière, Adolf Hitler vs. DiMaggio. Les radios et les journaux s'en faisaient l'écho et les exploits de DiMaggio étaient aussi légers dans les esprits que la guerre pouvait être pesante.

Mais ce n'est pas seulement une chanson sur Joe DiMaggio, le "Yankee Clipper" plutôt une chanson à la gloire de sa "fifty-six game hitting streak" débutant le 15 mai 1941 face au pitcher des White Sox Eddie Smith pour en finir le 16 juillet 1941 à Cleveland devant Al Minar et Joe Krakauskas (dernier couplet "Cleveland Oh Oh Oh...").

Uné série de 56 matchs où Joltin' Joe frappera un coup sur à chaque match. Sur la série, son pourcentage à la batte est de .408 dont 15 Home Runs (+4 triples et 16 doubles, 55RBI). Durant la Streak, ni le All Star Game et la tripotée de futurs pitchers Hall Of Famers n'arrêtera Joe. Et le plus fort dans l'histoire, c'est qu'après sa série terminée, Monsieur remettra le couvercle (nouvelle série de 16 matchs) ! Une saison 1941 qui le verra remporter le titre de MVP devant Ted Williams et son % à la batte de .406! et les World Series avec les Yankees donc.

En 1973, le commisionner de la Major League Baseball ira même à établir un Top Ten des records imbattables (depuis certains ont été battus mais celui de DiMaggio court toujours !) : http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/lifrick.shtml

Hello Joe, whatta you know?
We need a hit so here I go.
Ball one (Yea!)
Ball two (Yea!)
Strike one (Booo!)
Strike two (Kill that umpire!)
A case of Wheaties

He started baseball's famous streak
That's got us all aglow
He's just a man and not a freak,
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio

He tied the mark at forty-four
July the 1st you know
Since then he's hit a good twelve more
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio

From coast to coast that's all you'll hear
Of Joe the one man show
He's glorified the horsehide sphere
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio

He'll live in baseball's Hall of Fame
He got there blow by blow
Our kids will tell their kids his name
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio

We dream of Joey with the light brown plaque

And now they speak in whispers low
Of how they stopped our Joe
One night in Cleveland Oh Oh Oh
Goodbye streak DiMaggio

Joe, Joe DiMaggio
We want you on our side

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” Casablanca 1942

2008-09-29T18:29:00.006+02:00

Ernie Andrews - Where Were You (When I Needed You)

Oh baby now that you're here,
What's that I see : "Is it all tears?
Did he tell you goodbye? Is that the reason why you're here?",
I wanna know now that you need me so...

I said WHERE WERE YOU when I needed you,
Where where you when i was going through,
My heartache will fear of now having you near where were you,
You were with him, i was alone...

(where were you when i needed you)

Oh the lonely nights, cracked up on me ,
You left my arms so suddenly, now you're feeling so bad,
"Do you miss the love you had from me?",
I wanna know now that you need me so...

I was alone, I was alone...

http://www.box.net/shared/2hsnj6e7au

Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

2007-11-23T15:13:00.002+01:00

Le Disquaire du Mange-Disques (Clermont de l'Oise) a toujours des histoires magiques à raconter saupoudrées de "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"...

Frank Wilson était un arrangeur/songwriter pour la Motown bossant sur quelques chansons pour les Supremes ("Stone Love"), les Temptations, les Four Tops, Brenda Holloway... Un jour, le Wilson eut la possibilité de sortir son propre disque "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" sur une sous-filiale de la Tamla-Motown baptisée "Soul". Sans promotion particulière, le disque fait son chemin dans les clubs et est pressé à 250 (ou peut être 500 vu que l'Histoire a tendance à s'emmêler les pinceaux très facilement dès qu'on évoque la Pop Music) exemplaires.

Berry Gordy (patron de la Motown qui a fait de son label une gigantesque compagnie de travail à la chaine - Ce n'est pas pour rien qu'on est à Detroit), ayant eu vent de l'affaire, convoque Wilson fissa dans son bureau : "Good Morning buddy... J'ai pu écouter ton 45 et Whoaaaa ! Chapeau ! But Frank, il reste un problème : tu es arrangeur pas chanteur, jete un oeil, c'est écrit noir sur blanc sur ton contrat. On va en rester là, le reste des exemplaires on va les balancer à la poubelle. Tiens, tu as encore fait tomber une liasse de billets de ta veste..."

Donc il ne reste plus rien... mis à part 2 ou 3 exemplaires ! Qui selon "The Northern Soul Top 500" de Kev Roberts est côté à 15 000 £ !

Et cet homme, born again Christian depuis 1976 avec sa femme Bunny, gospel producer, bibles publications, seminary et tout l'attirail ricain du commerce religieux, n'acceptera de monter sur les planches pour chanter cette chanson qu'une seule et unique fois sous les acclamations de la scène Northern ...

Tracks of my Tears #5

2007-09-20T17:14:00.002+02:00

Everybody remembers of the song "Return To sender." (released on the B.O of Girls Girls Girls, one of three elvis hawaiian movies peaked at #2 for 5 weeks in its 16-week run on Billboard's pop singles chart. And #1 during three weeks in British pop charts)... That's not an elvis rock'n' roll song but still sounds good (the session reunited scotty moore on guitar, drums for D.J Fontana/Hal Blaine, the yakety sax Boots Randolph... and the Jordanaires for vocals backup), the song is so cool, so pop with an universal theme that anyone can appreciate it.

Written by the duo Winfried Scott & Otis Blackwell, this song tells us the break-up story between a guy (that we'll call elvis) and his girlfriend. Refusing that their love affair is over, Elvis keeps mailing letters to her girlfriend and each letter returns to him thanks to the postman with the mention "return to sender". We don't know what happened before but i think the girl doesn't take time to answer, to give some explications... Bitch.

It's a real damn good novelty song about a love&hate relationship ! Over 14 millions copies only in the us territory (and it really meant something in the past)!

In January 8, 1933, an elvis commemorative stamp has been print in order to celebrate his birthday (his 58 th ! Can someone explain me why have we to celebrate this year?) ... All along the year 1992, America was tear, on the verge of explosion : WHAT MUST WE CHOOSE ? A young dashing elvis by Mark Stuntzman or an old but mature elvis by John Berkley? Ballots paper were distributed in every post offices across america.
It was tough times, America was divided : if you're not with me, you're against me! (personaly, i think both are ugly so...). Even Bill Clinton (ran for president at this time) voiced for the younger elvis ! The counting gave a huge lead (more than 75 %) for Elvis the young.

This elvis stamp remains far far far the most popular stamp of the U.S Postal Service ahead collections of "Legends of Baseball", "Wonders of America" or "Civil War" and for your own pop culture trivia, you should know that many americans after this special release, wrote invalid adresses on their letters just for having their letter back with the mention "return to sender" on it !!!

And now ladies & gentlemen, you can listen this answer song to "Return To Sender..." called "Don't Want Your Letters" by Gerri Granger, soul woman with few songs on northern soul compilations, which shows the point of view of the "ex elvis girlfriend" aka exactly the opposite meaning of the original song ! And we can see abyssal depths separating boys & girls...

Gerri Granger - Don't Want Your Letters
http://www.box.net/shared/1cb8dfknok

Top 25 Most Popular Commemorative Stamps
http://www.usps.com/communications/news/stamps/2006/sr06_055dl.htm

Willie Tee Passed Away

2007-09-20T10:33:00.002+02:00

The curse of Turbinton's family goes on... One month later after his older brother Earl, a jazz saxophonist, Willie Tee has succumbed quickly of his colon cancer at the age of 63 on Touro Infirmary this september 11. Friends remembered of Willie on http://blog.nola.com/living/2007/09/wilson_willie_tee_turbinton_de.html and it's very blessing...

That's a tough period for me and not only with deaths of willie tee & bobby byrd... But death of any persons related to "Pop Music" remains a terrible shock for me... I think it's just the reflect of the near end of the music I love.

Born Wilson Turbinton in september 6 1944, Willie Tee is an important figure in the creation of this distinctive sound of new orleans. Keyboardist, arranger, producer, songwriter,vocalist, he is also known as one of architects of the early funk of crescent city funk.

When he was a teenager, he made succes with "Teasin You" fantastic mid-tempo soul on Nola produced by the owner Wardell Quezergue who added punchy horns (national distribution by Atlantic). There is many great tunes like "Thank You John", almost the same soulful mid tempo than "Teasin you", "It Was You" with the girls during the chorus and the song that made me cry, completely fall in love with "Walking Up a One Way Street", his majestic nostalgic Northern side powdered by magig trumpets. This song remains one of the best tunes when your gal left you and "tears flow just like rain" and you're walkin' up a one way street... Pretty Picture.

We can remember his part of work with the Gaturs, almost always instrumental, one of the band pionner of the original funk in new orleans where he holds the place of keyboard player... Same funky work with the Wild Magnolias backing with his older brother Earl... With his brother, he also backed up Cannonball Aderley (he dad see Willie performing while he was touring in the same city) (the keyboardist of Cannon, Joe Zawinul died this tuesday... The Curse...) for his passage on Capitol.

Removed in Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina ("I litteraly lost everything in a flash") but nevertheless full of life, he shared his passion with the students of Priceton's university and he's always touring until the ultimate dawn of his life. We can see a long moment of his show on youtube http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=4xrT2JU2s_E (Willie Tee At the Carolina Beach Music Awards nov 2005) ad a short video of Walking Up... in Columbia 2007 here http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0FhgXelb0

All my condolences to the Turbinton's family and a funeral will be held on september 22, 2007 at 11 am at Our Lady of the Sea Catholic Church, 1835 St. Roch Ave, New Orleans.

Home of the Groove, your private pillow blog about new orleans, did a couple of great posts on Willie Tee. Have a look !

Willie Tee - Walkin' Up A One Way Street
http://www.box.net/shared/1m4c5agady

Did You See Arthur Lee Maye Hit That Ball ?

2007-08-14T11:41:00.005+02:00

Theme Time Radio Hour Special Baseball with our host Bob Dylan gave me a crazy passion about the ballgame... People may be find boring but they don't understand the sense of the game with a batter all alone encircled by nine guys obsessed about the ball. They don't feel the tragedy of the game when your teamates are on the bases and your knees are shakin' cause' you are the key of the inning.

Let's have a look about The Greatest Singing Athlete That Ever Lived... I'm talkin' about Arthur Lee Maye, famous baseball player and one of the best doo wop/r&b singers that I have ever heard. He was an outfielder for 13 years with good power, he could really hit that ball (94 home-runs in carrer!) and standing on the stage with his enjoyful voice at the same day during his minor league days. He gave an edge to baseball when he became a Major League player because "Baseball was my first love. I always said I could sing at 50, but I couldn't play baseball at 50".

He was one of men of the Jefferson High School Sound (South California) just sittin' behind Cleve Duncan, leader of The Penguins, Alex Hodge, a founding member of The Platters, his brother Gaynel Hodge of The Hollywood Flames and The Turks, Curtis Williams of The Hollywood Flames and The Penguins, Obie Jessie, Cornell Gunter, an original Platter and early-Coaster's lineup, and the legendary Richard Berry (Louie Louie's composer). What a crew ! They formed the Carmels during this era but there is no sound material... Is anyone has got better fish pond ? After that, there will be the Crowns, then, of course the Jayos on a Johnny Otis' album with covers exceptionnally good ("Gee") and a bunch of solo recordings.

With his pal Berry, they have written a bunch of good stuff typical of this magic period. Be recognizing to SpectroPop who re-discovered the outfielder of the Milwaukee Braves.

Career Stats : 13 years, 1288 games, 94 HR, 419 RBI for a batting average of .274. Led MLB with 44 Doubles in 1964. He put his career high in almost every categories with a AB of .304 in 1964 ... aka The Second Dead-Ball Era.

Arthur Lee Maye - Hey Pretty Girl
http://www.box.net/shared/rr211jnbe8

Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns - Don't You Know (I Love You)
http://www.box.net/shared/6jefv2q9fb

http://spectropop.com/ArthurLeeMaye/index.htm

http://baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=mayele01

Thai Beat A Go-Go Series

2007-08-09T11:29:00.000+02:00

Tracks of my tears #4

2006-07-15T09:34:00.004+02:00

"Quand je vais retourner sur la route, ce sera un nouvel Otis Redding" - Automne 1967

"Non, mec, ça va être mon premier numéro un. C'est la meilleure chanson que j'ai jamais enregistrée" Otis R. 1967

La tournée Stax/volt s'acheva en mars et tous les mods anglais avaient vu la Vierge: Otis Redding se cognant la main sur le coeur durant "My Girl"...Maintenant, ces rosbeefs ne juraient que par la soul - ce qui donnera le signal de toute la chose northern. Le Melody Maker n'en croyait pas ces yeux: Otis avait détrôné Elvis du trône du Meilleur Chanteur du Monde... Une couronne que le King garda durant dix ans! Something's gonna change... Et puis Otis avait réussi là où James avait échoué (bien qu'il n'ai jamais essayé) : le crossover ultime... Les Blancs l'avaient adopté. Ce n'était pas qu'un simple concours de circonstance: un Noir avait détrôné un Blanc...

C'était à Monterey que les choses évoluèrent. J'ai vu la vidéo du festival de Monterey 67 et j'en suis tombé sur le cul. Ce mec avec sa petite artillerie et ses musiciens costumés tout de vert vêtus alors que le psychédélisme explose au monde avaient anéanti toute la concurrence en cinq titres: Jefferson Airplane, Byrds, Canned Heat... Par sa voix, sa foi en son Art (ou en Soi ce qui revient à la même chose), ce gros noir au gros nez ferma le clapet de tout le monde...

Et puis, la Pop music suscitait des vocations. Otis voulait voler au dessus de la mêlée - en statue du Commandeur - et ne plus se voir confiner aux charts R&B, n'être admis que dans certains hôtels...

Dock of the Bay donc... On entendait la marée avec un Otis apaisé. Plus du tout les cuivres fievreux de "Shake" ou "Respect". Il posait sa voix sans pour autant en susciter moins. Il ne s'éraillait plus la voix comme lorsqu'il tentait de battre Sam & Dave à leurs propres jeux ("Ces enfoirés"). Il planait, osant la contemplation sur soi même (on se regarde, on se contemple au plus profond de soi-même et tous les remords/regrets accumulés depuis l'enfance se présentent sous nos yeux et pourtant il faut continuer à vivre sans se renier...) - alors que la planête rêvait "Dance To The music" de Sly et sa Family, "Born to Be Wild" de Steppenwolf, "Jumpin Jack Flash" des Stones, "Sunshine of Your Love" de Cream dans le juke box mondial - jusqu'au sifflement final. Y'a t-il un disque de 1967/1968 qui se termine de cette manière? Non. Tout le monde veut aller plus haut, plus loin mais personne ne se (re)posait de cette façon.

L'autre jour, j'étais au plan d'eau du Canada à Beauvais (cherchez l'erreur) avec des amis et je n'avais que cette chanson dans la caboche... Le Pacifique déroulant le tapis bleu azur où l'on ne sait où se termine l'horizon (où le ciel rencontre la terre...), le soleil se couche et les têtards gazouillent d'effroi sous les assauts de personnes bien intentionnées...

Mettant en boite Dock of the Bay le 07/12/67 avec Booker T. & The MG's... Mr Humble tenait à respecter jusqu'au bout ses engagements... Un engagement qui l'amena, avec les Bar-Kays l'autre groupe maison Stax, dans le Wisconsin... A 15h28, l'avion d'Otis pointa du nez dans le lac Monona...

Pour les funérailles, TOUT LE MONDE était là... Soul Clan, Johnnie Taylor et Joe Simon portaient le cerceuil et 4500 personnes s'agglutinaient autour. James Brown, dans un geste le refletant à la perfection, essaya jusqu'à la fin d'accompagner son frère de sang en corbillard mais la foule l'empêchait d'y arriver. Johnny Jenkins dit de cela "voilà ce qui arrive à un Nègre qui pense" faisant explicitement référence aux destinées semblables des désirs d'émancipations de Sam Cooke et Otis. Saviez-vous que c'est la CIA qui s'est chargé de rendre Lennon inoffensif? Qu'un Macca en a remplacé un autre à partir d'"Abbey Road"? Que l'on a retrouvé le corps d'ELVIS avec les rouflaquettes qui se décollaient...?

"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" atteignit les Numero Uno des charts R&B & Pop, une sortie posthume donc. Otis avait eu raison... Mais nous ne saurons jamais si les évènements eurent une importance prépondérante...

Ps: depuis, cette chanson est maintes et maintes fois reprises... Quelquefois, certains osent la jouer sans savoir siffler. Ah! Ah! Pardonne Mais N' Oublie Jamais...

Ps2: pour ceux que ça intéresse... William Bell a signé un hommage troublant (& trop conscient) à... qui vous savez... dans une chanson intitulée "A Tribute To A King".

Thanks Peter Guralnik et son indispensable Sweet Soul Music.

Tracks of my Tears #3

2006-05-28T08:31:00.002+02:00

Patti Austin - Earl
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Patti Austin - Only All The Time
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C'est toujours comme ça... On met le disque fébrilement, la bave aux lèvres, sur la platine tout en frétillant d'avance sur ce que les enceintes vont déverser ... Et là, c'est un tsunami... Comment l'époque a pu passer à côté de Patti Austin?!!!

A l'instar de la carrière de Maxine Brown, la faiblesse (peut-on parler de faiblesse lorsque une telle musique puisse être enregistrer?) d' Austin se trouvait en grosses lettres sur la tranche de réglisses fraîchement sorties des usines d'antan: CORAL. Non pas que le label soit une de ces entreprises dirigées par des gens du marketing... mais disons qu'il manquait une distribution rouleau compresseur afin d'inonder l'Amérique de pochettes gaufrées de Patti Austin.

Née à Harlem le 10 août 1950, Patti grandit dans un univers imprégné de musique: gospel et tout le toutim pour cette jeune fille. Autre ligne sur son jeune palmarès: la Patti, alors agée de sept ans, monte sur la scène de l'Apollo Theatre d'Harlem lors d'un show de Dinah Washington (qui fut sa marraine! et Quincy Jones était son parrain!!!). Deux années plus tard, elle enregistre son premier single pour RCA! Puis, à 15 ans, c'est le déluge - même l'Arche de Noé ne s'en sortirait pas - une vingtaine de chansons sont gravées pour Coral... Et entre la lignée pop qu'essayait de tracer la Motown pour séduire les masses blanches et la deep soul de Stax, Patti aligne les pépites les plus succulentes que les autres. La petite fille avoue bien "qu'elle n'avait pas vraiment d'opinion personelle" sur ce qu'elle chantait (à 15 ans! vous vous imaginez à sa place...), on ne peut que se laisser envouter par le panache qu'elle dégage. Du girl group"Earl" aux gros stompers typiques de la Northern Soul britannique en passant aux ballades sudistes soul, rien n'est à jeter et respecte le nouvel adage, "tout est jolie dans la Patti". Vos parents vous ont cachés l'existence du Père Noel... Mais ce n'est pas terminé! Vous pensiez être blindé... Vos Mamas and Papas vous ont aussi cachés Patti Austin!

Ps: Jouant ses grands seigneurs, Body&Soul ont envoyé le master de ce disque à Patti compilant les 45 tours pour Coral: "Je ne savais plus qu'on avait fait tant de trucs. En l'écoutant, je me suis demandé si cela me rappelait-il quelque chose? Non!'"

Ps2: Il serait exagéré d'admettre que Patti n'ait pas eu de succès... Disons que ces enregistrements pour Coral sont complètement oubliés...

Tracks of my Tears #2

2006-05-13T00:25:00.002+02:00

Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up
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"Tighten Up"... De l'or en barre... Aucune soirée dite "réussie" ne devrait s'en passer... Sinon, passez votre chemin, il n'y a rien à boire...euh à voir (ce qui revient à la même chose). Une basse aphrodisiaque tout en élasticité et en rondeur dégoulinantes et puis... tout d'un coup! deux petits accords de six cordes en boucle jusqu'aux claps de la fin... Et SUBITO!

"HI EVERYBODY, I'M ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS FROM HOUSTON, TEXAS.
WE NOT ONLY SING BUT WE DANCE AS GOOD AS WE WALK"

Gros big-up à un disc-jockey prétendant que rien ne pouvait sortir de bon de l'endroit où le Président Kennedy fut assassiné... Une chanson démentielle sans aucun couplet, un machin ad lib que n'aurait pas renié "The Hardest Working Man In Show Buisness"... Ce n'est pas encore les syncopes habituelles du funk qui viendront mais "Tighten Up" se pose déjà, en "fier", précurseur de la chose....

Mais revenons à la genèse de "Tighten Up"...
Le groupe se forme à Houston donc en 1955 sous le nom des Drells (groupe doowop). Archie Bell à 11 ans et se tient à ses côtés ses shoolfriends Willie Pernell, James Wise, Cornelius Fuller, L.C Watts & Gerald Atkins. Chacun tenant sa place au chant. A la naissance des sixties, le groupe devient un quartet: Bell/Wise/ Billy Butler & Joe Cross. Skipper Lee Frazier devient le manager après les avoir vus à tous ces tremplins/concours rock qu'ils gagnent régulièrement.Un premier single est pressé ("She's My Woman, She's My Girl" chez East-West en 1966). Frazier, y croyant dur comme fer, monte son propre label Ovide rien que pour eux... Le groupe usine sévère... jusqu'une lettre qui changera la vie d'Archie. Une lettre de l'Oncle Sam le réquisitionnant pour son service obligatoire... Surtout que le Vietnam se profile et Archie se retrouve susceptible d'y participer... Les choses se compliquent et Bell ne fait plus ding dong... Complètement dévasté, pain in his heart, Archie commence à se bouger le cul... _ What are you doing?! demande Billy Butler _ I'm doing the Tighten Up! rétorque Archie. Une danse improbable histoire d'extérioriser ses démons...

"Tighten Up" (face b "Dog Eat Dog") sort, alors qu'Archie est déjà à Kaiserslautern pour son service militaire de deux ans, en décembre 1967. Toutes les boites de Houston le diffusent et devient un énorme hit régional. Trop gigantesque pour Ovide sans promotion particulière... Atlantic s'en empare pour une MASSIVE distribution... jusqu'à la commotion cérébrale de ses responsables décidant d'inverser les faces A et B... avant de revenir à un pressage mettant en valeur "Tighten Up".

Tandis que "Tighten..." déboule tout sur son passage (Number One R&B & POP!), Bell se morfond dans sa piteuse caverne caserne en plein hiver de la mitteleuropa... Pour capitaliser ce succès, Atlantic demande le plus rapidement possible un LP... Miraculeusement, le manager arrive à caser pour Archie un week-end de libre. Archie devait faire l'aller dans la nuit du vendredi au samedi et ainsi enregistrer durant toute la journée du samedi pour ensuite faire le retour à un moment du dimanche pour être au garde à vous à la caserne le lundi matin! Pour coucher assez de titres pour un LP, Ovide a fait appel son house band: les TSU Toronados... Le problème, c'est qu'il est plus que présent... Enfin, pas non plus le problème ultime, puisque l'album se classe, à partir d'avril 1968, pendant 22 semaines dans les charts R&B Us avec un pic à la 15e position. Mais majeur handicap, Archie ne goûte pas aux joies du succès et le groupe est contraint de tourner sans lui... ce qui aura pour effet de rendre frigide les promoteurs (certains n'hésitaient pas à mentir sur l'identité des musiciens sur les flyers affirmant qu'Archie était bel et bien là puisque le public ignore leurs visage - pas de web à cette époque -).

Le deuxième LP (une réussite) se fera dans la même urgence... Avec cette fois-çi aux manettes, Kenny Gamble et Leon Huff qui vont se faire les mains pour leur fameux Philly Sound (d'ailleurs tous les musiciens sont de l'écurie Gamble & Huff)... Reprises d'Otis avec Archie faisant de la chanson sienne - "I left my home in Houston..." et de Curtis Mayfield et ses Impressions au programme tout en tentant de refaire le coup du "Tighten Up" ("I Can't Stop Dancing" et "Do The Choo Choo")... Mais cela est une autre histoire...

Depuis Archie Bell a recruté de nouveaux Drells qui lui disent que "Tighten Up" est "la première chanson qu'ils ont apprise". Archie approuve: "C'est vraiment gratifiant. Cela vous permet d'aller de l'avant. C'est un fort sentiment et très surprenant à la fois, vous savez, puisque je ne pensais pas que ça se passerait comme cela." C'est homme est un Saint...

PS: Thanks to Charles Waring pour ces liner notes référence...

Tracks of my Tears #1

2006-05-05T13:36:00.002+02:00

Maxine Brown - Little Girl Lost
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Maxine Brown - I Don't Need Anything
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Et nous commençons l'exhumation des pépites oubliées par la soulwoman Maxine Brown. Parlons-en de la Maxine... Née le 18 août 1939 à Kingstree (South Carolina), Mrs Brown a le parcours typique des jeunes filles du sud à la peau basanée... Comme bon nombre de filles de sa génération, elle chante dès son plus jeune âge à l'église.
Déboulant à NY City à sept ans, elle se fait le larynx dans des groupes gospels appelés les Royaltones ou les Manhattans.
Sa carrière décolle lorsqu'elle rencontre le producteur Tony Bruno et signe avec Nomar... Les choses s'accélèrent... L'association entre Brown et Bruno donne "Funny" mais surtout "All In My Mind" se classant à la 2e place des charts R&B et 19e des charts Pop de l'année 1964. Smash Total! Le label se retrouve au dépourvu pour assurer la carrière de Brown et Maxine part pour ABC-Paramount plus apte à promouvoir ces futurs succès. Mais, durant une année, aucun de ces singles n'atteindra les charts... Alors, Maxine déménage, encore, mais cette fois pour un label moins prestigieux nommé Wand... Retour à la case départ en quelque sorte...

So What's Going On?! Comment une chanteuse de cette trempe capable d'aligner des chansons d'un registre deep soul à un genre beaucoup plus upbeat (plus pop quoi), dotée de compositions des plus grands

(Bacharach/David -!-, Goffin/King responsables de "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" des Shirelles, "The Loco-Motion" de Little Eva, "Chains" des Cookies que les Beatles reprendront à leurs débuts, "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman d'Aretha -!!- et Ed Townsend le compositeur de For Your Love -!!!-) avec en prime une chanson ("Baby Cakes") produite par Otis Redding en personne dans les locaux Fame de Muscle Shoals!!! n'a pas pu mettre dans le mille? Le succès qui allume toutes les loupiotes d'un flipper?

J'entends, par là, plus qu'un simple succès d'estime pour apparition dans des compilations démentes soul... Ce qui n'est pas rien...

Simple intuition: baladée de labels en labels (et certains benêts prétendent encore que les majors sont une plaie pour la musique... Il y a effectivement des baffes qui se perdent...), la locomotive Brown n'a jamais pu prendre sa vitesse de croisière. Et puis, il faut bien quelqu'un qui se dévoue pour essuyer les plâtres... La Pop music regorge d'injustices dans ce genre: Stooges & NY Dolls pour le punkrock, tous les héros oubliés de Nick Tosches pour l'explosion rock'n'roll et osons, Jon Spencer et Brian Jonestown Massacre pour tous ces groupes dits garage de nos jours... & Maxine pour Aretha et toutes ses copines... Ses premiers singles datant de 1963 et son plus gros succès en 1964, la Maxine a trois ans d'avance sur Aretha Boudine (ce qui représente des années-lumières en popmusic)...
On peut y voir que Maxine Brown soit la première soulwoman (en solo s'entend) recensée... ouvrant une voie pavée, charpentée sans encombre pour Aretha, Dionne, Etta, Diana...

Pourtant...Tout est là. Les chansons sur ce que cela fait d'être une fille... "Ce soir je serais la plus belle pour aller danser"... Ouais, c'est exactement ça. "Prends-moi fort dans tes bras... et jure moi que tu ne me laisseras jamais tombée..." Petite fille perdue voyant son reflet courbé dans l'iris de son boyfriend... Le souvenir des "Yesterday's Kisses"... "Oh! Mon Dieu! Je Suis Amoureuse!" C'était Maxine Brown. A vous les studios.